The Labor Aristocrats

There are times when you have to commit to a hard job. I calculate the tasks that must be done to achieve it and the time required, and when I imagine the hurdles standing in my way, my stomach starts to ache and I feel nauseous.

Also, I can't organize the tasks I need to do, and I end up going in circles in my head thinking about what I should be doing, falling into a dead end of thought; it feels like I'm thinking about something, but I'm not thinking about anything at all, and despite not moving my hands at all, I get quite exhausted.

Then, I despair at the progress of the tasks I should be doing and reach for snacks due to stress, and the area around my desk gets dirty with snack crumbs. On the other hand, even though the amount of work doesn't decrease, only my weight increases, exponentially. It would be nice if only my salary increased exponentially.

I think many salarymen work while accumulating a considerable amount of stress like the above.

On the other hand, there are also salarymen who, while being the same wage earners, are good at appearing to work stressfully while in an environment that is close to stress-free.

If you go to the office district, I think there are tons of middle-aged men wandering around looking idle during lunch time. Even if they aren't middle-aged men, there are plenty of young people with similar gloomy faces hanging around, wandering aimlessly through the office district at lunchtime.

As for these guys, for the person themselves, work at the office is a series of endurance.
If it's their normal work, the first thing they should do is use the ninja art of playing dead to pretend they are working, and while being careful not to let any sparks fly at them, they escape from troublesome jobs and tasks. If they are escaping, the passage of time feels slow, and they open their smartphones in the smoking room or restroom, watch videos while concentrating on that screen to escape reality, and just wait for time to pass.
They are doing such hard tasks (lol).

Such labor aristocrats, though, sometimes have sparks fly at them at work, get involved in troublesome tasks, and look like they are working. It's hard to get people to believe it, though.

It's not interesting to talk about their ecology, so I want to leave a memo here because I witnessed a technician-type labor aristocrat.

This technician-type labor aristocrat who is good at slacking off at work often speaks actively in meetings. While clumsy people make bad remarks and have their words twisted and are cornered, unlike such fools, the technician-type labor aristocrat is different. First, they put into words the work they can do in advance and declare that they will complete the tasks they mentioned themselves. That wins the trust of those around them. However, there is a part here that deceives those around them, and they do not get involved in any tasks other than the ones they declared themselves.

They limit the scope of what they can do, and while they reliably complete tasks within that limited scope, they maintain a stance of not caring at all about any task that goes even one millimeter outside of that.

Since you might not get the image just from this, I want to write about concrete examples passionately on another occasion (lol).