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I want to firmly establish that I do not work very hard, and I am completely unwilling to change that. I want him to know that he is free to establish metrics to judge my performance by, but I will not alter my behavior in any way to meet them. I also want to ask for a raise and more time off. What is the best way to convey this to him?

I want to firmly establish that I do not work very hard, and I am completely unwilling to change that. I want him to know that he is free to establish metrics to judge my performance by, but I will not alter my behavior in any way to meet them. I also want to ask for a raise and more time off. What is the best way to convey this to him?

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"Lemme level with you, Dave. May I call you Dave? I don't even know if that's your name, I started my spiel before you got a chance to introduce yourself. It doesn't really matter. So, Dave, I just wanna let you know where I'm at. I've got a niche here. That is to say I don't work particularly hard, and to be honest I'm not interested in changing that. But I do do one thing around here that no one else can replicate. If that's not good enough for you and you decide you wanna go in another direction, I understand the position you're in. Just please understand my position: I'm not a people person, I'm not a go getter, I'm not really anything other than a guy with a niche. So I won't be sharing any details of my thing with anyone at any point under any circumstances. If you were to decide that me not 'being on board' or whatever is a problem and make some changes, I respect that that. Because I respect high risk gamblers. And if you badly enough need to feed your ego to show a little control over us regular folks lives that you're willing to gamble that you can figure out my thing before not having it run smooth costs you your job, hell I understand. But here I am going on about all this stuff you don't understand, not on your big exciting first day. Well, anyways I don't wanna take up anymore of your time. Good talk, Dave. I'm glad I thought to call it. See you at the picnic." [mouth clicky sound double finger guns and leave]