Godhood Through Slacking Off: I Win at Work Without Lifting a Finger

[Urban workplace + System + anti-rat-race + lighthearted wish fulfillment + career growth]

Five minutes before quitting time, the supervisor suddenly announced: “Nobody’s leaving until all three proposals are finished.”

His probation period wasn’t even over, and his landlord was already asking for rent. Lin Chen was just about to resign himself to his fate when a notification suddenly rang in his ear.

[Anti-Rat-Race Godhood System successfully bound.]

[Get paid to slack off for 1 minute, earn 1 point.]

[Work overtime voluntarily or take the blame for someone else for 1 minute, lose 10 points.]

[5,000 points can be exchanged for 100,000 yuan.]

From that day on, while his coworkers stayed up late posting about it on social media, he clocked out on time. When the supervisor dumped lousy work on everyone, he finished the proposal in ten minutes. While the office rat raced to claim credit, he simply brought the evidence to the weekly meeting.

Everyone expected Lin Chen to get fired. Instead, the client specifically requested him, the director promoted him in front of everyone, and the awful projects nobody wanted somehow came to life in his hands, one after another.

Lin Chen was only against one thing: working for free, playing along with a charade, and making employees take the blame when things went wrong. When a job really was urgent, he still took responsibility, but overtime pay, credit, bonuses, and comp time were all non-negotiable.

Later, he went from the most inconspicuous probationary employee to leading a team, saving a factory, and setting up a joint production line. The people who once told him, “Young people should learn to suffer more,” finally couldn’t sit still.

“You’re slacking off every day, so how are you still coming in first?”

Lin Chen glanced at the time and picked up his backpack.

“It’s six. We’ll talk tomorrow.”