Comment by butler14

My first ever job was a placement during university -- like a year in industry.

It was a regular-joe IT support job at an eLearning company (if they still exist).

The FD walked past me one day, having just left what was clearly a deeply uncomfortable meeting.

He stopped in his tracks and asked, quite abruptly, why I didn't ever seem to look busy. I replied - with the arrogance of a cocky 20 year old - that it was because, right now, everything is working as it should. Nothing is broken and people are working and productive, which is because of the work of the IT department.

The company later become insolvent and was dissolved. So it turns out it might have been him who should have been busier, and he was just taking it out on me.