How long could you stop doing your job before you got fired? Watched Office Space last night

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I went like 7 months with just attending meetings

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If you time it with going on the bench, probably a couple months

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Without attending meetings? Would get pinged right away.

Attending meetings but not doing any work? Maybe 3 weeks

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