If your job is to ticket people who are already breaking a parking law, then you waiting to catch someone one second after the meter flips is NOT your job. They’re failing to ticket cars that are not moving for hours in favor of randomly targeting specific cars. But if you do your job by just waiting until you can do a specific task rather than looking for something that can be handled at that moment, then I don’t know what to say. But if I stared at something that would eventually become work rather than looking for something that is currently work, I’d be fired. 🤷‍♀️