How Much Work Do You Do at Work?

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BatmanNate

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Jul 12, 2000
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Originally posted by: Spac3d
You people are bastards!:| Last summer when I worked for the government, I did more than 8h a day ... and didn't even get overtime pay. Oh well, I guess you have to work hard when you are a temporary employee and they could fire you any day they pleased:disgust:

At least tax dollars were well spent on my hard work.

Did you just use the terms "hard work" and "the government" in the same post?


BWUuuu hah hah ha hah hah HAH

:beer:
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: Spac3d
You people are bastards!:| Last summer when I worked for the government, I did more than 8h a day ... and didn't even get overtime pay. Oh well, I guess you have to work hard when you are a temporary employee and they could fire you any day they pleased:disgust:

At least tax dollars were well spent on my hard work.
It's a known fact that contractors have to do the regular employees' work. :) So by default, you work twice as hard, but get treated half as well (in most cases).
 

Ausm

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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I only need to work when the people who work for me can't figure out the problem...

Typical work day

1.5 implementing projects for my work team

1.0 answering stupid questions

1.0 meetings

2 hrs for lunch

The rest the time I am surfing the net.

Ausm
 

chin311

Diamond Member
Feb 27, 2003
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Originally posted by: Spac3d
You people are bastards!:| Last summer when I worked for the government, I did more than 8h a day ... and didn't even get overtime pay. Oh well, I guess you have to work hard when you are a temporary employee and they could fire you any day they pleased:disgust:

At least tax dollars were well spent on my hard work.

ha, i am a temp. for the goverment, and read my above post :p

 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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for about 10.5 hours I work hard. I don't have time to slack off at work. (11.5 hour shift, 30 min lunch, and 2 15min breaks)
 

Maverick

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depends on the day. Some days out of my 8 hours I may only do about 2. Some days its a full 8. Probably averages out to about 4 to 5 since most of the days there isn't a whole lot to do.
 

sciencetoy

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Oct 10, 2001
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Wow, I'm going to go out and become an employee. I'm one of the owners and I'm always working - like now, it may not look like work but I'm on hold with 2 different tech vendors and waiting for whichever picks up first. I consider this a "break" because I've been doing payroll since about 5:30 AM (seven hours straight, new projects, new employees) and I'm eating lunch here, PBJ, for the curious. THEN I'll get dressed and go to the office - I'm on the computer at home.

 

Geekbabe

Moderator Emeritus<br>Elite Member
Oct 16, 1999
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www.theshoppinqueen.com
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I am tireless in my pursuit to achive excellence at my job,constantly thinking of new ways to improve performance so that I might reflect positively upon my boss:)

So in other words, your boss posts here, right? :D

Lol,I just thrive on challenge and actually love it when my unit does well:)
 

AstIsis

Senior member
Jan 18, 2003
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I am always at work since I can do so from home. As for actual hours, ~ 10-12 daily including conference calls.
 

benliong

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Jun 25, 2000
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I'm here basically 9-5 at the lab. So I'm here 8 hours minus lunch.

Real work hours really varies. Sometimes we have some much work to do that I have to stay till 8. But typical day I'd be doing like 4-5 hours of work. The rest is just posting and "spacing out"
 

Spac3d

Banned
Jul 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Spac3d
You people are bastards!:| Last summer when I worked for the government, I did more than 8h a day ... and didn't even get overtime pay. Oh well, I guess you have to work hard when you are a temporary employee and they could fire you any day they pleased:disgust:

At least tax dollars were well spent on my hard work.
It's a known fact that contractors have to do the regular employees' work. :) So by default, you work twice as hard, but get treated half as well (in most cases).
That is exactly it. Only cool part about that job is that they keep on calling me back to work for them... without even applying for the job:Q The pay was better than all of my friends had too for a summer job, but I don't think I am going to go back.

 

Turkey22

Senior member
Nov 28, 2001
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Yeah I'm posting from work right now.... Depends on if you consider supervising the computer lab that I'm based out of work or not. I usually work for an hour in the morning then sit around here for a while, during that time supervising the lab and answering stupid questions. Then I'll take an extra long lunch, come back and surf and supervise some more. Of course though when it's busy and I have important stuff to do I work 55minutes out of evry hour.