People who never seem to leave the office

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-09-2017 01:27PM #1

There's a couple of people where I work and, no matter how late you leave or early you arrive, their cars are in the carpark and the light is on in their rooms. If you get emails from them they are often at 11 o'clock at night or on Sat or Sun and they are constantly cancelling leave because they are 'too busy' to take it.

I've worked with people like that before and, when they eventually retired or moved on, their replacements seemed to have no problem getting the job done during normal working hours.

Just wondering if any of you on here spend long hours in the office, constantly bring work home with you, and how you don't crack up having little or no time away from work?

McMurphy · 26-09-2017 01:30PM

People like that can only fall into one of two categories.

Lick arses, or incompetent.

kieran. · 26-09-2017 01:31PM

and its generally the latter !!

sbsquarepants · 26-09-2017 01:35PM

Adonis Sweet University wrote: »

If you get emails from them they are often at 11 o'clock at night or on Sat or Sun and they are constantly cancelling leave because they are 'too busy' to take it.

Well, that's teachers for you. (Sorry, I couldn't resist:D)

I know people like that too, it's a waste of a life if you ask me.
No joke - there's a guy I work with who once took 4 hours off for his own mothers funeral despite being owed something like 10 weeks of holidays. We weren't even particularly busy at the time - he's just a clown!

begbysback · 26-09-2017 01:35PM

Adonis Sweet University wrote: »

There's a couple of people where I work and, no matter how late you leave or early you arrive, their cars are in the carpark and the light is on in their rooms. If you get emails from them they are often at 11 o'clock at night or on Sat or Sun and they are constantly cancelling leave because they are 'too busy' to take it.

I've worked with people like that before and, when they eventually retired or moved on, their replacements seemed to have no problem getting the job done during normal working hours.

Just wondering if any of you on here spend long hours in the office, constantly bring work home with you, and how you don't crack up having little or no time away from work?

Emails can now be sent from phone whilst watching television and drinking coffee.

If you don't pay the leccy bill then no need to knock the light off in the evenings.

tomwaterford · 26-09-2017 01:36PM

My old boss used be like this....be ringing everyone asking random questions around 8 or 9 pm that could wait until morning

After few weeks of this...I just stopped answering him

__..__ · 26-09-2017 01:36PM

I worked with a guy who used to be in the office late and sent emails at 11pm etc.
Then I was at a wedding in the hotel right behind our office. Our hotel room window overlooked the window of the office.
I went up to the hotel room a few times during the night, the last time being about 11pm.
The fuker was playing solitaire every time I looked over.

I'm another place one of the guys used to send emails just before midnight. I saw him writing one one day about 4pm so noted the contents. The next morning I got that same email in my inbox. The time.sent was 11:30pm. He had written it earlier and dialled back in to click send so it looked like he was working at that time.

All about appearances.

Neon_Lights · 26-09-2017 01:37PM

__..__ wrote: »

I worked with a guy who used to be in the office late and sent emails at 11pm etc.
Then I was at a wedding in the hotel right behind our office. Our hotel room window overlooked the window of the office.
I went up to the hotel room a few times during the night, the last time being about 11pm.
The fuker was playing solitaire every time I looked over.

I'm another place one of the guys used to send emails just before midnight. I saw him writing one one day about 4pm so noted the contents. The next morning I got that same email in my inbox. The time.sent was 11:30pm. He had written it earlier and dialled back in to click send so it looked like he was working at that time.

All about appearances.

You can schedule to send in Outlook fyi

B.A._Baracus · 26-09-2017 01:38PM

begbysback wrote: »

Emails can now be sent from phone whilst watching television and drinking coffee.

If you don't pay the leccy bill then no need to knock the light off in the evenings.

That's actually interesting... Never thought about that before.

So pretty much start logging in to your company email from your phone, leave your office light on then fire emails off in the evening from home and promotion here I come lol.

__..__ · 26-09-2017 01:41PM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

You can schedule to send in Outlook fyi

I know someone who did that too. It backfired when there was a problem with outlokk and the email went every minute until the morning. It was priceless.

Steampump · 26-09-2017 01:42PM

Some people prefer the office to being at home with the family. Some people use the office as a means of running away from themselves, it serves as a distraction to avoid existential angst.

LimeFruitGum · 26-09-2017 01:42PM

Jeez, that's crazy that he took only a half day for his own mothers funeral. Bet he even checks his work email on Christmas Day. He's going to burn out.

AnneFrank · 26-09-2017 01:44PM

__..__ wrote: »

I worked with a guy who used to be in the office late and sent emails at 11pm etc.
Then I was at a wedding in the hotel right behind our office. Our hotel room window overlooked the window of the office.
I went up to the hotel room a few times during the night, the last time being about 11pm.
The fuker was playing solitaire every time I looked over.

I'm another place one of the guys used to send emails just before midnight. I saw him writing one one day about 4pm so noted the contents. The next morning I got that same email in my inbox. The time.sent was 11:30pm. He had written it earlier and dialled back in to click send so it looked like he was working at that time.

All about appearances.

why did you keep going up to your bedroom, powdering your nose ?!!

Working class heroes · 26-09-2017 01:44PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

My old boss used be like this....be ringing everyone asking random questions around 8 or 9 pm that could wait until morning

After few weeks of this...I just stopped answering him

And that's why he's your old boss....

begbysback · 26-09-2017 01:46PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

That's actually interesting... Never thought about that before.

So pretty much start logging in to your company email from your phone, leave your office light on then fire emails off in the evening from home and promotion here I come lol.

Also, just to make it complete - buy 2 identical cars, and leave one outside the office - CEO in a year

tomwaterford · 26-09-2017 01:46PM

Working class heroes wrote: »

And that's why he's your old boss....

Yas....I left

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-09-2017 01:47PM

I remember when I used to post on another forum that someone started a thread asking people how many hours a day they worked. Posters were falling over themselves to rush on and tell everyone how they started at 7am and rarely got home before 9pm and usually ended up putting in a couple of hours at the weekend......
It was as if working long hours was some kind of status symbol that made you superior to the 'losers' who worked their contracted hours and then went home to their families/interests/social life.

It was actually quite sad and I hope most of them came to their senses (this was during the celtic tiger) and realised that sacrificing large chunks of your life to work in order to feel important was just a huge waste.

sbsquarepants · 26-09-2017 01:48PM

LimeFruitGum wrote: »

Jeez, that's crazy that he took only a half day for his own mothers funeral. Bet he even checks his work email on Christmas Day. He's going to burn out.

He's a total gobshíte to be honest with you. Harmless enough, but just has nothing resembling a life outside of work.
Wouldn't be me!

__..__ · 26-09-2017 01:48PM

AnneFrank wrote: »

why did you keep going up to your bedroom, powdering your nose ?!!

Once was for a sh1t.
A couple of times were for the babysitting rota.
And the last time was to sleep.
I might have gone for another sh1t at some point in the day too but I can't remember. So there could have been two sh1ts.

Coffee Fulled Runner · 26-09-2017 01:49PM

My manager hasn't taken a days holiday expect for Christmas since I joined the firm in 2001. Every week is a six day week for him and often doing 7 day weeks. Longs hours too. I think it's a sad life as he has nothing else going on expect for work. If he was paid a hourly rate it would be something but it's a salary.

sbsquarepants · 26-09-2017 01:49PM

__..__ wrote: »

Once was for a sh1t.
A couple of times were for the babysitting rota.
And the last time was to sleep.
I might have gone for another sh1t at some point today too but I can't remember. So there could have been two sh1ts.

Coke fiend. No doubt about it:eek::eek:

__..__ · 26-09-2017 01:50PM

Adonis Sweet University wrote: »

I remember when I used to post on another forum that someone started a thread asking people how many hours a day they worked. Posters were falling over themselves to rush on and tell everyone how they started at 7am and rarely got home before 9pm and usually ended up putting in a couple of hours at the weekend......
It was as if working long hours was some kind of status symbol that made you superior to the 'losers' who worked their contracted hours and then went home to their families/interests/social life.

It was actually quite sad and I hope most of them came to their senses (this was during the celtic tiger) and realised that sacrificing large chunks of your life to work in order to feel important was just a huge waste.

And they probably posting all day on boards while telling people how hard they worked too

screamer · 26-09-2017 01:51PM

Adonis Sweet University wrote: »

I remember when I used to post on another forum that someone started a thread asking people how many hours a day they worked. Posters were falling over themselves to rush on and tell everyone how they started at 7am and rarely got home before 9pm and usually ended up putting in a couple of hours at the weekend......
It was as if working long hours was some kind of status symbol that made you superior to the 'losers' who worked their contracted hours and then went home to their families/interests/social life.

It was actually quite sad and I hope most of them came to their senses (this was during the celtic tiger) and realised that sacrificing large chunks of your life to work in order to feel important was just a huge waste.

You'll probably find that a lot of them are now occupying the top jobs in the companies they work for. Some people take immense pride in their career and furthering it and don't see any effort spent in pursuit of their goal as a "waste". Others don't. It's horses for courses really.

Pac1Man · 26-09-2017 01:53PM

Adonis Sweet University wrote: »

I remember when I used to post on another forum that someone started a thread asking people how many hours a day they worked. Posters were falling over themselves to rush on and tell everyone how they started at 7am and rarely got home before 9pm and usually ended up putting in a couple of hours at the weekend.......

That's just letting everyone know they have an 'important' job.

What a life to live though. Some people have carved out an expensive lifestyle which can only be funded by this carry on.

rgace · 26-09-2017 01:53PM

Probably fiddling the books and worried they'll be found out if they leave the office.

4068ac1elhodqr · 26-09-2017 01:54PM

Simply tell 'em that after 5/6pm you reside in an Electro-pollution-free environment (no internet, no phone).
That you belong to some new age religion that refuses 2.4GHz wherever possible. That you can only be reached by Pigeon messaging.

Many desk-jockeys will often run back to their desks for aldesko lunches, within seconds of getting some limp vending machine sandwinch.
That's a quick way to getting a poor back, get up, stretch, walk and seek some fresh air.

McMurphy · 26-09-2017 01:55PM

AnneFrank wrote: »

why did you keep going up to your bedroom, powdering your nose ?!!

That's a fair question (coming from someone who spent almost 3 years in an attic)

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 26-09-2017 01:56PM

screamer wrote: »

You'll probably find that a lot of them are now occupying the top jobs in the companies they work for. Some people take immense pride in their career and furthering it and don't see any effort spent in pursuit of their goal as a "waste". Others don't. It's horses for courses really.

That's fair enough. But a lot of these people seem to look down their noses at people who just want to work regular hours, or create an awful culture in workplaces where people who want to go home at a normal hour are made to feel bad and as if they're not pulling their weight. That's an unhealthy attitude and is detrimental to family and community life.

meeeeh · 26-09-2017 01:57PM

I'm not a fan of long hours but it depends on the situation. I know quite a few people who were working very long hours during the recession to keep the business afloat. I also know some who are working long hours so they don't need to go home. Then you have seasonal nature of work, a lot of accountants will be busy now and not so busy some other time of the year. It also depends on some other responsibilities or deadlines, not every job can be evaluated the same way.

lawred2 · 26-09-2017 01:57PM

Adonis Sweet University wrote: »

There's a couple of people where I work and, no matter how late you leave or early you arrive, their cars are in the carpark and the light is on in their rooms. If you get emails from them they are often at 11 o'clock at night or on Sat or Sun and they are constantly cancelling leave because they are 'too busy' to take it.

I've worked with people like that before and, when they eventually retired or moved on, their replacements seemed to have no problem getting the job done during normal working hours.

Just wondering if any of you on here spend long hours in the office, constantly bring work home with you, and how you don't crack up having little or no time away from work?

I have zero respect for fools like that.

Paully D · 26-09-2017 01:58PM

No one thinks "I wish I worked more" when on their death bed. It'll be thoughts of "did I spend enough time with my family?" "did I do enough for my kids?" etc.

Go in on time, work hard, go home on time.

People who never seem to leave the office

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