Working long hours
05-13-2010, 10:53 AM
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My work is awesome!
05-13-2010, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Legal Bill,May 13 2010, 02:53 PM
My work is awesome!
05-13-2010, 12:29 PM
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Hell, I was talking about retirement planning in 1986, the year I started here.
05-13-2010, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by aashish2,May 13 2010, 12:38 PM
^ never say never 
Lainey, glad to hear Rick has more time to spend with you and sorry to see your "arm in sling" avatar again - I hope you feel better soon! I was wondering why you had not posted in Upstate for awhile.
05-13-2010, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by dlq04,May 13 2010, 06:41 AM
I feel sorry for anyone who honestly believes their job is their life. I NEVER believed that the number of hours you work = how effective you are. Over my career, I could count the number of times I put in a 'full 40-hour week' on one hand - really, ask anyone who worked with me. I took pride in my work and exceeding expectations but I never for a minute believed that job success somehow made me something special.
Good golly Dave that would be my response as well. I worked and was successful, but I was never what I did. When someone would ask what I did, I would say, I was a guy who traveled, dove, hiked and liked cars....oh, and yes, I also worked as a salesguy.
05-13-2010, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Tadashi,May 13 2010, 06:55 PM
No I think it's safe for both Doug and I to say Never when it comes to kids! Note the Capital "N"
Lainey, glad to hear Rick has more time to spend with you and sorry to see your "arm in sling" avatar again - I hope you feel better soon! I was wondering why you had not posted in Upstate for awhile.
Lainey, glad to hear Rick has more time to spend with you and sorry to see your "arm in sling" avatar again - I hope you feel better soon! I was wondering why you had not posted in Upstate for awhile.
Ellen, I'm doing OK. Arm goes into sling on Monday after surgery, and this side has not been as uncomfortable as the last.
As far as changing my avatar I guess I have premature avatar disease.
05-13-2010, 03:45 PM
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[QUOTE=Zippy,May 13 2010, 06:59 PM] Good golly Dave that would be my response as well.
Good golly Dave that would be my response as well.
05-13-2010, 03:56 PM
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I have to carry an "on call" cell phone from work. Fortunately, it only rings a couple of times a year, outside of planned outages. I want to be important enough that I don't need a cell phone.
Don't get me wrong: the people I work with are nice, management treats us pretty well, the work is sometimes quite interesting (PeopleSoft Cobol did some amazing things), I've worked much more than 40 hours many weeks, but if I didn't need the money I'd be gone in a heartbeat.
The petty politics, bureaucracy, and red tape of corporate America could suck all the joy out of eating pie for a living.
Don't get me wrong: the people I work with are nice, management treats us pretty well, the work is sometimes quite interesting (PeopleSoft Cobol did some amazing things), I've worked much more than 40 hours many weeks, but if I didn't need the money I'd be gone in a heartbeat.
The petty politics, bureaucracy, and red tape of corporate America could suck all the joy out of eating pie for a living.
05-13-2010, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Lainey,May 12 2010, 09:18 PM
If you've been saying for years that long hours at work are killing you, forward this article to your boss--it might literally be true. According to a new study, people who work more than 10 hours a day are about 60 percent more likely to develop heart disease or have a heart attack than people who clock just seven hours a day.
Take it easy!
Take it easy!
I love my job and I'm proud of how good I am at it. But I am not my job. My job is something I do. Ninety-nine percent of the time my job doesn't feel like a job. It's all the meetings and the paperwork which serves no function other than satisfy the whims of a group of bureaucrats.
Luckily for me and all other parties concerned, my reputation for having zero patience for mindless bureaucracy has become well known and I'm rarely asked to participate in such things any more. Then there is the contract I had to sign as a condition of my employment that I will not plot or attempt to overthrow the Constitutionally established Government of the United States. WTH am I supposed to do now in my spare time, take up knitting?