How busy do you get at work - do you work every hour?

[Zeze]

Poll:

Do you literally don't breathe easy until it's time to go home? Or you get a window of an hour here and there?

Or do you have an easy job that keeps you free more than working?

 

[IronWing]

Every thought of non-work while at work is theft from my employer.

 

[momeNt]

I sneeze with my eyes open.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Poll:

Do you literally don't breathe easy until it's time to go home? Or you get a window of an hour here and there?

Or do you have an easy job that keeps you free more than working?

How many hours do you work? I'm guessing little since you post 500 threads a day.

 

[Zeze]

How many hours do you work? I'm guessing little since you post 500 threads a day.

You underestimate how little effort it takes to post here and there during garbage semi-relevant meetings.

 

[purbeast0]

You underestimate how little effort it takes to post here and there during garbage semi-relevant meetings.

Effort != time. You asked about time, and it takes time to post, regardless of the effort.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Totally varies since I'm on projects for different clients.

Different clients have different industries with different work cultures - and 9 times out of 10 we are reliant upon them to get our work done (e.g. we need information from them in order to compile our information/configuration). We have busy times, and we have idiotic projects too with a ridiculous scope of work and go-live date.

 

[Zeze]

Totally varies since I'm on projects for different clients.

Different clients have different industries with different work cultures - and 9 times out of 10 we are reliant upon them to get our work done (e.g. we need information from them in order to compile our information/configuration). We have busy times, and we have idiotic projects too with a ridiculous scope of work and go-live date.

Answer the question buddy.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Answer the question buddy.

Fine, I twiddle my thumbs for 7 hours and reply to emails for about 1 hour over the course of the day....

Unless it's go-live week in which case I'm working 16 hour days telling everyone else to fix their shit. Have you fixed your shit yet? How about now? Ok I'll remind you again to fix your shit in an hour.

 

[Red Storm]

If anyone answers this thread then it is reasonable to assume they aren't working 100% of the time.

Just look at the Members Online Now list. We're all either unemployed, retired, too young for employment, or slackers on the job.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a pretty cushy job. NOC. As long as everything is working it's quiet. But when shit hits the fan, it may as well be a hippo taking a dump in a jet engine. It can get really crazy but that happens maybe once a year. Either a huge fibre cut, or massive winter storm etc. Fibre cuts happen all the time so most arn't a big deal, it has to be a pretty serious one for us to get super busy. The winter storms are the worse as the damage is going to be spread over a large region. Lot of knocked power lines, fibre, copper, that kind of thing. So not only do we have to deal with sending portable generators to all our sites to make sure the batteries don't die, but we also have to deal with all the communication lines that may be down. Whether it's data circuits or individual phone lines, or our own transport links etc. Then we get flooded with customer calls on top of that because of their circuits not working etc.

The best part of my job though is that it's shift work. I'm off right now, I only start Thursday. It's a nice perk of the job. I would hate going back to an 8x5 job again.

 

[AdamK47]

I'm so incredibly busy at work that it leaves absolutely no time for me to goof off on this forum.

 

[BoomerD]

Work?

 

[AdamK47]

Work?

Are you retired?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Are you retired?

He was one of the foremans when they were building Noah's Ark, so yeah he's retired.

 

[AdamK47]

All this time I had no idea he was retired. It must be nice.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

On average I work about 1-2 hours a day and I hate it. I would rather have something more interesting to keep me busy.

 

[Zeze]

On average I work about 1-2 hours a day and I hate it. I would rather have something more interesting to keep me busy.

How's the pay.

I had a gig before that was too ez but paid very well. I didn't mind it much. Long lunches and I can always browse crap on my phone

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's kinda how my job is. It can be boring, but the pay is good and the hours are awesome. I wish more jobs would be shift work, you put in the same amount of hours in a given time period but get way more days off. The downside of my job is it's not really secure. Any desk/office job can be outsourced, relocated or automated at the drop of a hat. The only way I would quit this job is if something that is guaranteed to be more secure and pays the same came up. Seems there's no such thing as job security these days so no point in stressing too much over it. Will ride it for as long as I can.

 

[Rumpltzer]

We're completely overloaded at my workplace. It's not a matter of getting done each day; it's a matter of when I've had enough and get to a suitable stopping point.

We put in at least nine hours a day. I always give more, and it's not rare to spend an entire weekend day or most of my off-Friday in the lab.

Despite this, my dickweed of a supervisor (eight years my junior, but he's just the guy who signs off on my time and has the unfortunate position of telling me about my "annual performance") tells me that I'm a "satisfactory performer" and that my work is of little value in the big picture of the company. I work mostly on DARPA and internal research projects and I'm a star performer, so his assessment is short-sighted at best.

I love my work; it's a lot of fun, and it's interesting and rewarding from a customer perspective (teh gubment loves what I can do for them). The people and the "company" suck.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

How's the pay.

I had a gig before that was too ez but paid very well. I didn't mind it much. Long lunches and I can always browse crap on my phone

Average for the industry (50k Help Desk in SoCal) which is enough to keep me relatively okay as someone with no family but I'm young and I wouldn't want to go my whole life like this. However, I do know some people that would love to be in my position forever. Crazy.

 

[Exterous]

All this time I had no idea he was retired. It must be nice.

If only there was some sort of clue - like his avatar or something

 

[WelshBloke]

My fitbit tells me I've taken 20000+ steps and walked 17km on a shift so pretty busy.