Are you a hard worker and are you proud of it?

Femme_Fatale · 18-08-2013 11:31PM

Rarely get out on the dot of my finishing time - I aim to though.

Galwayguy35 · 19-08-2013 12:11AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Rarely get out on the dot of my finishing time - I aim to though.

I'd be on a clockcard so come 3pm I'm outta there as i don't get paid overtime, I notice those on salaries e.g managers and supervisors would stay a bit later though if they had to.

somefeen · 19-08-2013 12:22AM

Ah but you see in my job, it doesnt matter if everything is done by 5 or 6, there is always more and that stuff needs to be done ASAP all the time.
I wish working fast would let me finish earlier but it doesn't, I could work 24/7 and the work wont be done.

endacl · 19-08-2013 12:24AM

Lars1916 wrote: »

I think, I can be proud of myself, I'm working in the community, looking after people with disabilities. No weekends for me, but I don't mind, I get loads of positive feedback.

I do believe we've met!

Wacker The Attacker · 19-08-2013 12:28AM

i'm a lazy bollocks

Systemic Risk · 19-08-2013 12:32AM

somefeen wrote: »

Ah but you see in my job, it doesnt matter if everything is done by 5 or 6, there is always more and that stuff needs to be done ASAP all the time.
I wish working fast would let me finish earlier but it doesn't, I could work 24/7 and the work wont be done.

If the work will never be done then it will always be there tomorrow. I used to try stay late to get stuff done but I found that after 5/6 it was taking me twice as long to get the same amount done. By leaving earlier I actually seem to get more done during the day as I know I am going to be leaving at a certain time and need to get as much as possible done in that time. Of course if I have deadlines which need to be met I will stay in if needs be but that's the exception rather than the rule.

If you don't value your time no one else will.

krudler · 19-08-2013 12:36AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I agree there are times when you can be flexible - usually when you're well used to the job and confident, but jobsworths get an awful hard time though. If being a jobsworth means I won't get into the height of sh1t and risk my job... then I'll be a jobsworth!

It's give and take alright, I won't bend to every customer for an easy life but it annoys me seeing people having to deal with red tape when I could fix something in a couple of mouse clicks, on the plus side when you show that rule bending/breaking is more beneficial to the company and they just change how something is done it works out. I'm convinced there's a department in our place who's sole job it is to make everyone else's life more difficult with stupidly convoluted ways of doing things.

Celly Smunt · 19-08-2013 12:36AM

Damn you all and your structured jobs!

Czarcasm · 19-08-2013 12:40AM

It's threads like these when I read other posters saying "I do my work, no more, no less" and I'm thinking, "What the fcuk have I done with my life?". I kinda can't help keeping busy. I'm self employed as my main "job" so to speak, but this gives me time to do things like voluntary work and applying for jobs just because I want to work in that particular organisation.

A typical example would be like last Wednesday I went for an interview in an organisation for an admin job, I'd do it with my eyes closed, but I didn't care about that, I just wanted to work with the organisation. In the interview there were three of the top brass in the organisation. I said to myself I have an opportunity here to sell myself to the top, I totally tore up the rule book on Interview 101 formalities, way off the script. Thursday morning she called me to say I hadn't got the job (quelle surprise), but that she wanted to meet me again to talk about some of the things I talked about in the interview (I was givin' it socks in fairness, can't remember a thing now, winged it all the way!), and she felt there were projects they were working on that I might be interested in.

There are days too when rather than being up to my tits in IT I like nothing better than to relax and do physically demanding manual labour, my brain isn't constantly in overdrive, I love digging, I would dig a whole garden, twice! I love working up a proper sweat from manual labor. I think it's thanks to working with my old man from an early age in his engineering business that gave me a love of manual labor, and the drive to be self employed, IT was just something I'm passionate about anyway as I'm all about integrating it into processes to enable people to work smarter and more efficiently.

I see now how my son has kind of picked up on it the way he helps out the maintenance man here and then he loves coming to work with me and then for extra money he helps out down in the car park. I don't particularly like people giving him money as he has enough of it and I'd prefer to see him work for the sake of working (my old man used say "sure aren't ya lucky I'm feedin' ya?), but my wife figures if he works he should get paid.

I work because I like to work, I don't consider it work, it's just something I do because I enjoy what I do. I work with some of the most amazing and inspirational people and that's more than enough reward for me tbh.

pharmaton · 19-08-2013 12:48AM

NuckingFacker wrote: »

The laziest, most work-shy git who works for me is the last lad I'd sack - for the simple reason he charms the customers and they all love him. The lads who do the actual work he talks up are all a bit of a blur, tbh. Which is either a sad reflection on me, or a sad reflection on the world of work. If I asked yer man to work a saturday, he'd die laughing and go play golf.. but i pay him the most and would hate to see him leave... go figure.. push comes to shove, I'd sack the cnut though.(in case he's reading this)

jesus I read this and was instantly transplanted back to one job worked and the situation was the exact same, one of the staff was great with customers but in every other way couldn't give a crap about anything else, total airhead but buckets of charm and being one of her co workers was one of the most difficult things because we all did twice the work to carry her. Couldn't figure out why the boss kept her on, and now I know! (was happy enough to leave that place too, she was robbing the guy blind on the side but figured he deserved it

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Czarcasm · 19-08-2013 12:50AM

krudler wrote: »

It's give and take alright, I won't bend to every customer for an easy life but it annoys me seeing people having to deal with red tape when I could fix something in a couple of mouse clicks, on the plus side when you show that rule bending/breaking is more beneficial to the company and they just change how something is done it works out. I'm convinced there's a department in our place who's sole job it is to make everyone else's life more difficult with stupidly convoluted ways of doing things.

I'm convinced there's one of those departments in every organisation, and if there isn't, you're usually guaranteed some bureaucratic believer will make sure to put up every barrier to efficiency possible for fear their own job might be at risk, or more usually just to stop you implementing change! Some people don't adjust or adapt well to change, and when they're so inflexible, they're harder to bend, but they're easier to break.

I don't like breaking people so I usually just go around them or over their heads

pauliebdub · 19-08-2013 12:53AM

somefeen wrote: »

I would say I am a hard worker.
I get alot done in the day, work most weekends, never do less then 10 ( normaly 11-12 )hours a day even though I'm only paid for 37.5 hours a week and usually skip lunch breaks.
Even though I'm a hard worker and I've been told that I am, sometimes I think that this isn't something to be proud of. That I'm actually a fool for doing it.
What do you think?
Are you proud to be a hard worker? Don't care? or are you proud of the fact that you do the bare minimum and leave everyday at 5 on the dot laughing at the stupid ****ers still working?

I do what's expected of me and arrive on time every day and am nice to everyone. I work with people who go beyond that, stay late in the evenings, come in on a Saturday, brown nosing the managers, have a finger in every pie. In my experience they get roped into every crisis that comes up which increases their workload, get taken advantage of and never get any thanks for their efforts. It's better to keep the head down IMO.

Agricola · 19-08-2013 01:08AM

When Im doing something for myself Im extremely diligent. Usually going way overboard and overdoing the amount of effort that's required. If something should take and hour to do, I'll take 3 just to be sure. I took this attitude into an office environment afew years back and quickly found out that that was a mugs game. Some of the people who got on best in the place, did the least amount of work and let people like me pick up the slack. So I did what was required. No more no less. Was always on time, didnt take the piss with absence, but equally never made myself an easy target for weekends or overtime and made sure to be gone at my finishing time everyday. People who went overboard got no special treatment, so why bother. My attitude to working for myself hasnt changed though.

Dont think its something to be particularly proud of. It takes all sort to make a world and some of the most interesting people I know or know of could never be described as hard working. I personally find people who live to work to be a bit tedious. Guy my Dad used to work for is a pure workaholic. Hates taking an annual summer holiday with the wife n kids, is on the phone to suppliers/clients all day everyday. He just lives to make money and has really no other interests in life. Sounds like a really tiresome existence to me but to each their own.

Jimmy Iovine · 19-08-2013 01:21AM

I'd consider myself a hard worker when I need to be.

Whilst on work placement last year I sometimes put in 100+ hour weeks. That was when I was applying for jobs, teaching all day, marking work, planning lessons, and travelling 45 minutes each way every day.

One week I had an interview on the Thursday and for the three days before that I got 3 hours sleep. I spent every waking minute pretty much working. I didn't have time to eat some nights. Then I travelled 2 hours on the Thursday to get to my interview. At that I taught a lesson for 45 minutes and then went into the interview. That lasted an hour and 45 minutes.

Thank **** I got the job.

I'm terrible at other times and, at the moment, I'm getting nothing done. Boards is taking up too much of my time. Realistically, I should be in bed now but I won't get to sleep for a few hours yet.

Are you a hard worker and are you proud of it?

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