she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product

Aha! I've smoothed over any mistakes (none counted as deeply stupid), I show up quite regularly (although I may leave a little willy nilly), and I never bloat projects -- my sort of laziness trims them, in fact.

Okay, right. Back to work.

Speaking of mistakes, is "devision" a nifty new form of "division" or did a mistake on some stuff I put online make it past seven editors and merrily into print?

I'm thinking it's probably the latter.

Well, at least it's "division" on the web version now. Oy.

wrt Suela's ex-cow, something in my brain is kicking at me very hard to distinguish between coasting and actual fucking-up. I suspect this is entirely because I do so much of the former.

Calli, it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.

I've been lazy at work this last year and a half (ever since I got my own office and my boss can't look through his window to see what's on my screen.)

Unfortunatly, I've proven to be very quick and efficient whenever there's a crisis to solve. And I kinda' like the crisises, as they make the day go faster.

Maybe I should be pretending my regular work is a crisis too? Except then I'd have no time for b.org.

it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.

Them and me, both.

The in-character way to address this is to knock her socks off for three weeks and then get lazy again.

Hell, I did something to knock my boss's socks off two years ago (tear down and rebuild the website) and I'm still coasting on the fumes. I got nominated for "Employee of the Year" this turn -- only to lose it to the student-worker because she was going in the Peace Corps. Though, in fairness, I did squat last year.

But that is me -- throw myself at a major project, prove just how freaking valuable I am to the organization, then it's back to three months of web surfing on the company dime.

But obviously revealing too much of my potential is part of my problem.

I'm with you. Problem is that it's a poorly-kept secret that I'm too damn smart for my position. My boss outright told me that he wants me to find a better job after the BIG HONKING RE-ACCREDITATION CYCLE is over with, and that he might fire me if that's what it takes to get me out the door. Which would be stupid, because if he fired me he'd be utterly clueless.

It's amazing that despite the fact that I don't keep his calendar or do any of that sort of "assistant" crap, if I weren't around he'd be farther up the creek than if he lost his PDA.

it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.

This should be a scifi movie. Each of the seven coasting editors has part of an LJ entry, and the hero must collect them all before.... I dunno - something evil is caused by Gary Oldman.

She might as well send home a note that says "she's very smart, but she's not working up to her potential".

Pinned to the front of her shirt, natch.

the hero must collect them all before.... I dunno - something evil is caused by Gary Oldman.

Gary Oldman threatens to privatize the journal the editors work for.

Soon to become a Movie of the Week on the Bureaucracy channel.