First time working in an office with some autonomy, having only worked retail before, I couldn’t believe how many hours of the day I did nothing. Sometimes had meetings about future meetings.
An underdiscussed part of modern capitalism is how low-wage workers are often micromanaged every minute they’re on the clock, while many high-wage jobs come with hours of unstructured computer time where no one really cares what you’re doing as long as the work gets done.