--- title: (comic) Full potential | daily.dev description: A workplace comic strip humorously depicting an employee claiming to apply their 'full potential' to avoiding work, even on nights and weekends. The joke plays... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-full-potential-uzwq0uswa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: (comic) Full potential | daily.dev og:description: A workplace comic strip humorously depicting an employee claiming to apply their 'full potential' to avoiding work, even on nights and weekends. The joke plays... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-full-potential-uzwq0uswa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uZwq0UsWA.png og:image:alt: (comic) Full potential og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # (comic) Full potential **[Work Chronicles](https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles)** · 1 min read · 36 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A workplace comic strip humorously depicting an employee claiming to apply their 'full potential' to avoiding work, even on nights and weekends. The joke plays on corporate language around productivity and effort. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@petermrozek** · 2 upvotes > Oh, when I'm holding back, it's when the company's holding back as well - in terms of payments. 😉 I want to do honest work for honest pay. Is that really that high of a requirement? I don't need it to be ahead of the market, I need it to not be behind it. **@kavyagupta1529** · 0 upvotes > Why is it always that the employee needs to "reach full potential" without getting the honest pay 😂 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [\(comic\) Worked hard last week](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-worked-hard-last-week-1nahai9vl) · Work Chronicles · 35 upvotes · 0 comments - [\(comic\) Flexible working hours](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-flexible-working-hours-uj5xgqerj) · Work Chronicles · 63 upvotes · 4 comments - [\(comic\) Greatest strength](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-greatest-strength-zxqm0x4af) · Work Chronicles · 39 upvotes · 2 comments - [\(comic\) Deep work](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-deep-work-s0vqci0lx) · Work Chronicles · 40 upvotes · 3 comments - [\(comic\) How to be more productive](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-how-to-be-more-productive-obozjquyx) · Work Chronicles · 41 upvotes · 4 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-full-potential-uzwq0uswa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"(comic) Full potential","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/comic-full-potential-uzwq0uswa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/comic-full-potential-uzwq0uswa"},"datePublished":"2026-07-28T16:17:57.523Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:04:07.172Z","description":"A workplace comic strip humorously depicting an employee claiming to apply their 'full potential' to avoiding work, even on nights and weekends. 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