A popular TikTokker has made the bold claim that office workers do ‘jack s***’ and said he had to quit his desk job out of boredom.
Anthony Voulgaris, who has almost 600,000 followers, posted a rant online last week claiming that office workers actually do very little.
“Here’s a controversial opinion for you. I really believe that office workers, at least 90 percent of them, don’t do anything at all. They do jacks***,” he said.
“Look, maybe they send a few emails, they do a little work, but not a lot.”
Mr Voulgaris claimed that many office workers fool themselves when they think ‘their job is hard’, and admitted that when he worked in a corporate role he walked for four hours every day.
Despite the harsh statements, Mr Voulgaris claimed the comments were not made ‘out of judgement’ but rather out of ‘respect’.
“Well done, that’s how you should live your life,” he said.
To further substantiate his claims, Mr Voulgaris said a friend had just sent him a reply to an old message saying: ‘Sorry, I didn’t respond over the holidays, but I’m back at work so I have time to to respond’.
Popular TikTokker Anthony Voulgaris (pictured) claimed that office workers are doing virtually no work
Mr Voulgaris claimed he quit an office job because he was so bored.
“I would harass my bosses for more work,” he said.
“And they’d say, ‘Don’t worry, man, you’ve only been here five months.’
‘Have you only been here five months? Give me more work!’
He said he wasn’t busy and took long walks to pass the time, while his bosses didn’t even notice.
Fellow TikTokers admitted that they could identify themselves.
‘How dare you? Watching this from the office,” one person joked.
“Most corporate jobs consist of a bunch of people using a lot of pretentious language to make simple tasks like shuffling papers and sending emails seem important,” says another.
While some of those who responded to Mr Voulgaris’ post agreed that they had little to do at office jobs, others said the work was ‘relentless’.
Shez (pictured) listed a number of disadvantages to working from home, dividing commentators on whether the practice should continue
‘The further you go, the less actual work you do. It’s just meetings, buzzwords and talking about doing things,” was another observation.
“I’ve noticed that in every company I work in, 20 to 30 percent of the people seem to be doing all the productive work and the remaining 70 percent are CRUISING,” wrote another.
However, the easy office job was not everyone’s experience.
“I want one of these ‘I have no work to do’ office jobs. My job is not difficult, but it is absolutely brutal,” one person wrote.
‘At my last office job I didn’t do anything for DAYS. And now I have a new job and it’s just non-stop. There is no middle ground with business,” said another.
‘Where do people find these office jobs where you don’t have enough tasks??? I want one! I’m always pushed over capacity and end up in the doctor’s office.’
It comes after Sydney TikTokker Shez branded working from home a “failed social experiment” in another divisive video on Monday.
More than a third of Aussies are still unemployed post-Covid, despite 82 percent of bosses admitting they would prefer staff back in the office full-time.
Shez even went so far as to label WFH as unproductive.
“You can’t tell me you’re more productive when you work from home,” she began.
“Be honest with yourself: are you really working or are you more productive by folding your laundry?”
Shez labeled WFH a “company culture killer” and “productive” water cooler office chats.
“There is absolutely nothing like going to someone’s desk and asking them a question that can be answered in two seconds,” she said.