lazy

Work isn't all that much fun, so most of us try to develop a series of shortcuts to get ourselves through the day that much faster. Sometimes these can get a bit out of hand, look ridiculous, ruin other people's good work or become a nuisance, but hey, that's the way of the laziness blade. This world is chock full of "not my job" moments of advanced laziness.

"Hey, all you told me to do was change the sign, it's not my problem that now it just says "Sign Changed." For every person who's good at their job, it seems like there's someone out there who's incredibly good at not doing their job. The resulting "not my job" moments are a testament to buck-passers everywhere.

Man, oh man, this truck driver sounds like a lazy nightmare. Fortunately, one of the guys who was exposed to his BS, had enough, and got a state trooper involved. From there, the state trooper had no problem writing the truck driver multiple tickets for faking an injury to get out of the job he was being paid to do. 

We live in a society where it's pretty easy to pass the buck, not proofread children's books, and paint traffic lines directly over roadkill. It leads to some impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments. But, y'know, what can you do? Try a little harder? That's out of the question.

Sometimes it would take too much effort to do something the right way, so we resort to stunningly unprofessional "not my job" moments. We can't say we're proud of them, but boy do they save a whole lot of time. Sometimes it's actually harder to do it wrong. As long as there are annoying bosses and Friday afternoons, we'll have wonderfully incompetent "not my job" moments.

Sometimes, folks just can't be bothered to see that one job through as it was intended to be done. Maybe they're in a rush, or they just don't care. Check out more attempts that slipped down the slope of failure over here.

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the laziest attempts people have made at being helpful. If you're going to try to help someone out, don't half ass it...go all the way. 

Hey, if someone tells you to install a toilet seat lid, it's not like it's your job to install the right sized one, and it's totally not your job to check and see if it's upside down or not. Here are some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments from the world of the just lazy enough.

This fun AskReddit thread takes a look at various workers that discovered shortcuts in their various lines of work to accomplish jobs the easiest ways possible. It's remarkable what kinds of paths can be opened up by someone motivated by the burning desire to not have to work too hard. 

We're always impressed by the work of the lazy and negligent. It gives us impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments, ranging from telephone poles in the middle of roads to roadkill-shaped gaps traffic lines. Blessed be the sweet hot laziness that leads to these wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments.

Sometimes laziness inspires acts of pure, admirable genius. Take this naval officer who quite simply couldn't be bothered to give a dang, and thus went about pulling off the kind of lazy move that most anyone can appreciate. Man sounds like a true visionary. 

This fun thread had people describe times they witnessed lazy people be tasked with the notoriously difficult jobs, and from there, dig up the easiest ways to perform those hard tasks. The mind is an impossibly complex machine, and one that can craft ingenious ways for accomplishing tough tasks, through the use of shortcuts. This thread brought to mind that one time a lazy navy officer ended up being a lazy genius, while on the job.

This is easily one of the most bizarre TIFU's we've read. Sounds like lazy dude was prone toward making messes around his room, and wanted to continue his lazy lifestyle so badly that he left his cleaning duties up to the ants. Well, those ants had to find a place to crash. And oh boy, they did: within his keyboard. 

A true American hero. You know you've made it when you're directing a mob of people to steer a giant mass of steel for the sole purpose of getting the sun out of your face, while you go about enjoying your bagel. All in a day's work. 

This student decided to fake a flat tire so that their lazy classmates in the group project would fail. Just the kind of pro petty revenge that deserves some high marks.