Are you a conscientious worker?

Archeron

Just reading through the thread on amount of time spent on boards made me breath a sigh of relief. Thank goodness I'm not the only one who spends a worrying amount of time lurking around this site.

Boards has a lot to answer for. When I was boards-less, I used to spend my day looking for new business, sorting our customer problems, interacting with other humans etc, but now thats all changed. At every opportunity, I go browsing through the various forums, and before you know it, the day is over and you've done absolutely nothing.
So, do you work hard every moment of the day? Or do people actually think that the watercooler IS your office? Do you inspire those around you with your morally upright work ethics or do you hide in the toilet playing games on your mobile phone and laughing at your own farts?
I do hope I'm not the only lazy >BEEP< out there (but in my defense, I dont have that much work to do anyway). Somehow I dont think I am. I may need a serious injection of good work ethics, time management skills and ability to work on my own initiative, but I doubt it will happen in this job. (thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it)

Dont get me wrong, I'm not proud of how little I do, but you really do have to care about your job to be eager, and for me, its just a big MEH! at the moment.
What about you?

TerrorFirmer

I used to spend an awful amount of time on boards in my old job. My desk was kind of in the corner of the room with the back of the monitor facing the rest of the office...

Although to be fair, I'm a decent worker. Even browsing boards half the day, I easily got as much work done as most of the other workers....I know what has to be done, and I always get it done regardless!

Edit: Archeron...are you in work now??

Archeron

HavoK wrote:

Edit: Archeron...are you in work now??

Yes indeed. One eye is looking at boards, the other is staring at a tree outside the office.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I put " I am quite a hard worker" Though for the last 2 weeks i've done feck all, but this isnt really my fault as i've just started a new job...

c - 13

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

I put " I am quite a hard worker" Though for the last 2 weeks i've done feck all, but this isnt really my fault as i've just started a new job...

Sounds exactly like me. My last job was inpecting and fault finding on the circuit boards that go into pacemakers and defibrillators, and I still managed to spend 5 out of 7 hours on boards.

TerrorFirmer

Don't have much to do myself right now either.

MBC

I have loads to do but I do the bare minimum..........if someone asks me to have something done I will do it.........but other than that I'm on the net.

Yesterday I'd say this was the outcome:
Hours IN work 7.5 (9am to 5.30pm taking 1 hour lunch)

Hours doing work Aprrox 2.5

Hours Dossing 5:eek: holy ****!!!

goods

glad its not just me then !

punky

I'd be a hard worker if there was any work to do. On average I have about 1 hour a day of actual work. But of course I have to be in the office from 9 to 6.

It really is soul destroying. Even the Internet is boring the pants off me lately.

petes

If something needs doing I'll do it. Work 9-5:30 with one hour lunch. Its a bastard when you have to put a timesheet in though.

Kintarō Hattori

I was working on the shop floor, but now I've moved to the company offices on a completely different street. It's QUIET, so very quiet and dull and boring and I think I'm going mad.
In fairness I think I get more done as there are less distractions, but god damnit it's so quiet and none of my other colleagues are here, just a bunch of older women and the directors.

It's BORING AND QUIET.

petes

I'd prefer to be busy myself but a few hours do go by in the day when I have frig all to do. Maybe get 2-3 busy days a week.

free2fly

That all depends. I don't have dailey tasks that I do on a regular basis, so my work is more project based. When I have a project to work on I am very productive. When I don't, I'm not. And when I'm not it gets very boring around here. And I have to add that even when I am not viewing boards I am still logged on

Ruu_Old

We work hard, WE PLAY HARD!

Ye're all fired!

Black Swan

When I am conscious I am conscientious.

BigEejit

You do realise that this poll is going to be grabbed by some waster of a HR consultant and shoved in peoples faces when the next round of layoffs comes around

Because we all know how hard HR works :rolleyes:

zuutroy

Last job I had was in Intel, did ABSOLUTELY nothing but the bare minimum for 10 months, coz even being in the plac sickened me. Then just as they were getting pissed off I quit.....perfect timing. Tens of thousands of euro for nothing.....(including being paid shift allowance for three months unnecessarily) Thanks lads!
Moving to something I like now next week, so a little less dossing.

NoDayBut2Day

I think I don't work as hard as some people give me credit for. I do all my work and get well enough grades, but I could probably be doing top notch if I applied myself.

Dave!

Some points for me...

1. If there's a certain "work-load" that needs to be done before the end of the day, then I'll work hard to get it done -- mainly because I want to get out of work ASAP.

2. If the company treat me well then I'm more likely to work hard for them.

3. I absolutely hate when work is shared between a group of people, and some people don't chip in, but rather stand around chatting. It's as selfish as it gets. My first "real" job was like that (in a warehouse) -- the work had to be done before the end of the night, so I'd just put in my earphones and get on with it, whereas some of the others would just stand around talking. I'd get extremely p*ssed off and stop working myself, until they start doing something (no point in complaining, as they're related to the managers), but then I realised that I'm not an asshole, and if I don't do MY work, then it's left to the others (E Europeans, hardest working f*ckers in the place). So I'd generally just get on with it and grit my teeth.

I should really have organised a coup in that place..... bleh....

Goodshape

Work from home most of the time and choose my own hours. If I've got a project or some-such which needs done by a certain date, then I'd [usually] get it done on time.

I've got dreadful self discipline though (something I have to work on for many aspects of my life actually).. I could sit down 'to work' and spend the next couple of days just surfing the net, which only means I've got to cram it all in at a later date.

But I'd like to think I manage to pull my weight when working in a team. In my experience I'm usually not the one holding things up (or not the only one at least).