# Are you REALLY working?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/are-you-really-working/240536>\
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**Created:** [October 3, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/are-you-really-working/240536 "2007-10-03T19:16:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![chacelp](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/chacelp/32/7336_2.png) [@chacelp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chacelp)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/are-you-really-working/240536/1 "2007-10-03T19:16:09Z")

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Yesterday I was walking down the hallway at my job to the elevator and I saw a guy playing paper football at his desk. There are countless times that I see people just hanging around talking for hours it seems. So my question to all of you is out of a standard 8 hour workday how many of those hours do you actually spend “working”. This really doesn’t apply if you do freelance and work for yourself because you can work a lot and get it done so you can have more time off later in the week or whatever. When it is a corporate job people tend to slack off and milk the pooch if you know what I mean…