How much work do you actually do?

[Aeval]

I found out a while back these people like my ambitious nature until it makes them look bad. I was creating projects, being hyper on top of things, and it wasn't what my supervisor liked. She likes to point out mistakes, order people around, and bitch. She won't let you take that away from her.

All for the greater good. Hopefully I can start taking clients in the new two years.

I have a friend who is a bricklayer and he's very good at what he does. He's very on the ball and works his arse off to get his job done, which means everyone else has to too....they don't like him...AT ALL.

I can't believe after all these years he hasn't been thrown of the roof of a building.

If you're too good or too efficient, it makes everyone else look bad..go figure, you'd think being good at your job would be a good thing. It's all a balance.

 

[Natasha]

I work 12 hour shifts. Of that, I would say maybe 6 hours. I have about an hours worth of paperwork to do every night and then another 2 - 3 hours of making tapes for work. Other than that it's pretty much sitting and waiting for the phone to ring or a call to drop that I can dispatch.

 

[RedRyder]

I only take a half hour unpaid lunch and if I make myself... two 15 minute paid breaks daily. Other than that.... I'm swamped. More so since downsizing came into play. I've got a lot of responsibilities.... from all the account activities -- AR/AP..... inventory control..... requisitions/ordering..... data entry..... budgets..... reconciliations..... etc.

I actually love what I do.... It just kills me though to see my 'co-workers' screwing around. Talk talk talk talk talk. I have my own office, but I hear lots from the main office area. Way too much. Sure.... I get paid more than them 'cause I do more..... but they seem to always cry when they get behind. If they'd shut the hell up, they'd stay caught up. Go figure.

 

[Boomerang]

I work pretty much the entire time. Even during my lunch and planning period I usually have to make copies or meet/call/email parents.

 

[Staci]

outside of the house....very little right now

inside the house i try to do a little as possible

 

[Tangerine]

When I first started my job ( 2 years ago) I worked the whole time. If there was lack of work, I would find something. I stopped doing that after I realized that everyone else worked super slowly/watched movies/browsed the web/chat and just gave me their work to do when I was finished with mine. No sense doing more work when you get no praise or recognition and just feel like you're being taken advantage of.

Now I do about the same amount of work as everyone else. It also helps that it's different from when I started and that I get along with all my coworkers pretty well.

This speaks volumes about American society in general.

 

[freakofnature]

I'd say I do two hours of work a night and that's if I'm busy. Seriously...tonight I started at 9pm and I was finished doing what needed to be done by 10:30. Now it's a long night of hanging out online, reading a book and glancing at the barn camera every so often to see if our one mare is going to make things interesting for me by foaling. I doubt it will be tonight, though. I'm thinking she's got a few days to go yet.

 

[Joe the meek]

This speaks volumes about American society in general.

Don't be so quick to make assumptions.

The flip side is there are people who work and give 110%, and they do a good job for the sake of doing a good job. Some people also realize that you don't worry about what others are doing, you worry about what YOU are doing.

Some people do work more than 40 hours a week, and personally I find what shows more about society in general is the fact that you aren't given that option per this poll.

 

[Panacea]

When I worked at CVS, I did the work of three people nonstop for 8+ hours per day. This job I have now doesn't require that. As a counselor, I'd be working nonstop as much as I wanted.

Every job requires something different, it's not necessarily an indictment on the person but an indictment on the job itself.

 

[Skorpy]

lol @ I have a job but still don't do any work.

 

[teh_fuzz]

I used to post on this site on almost a daily basis... my productivity time there was down to like 2 hours per 12 hour shift! Then i took up a position that gave me much more responsibility about 2-3 yrs ago and so started my OTZ hiatus lol

I post on here in between tasks, i look at the new posts and scan the titles for something interesting, but i still maintain a full schedule from 8AM until 5PM with maybe 2 hours of downtime including my lunch hour.

 

[HottyToddyChick]

I might take up an hour total just kind of sitting around and talking, most days. On opening shifts, especially Wednesdays, I might actually work for three hours, and that's only if my manager comes in for close.Today I was non-stop until 530 and the people started coming in as soon as we opened. I much prefer busy days though, I get to meet more people and time goes by faster.

 

[lemon]

I'm not currently working, but I assume that will change to probably 50+ hours a week, if I'm lucky. 60+ regular, and then there's "close to delivery" weeks. [standard job]

dream job - work would probably be all waking hours for about 6 to 8 months, then die down a bit.

 

[Tuffdisc]

Depends on the shoot

 

[Goatsson]

7-8.
If we include the breaks and lunch, it's a 9 hour day.

Currently working with shoveling snow off rooftops.
Usually keep working hard unless the seniors leave, then we might fuck around in the snow for a while. Jumping off the roofs into snow piles and stuff like that.