Hard Worker?

connundrum

Do you work 'hard' in whatever role you're employed to fill? I mean, I know that there are lazy ass people (such as myself) who will do the bare minimum till deadline day and then get mad stressed.. but there are people who break their back everyday regardless of the importance of task they are given..

I personally think that when I get a job that I love, they will be no stopping me for 9 hours a day*.. but until then, I'll just see the week through with as little hassle as possible thanks :v:

*Maybe 4 or 5 hours, but significantly more than present time

Wickla in Blaa

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

I used to break my balls in work (Thinking that it may lead to something and even got opportunities in work to do new things because of this, with the same pay of course, scabby ****s) but then I saw that around me others got the same pay for hiding and getting by. Considering this i used my reputation as hard worker to get work in less supervised sections of my job and people just assume i work as hard as ever.

My hard work has setup a platform as a dosser, I'm still approached to do important stuff but at quiet times i pretend I'm allready doing important stuff and sit on my fat hole!, **** em and their non promotion givin' ****in heads!!!

I haven't done a tap in weeks!! In fact today all I've done is ****ed around on boards (an account that I only setup cos i decided I was doing nothing this week)

Kojak

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

I think the importance of the work itself determines whether I will work hard at something or not.

If it was a long-term project I wouldn't really bother my arse, but if it was due in a week or two then I would concentrate on that alone.

My philosophy is - do as little work as possible (without doing so little that you will get fired) for the pay that you get - that way you are getting your wages easier than the lad who is breaking his back working hard for the same pay.

AARRRGH

People normally get promoted via politics and "I like him/her" rather than hard work.

...

But if I like a job I'll try my best. I do find it hard to "work hard" when I'm doing something ****ty though...

PlayGirl

I do enough to get by.

i'm never really bothered to do things if they take too much effort/energy.. including school (i still go there! )

Pighead

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

Pighead does just enough to get by at work. I depend on my good looks and charm to get by in life.

Dizzyblabla

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

I work my ass off, it's rarely noticed, sometimes I do even three times the work of others I work with..
I don't take sick days and I even went straight to work after being crashed into a few weeks back. I think I'd go mad if I sat around doing nothing all day, but then again, I do find time to have a look on boards every so often!

Rb

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

My job doesn't demand a whole lot from me but I do put a fair bit of effort into it.
Some days I'll get very little done but that'd be because theres nothing to do, but if theres a job that needs to be done I'll do it.

connundrum

Kojak wrote:

My philosophy is - do as little work as possible (without doing so little that you will get fired) for the pay that you get - that way you are getting your wages easier than the lad who is breaking his back working hard for the same pay.

I do fully agree with you on that point, but a lot of the older generation feel that it's their duty to put in an 'honest' days work.. and I know that older people (granddad, uncles etc) would disapprove of me poncing around an office all day gettin the same wage as them.. but thats begrudgery I suppose.. hmmmm :rolleyes:

Brother To God

I notice if you do over time and break your balls each day
you get no thanks and even better when you can not do
over time you get the look,the look that says c**t!
I try to do no work at all and sometimes even go around
moving items to make it look like I was just after doing
something.If a company expects you to work they should pay
you well for it,The pay I am on requires me to work approx
one hour maybe,I,m sick of breaking my balls,I have washed
the Blood and sweat off my broken balls so I am
gonna sit back and try
let them heal!

Scraggs

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

I work like a divil and it usually goes unnoticed, I do all the crappy jobs that everyone hates [putting out rubbish, sorting hangers etc] without being asked. I am left unsupervised though most of the time and I am well respected by the other staff. I love my job though so i dont care

Tazz T

I do enough to get by.

If you're talented enough at what you do, you don't have to work as hard.:D

Litcagral

Dizzyblabla wrote:

I don't take sick days QUOTE]


I have only taken two sick days in eighteen years. Colleagues say that I'll get "no thanks for it" but I don't agree - I could tempt fate and end up with a serious illness!

Rb

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

Scraggs wrote:

I work like a divil and it usually goes unnoticed, I do all the crappy jobs that everyone hates [putting out rubbish, sorting hangers etc] without being asked. I am left unsupervised though most of the time and I am well respected by the other staff. I love my job though so i dont care

Do you work in a clothes store?

Vegeta

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

I have no problem playing computer games for 8 hours straight but why o why cant i love my job and do the same here. I hate my job, if I didn't have a 10 grand loan i'd actively be seeking better employment

godtabh

I'll work as hard as I can so that the job I'm doing will be done on time.

But in my part time employment days it was a total different story!

muppetkiller

We're posting during work hours are we not...

AARRRGH

Tazz T wrote:

If you're talented enough at what you do, you don't have to work as hard.:D

I agree 100%! What's hard work for someone is a piece of cake for someone else.

Kur4mA

I do enough to get by.

"hard work"

Canis Lupus

I work on and off.

I take an easy day I take a busy day and repeat.

Pythia

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

I work hard. I love getting things done. Mmm lists...
Anyway, I work on commission so I need to work hard to make decent money.

Nightwish

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

Outside of work, I am a lazy bum, especially when it comes to college work. I can't really doss in work unless its quiet, so normally I'm run off my feet, so I really dont have a choice.

Nimrod's Son

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

My job has sucked some of the life out of me :mad: Some days I'll work like a bastard and others I'm prone to bouts of extreme lethargy. Needless to say, these are my favourite days!

Femelade

I do enough to get by.

i never ring in sick unless i really am, i go in hung over if i have to and sleep as much as i can during the day.
the people i work with are basically the same, we do as little as we have to.
there are days when some things HAVE to be done, so we do them as best we can. but if there's a chance to doss, which there usually is, we will take the oppurtunity.
although there are days were we are very proud that we did so much in one day as much as it killed us atthe time of actually doing it.

Mossy Monk

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

options are not varied enough i think

i wouldnt bust my balls at work but i wouldnt do nothing either so i chose the I do enough to get by.

Litcagral

muppetkiller wrote:

We're posting during work hours are we not...

Unfortunately not - I've never had the need to use a computer at work yet - they don't exist anyway. Any posting I do is from home in my own time.:(

rainbow kirby

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

I work hard at my job... I don't really have much choice but to! In college, I work hard when I need to, otherwise I'm a lazy bum. Though I *did* spend 5 hours playing a DS game in college today, despite the fact I have a programming assignment due on Monday which I'm not finished.

w00t 4,000th post

Font22

i work hard when i have to, other then that i just cruise along

Zaph

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

Mossy Monk wrote:

options are not varied enough i think

i wouldnt bust my balls at work but i wouldnt do nothing either so i chose the I do enough to get by.

Same here. I'll work my balls off as and when the need arises, but fortunately that's not the norm where I work so I do what's expected of me every day, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less, and go home as early as I can.

OLDYELLAR

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

Im a bit of a work freak to be honest , a perfectionist I suppose , I work my ass off every day and if they allowed me Id probably take the work home just to double check it , I stress a lot that Ive made mistakes along the way and then I stress that theres bits Ive forgotten to do if I get a job done quickly.

Then again I do like the job so usually the day goes really quickly , I did have a couple of incidents of dosing off in work which aint good but I put that down to the stress I was under at the time also not sleeping worrying about workloads didnt help the situation either. Bloody tax returns :rolleyes:

Binomate

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

I'm a pizza man. I get to have sex with all the ladies, just like in the movies.

seamus

I'm a little bit like OLDYELLAR. If work is presented to me that I'm enjoying doing, or that I've *really* immersed myself in, I'm tempted to not even go home, and just continue working. Common sense and "It'll still be here tomorrow" eventually kick in though.
On the other hand, if something mundane or boring is presented, it'll sit waiting to be done, until I have five or six similar mundane tasks lined up, then I'll just hammer through them in 10 minutes.
If there's a lot of work lined up for me, I'll keep at it, whether I enjoy it or not, cos I hate having things hanging over me, waiting to be done.

I know when I get too long in job, cos I find myself doing less and less (surfing boards when there are things waiting to be done ) and still doing twice as much as everyone else cos it's all old hat.

projectmayhem

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

seamus wrote:

I'm a little bit like OLDYELLAR. If work is presented to me that I'm enjoying doing, or that I've *really* immersed myself in, I'm tempted to not even go home, and just continue working. Common sense and "It'll still be here tomorrow" eventually kick in though.
On the other hand, if something mundane or boring is presented, it'll sit waiting to be done, until I have five or six similar mundane tasks lined up, then I'll just hammer through them in 10 minutes.
If there's a lot of work lined up for me, I'll keep at it, whether I enjoy it or not, cos I hate having things hanging over me, waiting to be done.

I know when I get too long in job, cos I find myself doing less and less (surfing boards when there are things waiting to be done ) and still doing twice as much as everyone else cos it's all old hat.

i'm in the exact same boat. if i'm interested, and there's some sort of goal set for me, i'll work like crazy to get to the end, then move on to the next thing.

strangely i find it hard to apply this ethos in college. probably because i don't get paid...

constitutionus

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

i used to work me bollocks off till i realised the company didnt give a **** and just capitalised on my naivette. now i watch DVDs on my hidden portable dvd player (just got through season one of "sledge hammer", god it was a laugh) and knock back the tea.

take today. basically read my entire "supreme power" collection (its a comic) and did 2 suduko (or however your meant to spell it). only had 8 customers and managed to fob off 3 of em and got the report wrote up in 5 minutes then headed home.

learn my lesson young 'uns. your company wants to screw as much out of you as they can. so return the favor every chance ya get

LegacyUser

When I am doing something I love I will work day and night if needs be, and I will enjoy doing it (kinda:) )

I would be willing to travel miles, and to work all the crazy shifts you can throw at me as long as I am doing what I wanna do.
What do I wanna do? RADIO!!!!!
From as early on as I can remember, all I have ever wanted to do is work in the media industry. I got a lil typewriter for Christmas when I was 7, and my first article was published in the parish newsletter in time for my first holy communion. (true story ye know )
Since then I have tried my hand at a little bit of everything, from acting, singing, presenting on tv (I used to review CD's on POPSCENE back in the day) extra work, journalism, creative writing, presenting on radio, producing, researching, all that jazz, got me a HND in journalism, a HND in radio broadcasting and finally, a degree in media production and mgt, and I am still at it, chipping away at the media block, waiting for that 'big' break.

Honestly, I would be prepared to work in radio FREE of charge from monday - friday, as long as I had a part time gig at the weekends to pay the bills, I really would.

Right now, I am temping, doing admin type work, and it is the most boring, and mind numbing work I have ever done, and I would say they get about 50% out of me for their money. I know thats not really very fair of me, although in my defence, the 50% effor seems to get the work done, so maybe thats all I really need to be doing at the moment.

Femelade

I do enough to get by.

sillysausage wrote:

Honestly, I would be prepared to work in radio FREE of charge from monday - friday, as long as I had a part time gig at the weekends to pay the bills, I really would.

i see where your coming from, i've worked for a radio station for the last 2 yrs and i just love it, its not like work atall.

LegacyUser

Femmy wrote:

i see where your coming from, i've worked for a radio station for the last 2 yrs and i just love it, its not like work atall.

I am so jealous, who do you work for?
I have a pretty big deal interview tomorrow, as in, big, massive, gigantic deal for me, probabaly not even a blip on the radar for the station, but still, its the closest I have gotten to anything positive in a long time.

Femelade

I do enough to get by.

sillysausage wrote:

I am so jealous, who do you work for?
I have a pretty big deal interview tomorrow, as in, big, massive, gigantic deal for me, probabaly not even a blip on the radar for the station, but still, its the closest I have gotten to anything positive in a long time.

answers in a pm girl, dont want any Co-workers finding me out!

Chucky the tree

I do enough to get by.

^Best of Luck.


I am jobless bum, but when i had a job i didnt do a tap of work, it was great.

connundrum

Chucky the tree wrote:

when i had a job i didnt do a tap of work, it was great.

Might explain the jobless bum situation you find yourself in at the mo, yeah

Zaph

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

sillysausage wrote:

Honestly, I would be prepared to work in radio FREE of charge from monday - friday, as long as I had a part time gig at the weekends to pay the bills, I really would.

Don't know if you've heard the ads, but Today FM are recruiting full and part-tim researchers for The Last Word. Details are on their website. Good luck with the interview.

LegacyUser

zaph wrote:

Don't know if you've heard the ads, but Today FM are recruiting full and part-tim researchers for The Last Word. Details are on their website. Good luck with the interview.

I am on it, believe me

Thanks for the tip off though, and the good luck wishes too, now, if you could just cross all your fingers and toes for me, and keep an eye out for shooting stars and all that jazz, whilst all the time wishing for my ultimate success, I would REALLY appreciate it:D Ha ha!

tj-music.com

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

I am very fortunate to be able to work in a job that really satisfies me although the payment is crap. So, it is a part time job, usually 20hrs; but I work way more.

I am a reporter and get to see cool places and talk to nice people and apart from that I can really raise awareness for a lot of things.

Being nearly 39 I am telling you straight that I wouldn´t work hard for a crappy job anymore. Been there, done that

Chucky the tree

I do enough to get by.

connundrum wrote:

Might explain the jobless bum situation you find yourself in at the mo, yeah

probaly. I am enjoying my bumness alot more then working!

LegacyUser

tj-music.com wrote:

I am very fortunate to be able to work in a job that really satisfies me although the payment is crap. So, it is a part time job, usually 20hrs; but I work way more.

I am a reporter and get to see cool places and talk to nice people and apart from that I can really raise awareness for a lot of things.

Being nearly 39 I am telling you straight that I wouldn´t work hard for a crappy job anymore. Been there, done that

Who do you work for? (by golly I am networking my media obsessed lil ass off tonight )

slipss

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

yeah I work as hard as I can, but I'm ehh semi-self employed so it's kind of self serving, I've never really worked for someone else so I don't know how hard I would work if I was employed by someone else but I'm pretty sure it would depend on how much they appreciated it.

AgainTheTime

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

Femmy wrote:

answers in a pm girl, dont want any Co-workers finding me out!

LOL

Not that I'm stalking you but I recall you posting it previously, your avatar reminded me of it

Clean out your PMs and I'll show you where you said it...

Your secret is safe with me

Mr Magnolia

Hard work?! I laugh in your face!

Sometimes I'm very busy, sometimes very quiet, but when there's work to be done I do it.

jizzum

IMagine my disapointment when i realised that this thread was actually about WORKING and not some naughty little ditty about a horny employee...

Femelade

I do enough to get by.

AgainTheTime wrote:

LOL

Not that I'm stalking you but I recall you posting it previously, your avatar reminded me of it

Clean out your PMs and I'll show you where you said it...

Your secret is safe with me

oh cripes! inbox ready to be filled up again....

AgainTheTime

Bah... I'm jobless, and a bum.

PM sent