Do you work hard?

RWCNT · 16-03-2019 7:08pm #1

Honestly, do you work hard at your job?

I work with a fella who complains about dole scroungers and that constantly, but spends 80% of his day on social media or fag breaks. I'd say on a given day he probably does 2 hours of work if he's lucky.

I work as a PA/office support in a charity for travelling speakers who go to conferences etc. to shill for us. I don't be dossing very much but when there aren't any looming deadlines I take it handy enough tbh. I could do more but I keep everything under control and that's fair enough for the wage I get IMO. What about yourselves?

Whocare · 16-03-2019 7:12pm

No drive a truck for about 5 hours waited to be loaded/unloaded about 4 about 10 hour day for 650 a week

16-03-2019 7:13pm

I specialise in the manufacture of paper airplanes. Also known as a clerical officer.

corner of hells · 16-03-2019 7:19pm

I work in homeless services , it's very quiet these days , nothing going on.

Timberrrrrrrr · 16-03-2019 7:20pm

I hardly work!

EmmetSpiceland · 16-03-2019 7:25pm

I find that a lot of time is wasted in work by older staff members focusing more on what other people are doing instead of focusing on their own work.

I ignore people on my team using their phones or looking up things online as long as their work is getting done. If it’s not then we have a chat about it.

TG1 · 16-03-2019 7:27pm

Its always busy in my office. I check my phone, go for smoke breaks etc. But do my full 7.5 hours im paid for every day and then some.

I left a job previously because I didnt have enough to do. It doesnt sit right with me to be paid to read blogs and shop.

Spleerbun · 16-03-2019 7:28pm

I do my job well, but do everything possible to minimise the amount of time I spend working. Working for a large multinational I know their game is maximising what they can squeeze out of people as much as possible, so I do my best to do likewise with them.

beertons · 16-03-2019 7:28pm

I do. But I masturbate harder.

Force Carrier · 16-03-2019 7:28pm

Op, you're saying you are a Traveller!

ChikiChiki · 16-03-2019 7:31pm

RWCNT wrote: »

Honestly, do you work hard at your job?

I work with a fella who complains about dole scroungers and that constantly, but spends 80% of his day on social media or fag breaks. I'd say on a given day he probably does 2 hours of work if he's lucky.

I work as a PA/office support in a charity for travelling speakers who go to conferences etc. to shill for us. I don't be dossing very much but when there aren't any looming deadlines I take it handy enough tbh. I could do more but I keep everything under control and that's fair enough for the wage I get IMO. What about yourselves?

Yes and tbh have gave everything I do 110% as up to Management Consultant level. After 11 years scratching my head as to why I still have fook all wealth.

Think I'd like to go drive a luas or bus at this stage and nothing wrong with it!

corner of hells · 16-03-2019 7:32pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I find that a lot of time is wasted in work by older staff members focusing more on what other people are doing instead of focusing on their own work.

I ignore people on my team using their phones or looking up things online as long as their work is getting done. If it’s not then we have a chat about it.

Ohh , you'll be old some day Emmet.

Wesser · 16-03-2019 7:33pm

I work so intensely..... it's like an performance . I'm.so exhausted at the end of the day I feel like I have been hit by a bus. Needless to say, I face the public.

16-03-2019 7:37pm

I'm a photographer, so i work hard in the sense that I must keep an income coming in, but I don't work hard in the sense that there's a lot of manual labour involved. Spend most of my time on the road, driving about the place.

I know a chap that's a general handyman of sorts. Just plastered my sitting room last week. That's hard work! I don't know how he's still going. He reckons he'll be on the scrap heap by 50 (he's mid-40s) as his arms won't be able for it anymore.

EmmetSpiceland · 16-03-2019 7:38pm

corner of hells wrote: »

Ohh , you'll be old some day Emmet.

I’m no spring chicken as it is but once the work gets done and done well I’m not going to get worked up over the kids twittering on their gizmomabobs.

Tacklebox · 16-03-2019 7:40pm

I work in the public sector, work to rule don't be a fool.

They don't pay well, and trying to get anything done you're jumping through red tape and their computer systems should be fossils at this stage.

As for procurement, pffft....

Luckily I'm working outdoors most of the time forestry and environmental job's.
But today's health and safety procedures, could slow you down for up to 4 hour's, then waiting on the engineer slows you down more.

People think public sector workers and county council guy's do SFA but the irony is we're slowed down by all the red tape and other wacky rules and regulations.....

What I could do in an hour at my own discression, could take 4 in the public sector.....

Yer Da sells Avon · 16-03-2019 7:40pm

No. I work long and unsociable hours, but I have a very easy job.

Harry Palmr · 16-03-2019 7:40pm

Work hard when I working yes - and outside to boot. Fairly knackered when I get home at the moment but I'll never work indoors with any luck and certainly not at a desk, must be quite soul destroying.

JohnCleary · 16-03-2019 7:42pm

I get paid to take part in my hobbies.... so no, I don't work at all (but I pay Income Tax, PRSI x 2, USC x 2)

Airyfairy12 · 16-03-2019 7:47pm

No, I dont get paid enough and the management are very critical, when I started I worked very hard and was always trying to prove myself but everything I did was corrected and criticized so I stopped trying.

Wanderer2010 · 16-03-2019 7:48pm

If it something I like doing or have a genuine interest in, ill work at it hard but never past my finishing time. Working hard is a con, a big fat con because the people who do it because they want to "climb up the ladder" as if that's a positive thing, get lumped with all the hardest and most awkward jobs/projects to do and they never get a break. Someone who comes in, does their bit but nothing more, actually knows where they stand with their boss and they get to go home and enjoy time with their families.

Hard work never really gets you anywhere personally, you are just lining up some directors pockets. Anyone who falls for all the buzzwords and culture of climbing ladders, touching base, reaching out and all that corporate crap, is a fool and destined to waste the best part of their lives in an office at 8pm.

byhookorbycrook · 16-03-2019 7:53pm

Yes, I do.

JohnnyFlash · 16-03-2019 7:58pm

No, I work clever. Get my employees to do most of the work, as is their job. I do the sales and meeting the clients.

Mister Vain · 16-03-2019 7:59pm

Sometimes I work hard and sometimes I hardly work. It's very sporadic.

SCOOP 64 · 16-03-2019 8:00pm

Whocare wrote: »

No drive a truck for about 5 hours waited to be loaded/unloaded about 4 about 10 hour day for 650 a week

Surprised anyone wants this type of job anymore, long hours,stress with work load ,low pay ,cost to get license in first palce then do CPC every year just to keep it.

Sleeper12 · 16-03-2019 8:00pm

Left school at 14 in 1982. Haven't had a sick day in my life. Work six days a week most weeks and went through a period of 3 or 4 years working seven days a week. I take less than two weeks off per year including Christmas and holidays.

It doesn't feel like I work that hard. It's working in the right job and having the correct frame of mind is the secret

mad muffin · 16-03-2019 8:01pm

I work hard for the money

Mister Vain · 16-03-2019 8:01pm

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Surprised anyone wants this type of job anymore, long hours,stress with work load ,low pay ,cost to get license in first palce then do CPC every year just to keep it.

Is 650 a week considered low pay?

Day Lewin · 16-03-2019 8:02pm

No. I am the champion of laziness, procrastination and avoidance.

JustJoe7240 · 16-03-2019 8:22pm

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Surprised anyone wants this type of job anymore, long hours,stress with work load ,low pay ,cost to get license in first palce then do CPC every year just to keep it.

650 a week is low paid? You’re talking out of your arse

Prominent_Dawg · 16-03-2019 8:24pm

George Carlin once said "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."

16-03-2019 8:47pm

I work quite hard, yes. Working for the public sector at the moment and I can honestly say that it's probably the hardest I ever have worked (and I've had demanding jobs).

Although I work hard and am knackered every evening, it's probably the least hours per week I have worked. I still work a standard working week but in other private sector jobs the done thing would have been to do a couple of extra hours most evenings, but I now see people are nowhere near as productive as they are when focus is on getting the job done to a good standard within the specified working hours.

My job is hard, subject to a lot of scrutiny, and there's no such thing as a handy day. But it's ultimately rewarding and I still have my free time.

voldejoie · 16-03-2019 8:47pm

Generally yes, but there are peaks and troughs. The odd time I go through a week or so where I feel like I'm twiddling my thumbs, but more often I'm pulling late hours and working at 100% under a lot of pressure which more than makes up for the rarer, more quiet periods!

I really like my job though, even if I'd prefer to not have to put in so many late nights and have a smaller workload!

ofcork · 16-03-2019 8:51pm

Love to be on that money work in the cleaning industry just clearing over 400 for 39hrs not hard work thankless work though.

SCOOP 64 · 16-03-2019 10:02pm

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

650 a week is low paid? You’re talking out of your arse

not by the time you pay tax on that for the hours you put in to get it.

GoneHome · 16-03-2019 10:15pm

Spleerbun wrote: »

I do my job well, but do everything possible to minimise the amount of time I spend working. Working for a large multinational I know their game is maximising what they can squeeze out of people as much as possible, so I do my best to do likewise with them.

Something similar here but I find recently the office politics side of things is starting to take over, I don't get involved but observe from the comfort of my desk, you'd have to laugh at the antics of some of them :rolleyes:

16-03-2019 10:46pm

Yes i work very hard at my job. Take pride in doing a good job. Plus it's interesting

honeybear · 16-03-2019 10:47pm

YES

MrCostington · 17-03-2019 11:45am

I'm self employed (in office type work) so do work hard at times, but others not so much and makes me feel really guilty if not. I try to set daily objectives, rather than number of hours at desk.

Anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbLxQ__EYBo

HalloweenJack · 17-03-2019 12:19pm

I have a few big deadlines coming up so when I'm there, I work pretty much no stop, for the hours that I'm paid. As soon as it's time to go, I'm out of there. When things are calmer, I spend a bit more time on my phone.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 17-03-2019 12:23pm

I wouldn’t say I work hard. I do my work 100%, no one ever has to chase me up to get something finished and no one ever comes back to me to say something wasn’t done right and/or do it again. My desk is usually clear on Friday evening.

Snow Garden · 17-03-2019 12:47pm

37 hours every week. No more.

FluffyTowel · 17-03-2019 1:22pm

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

No, I dont get paid enough and the management are very critical, when I started I worked very hard and was always trying to prove myself but everything I did was corrected and criticized so I stopped trying.

That's awful management!

I work hard. It gives me a lot of satisfaction, and it's interesting. I've seen too many people giving the bare minimum and hating their jobs.

In saying that, I had a previous role where I ate, slept and breathed the job. I loved it, but it almost burned me out in the end. So now I make sure to keep my hours in reign, learned how to delegate (kinda :pac:), and - ya know what - I'm now more appreciated than when I was regularly doing 100 hour weeks.

pgj2015 · 17-03-2019 2:03pm

i work 7 days a week for myself. I probably work too much but it will be worth it in the end.

eviltwin · 17-03-2019 2:51pm

The work isn't physically hard so in that respect no. I have a lot of down time. Emotionally though it's tough. I'm working with very vulnerable people who have been through all sorts. I'm often hearing and seeing things that sicken and depress me.

Edgware · 17-03-2019 4:26pm

I used to but now the wife is on the game I do very little except pop to the shops for her "supplies"

davidk1394 · 17-03-2019 5:02pm

I’m self employed running an agricultural contracting business. I make good money, work hard at different parts of the year. Sometimes the work is physical other times it’s literally just sitting in a machine. Longest shift was 28 hours non stop which was torture.
Currently I’m lambing sheep at home and on another farm. Day starts at 11am to 5am the next morning. Tough going for the next few weeks

poisonated · 17-03-2019 10:35pm

I work 37.5 hours a week. I like my job.

Esse85 · 17-03-2019 10:53pm

Most people work just enough not to get fired.

Wildly Boaring · 17-03-2019 10:58pm

Hard to describe

No physical work involved.

Stressful role that can be hard.

Then on the slow days I could nearly stay at home. Had a month last year where I had nothing to do. Spent it helping the quality assurance manager close out old projects. (Ugh)

Majority of role is to travel to sort out problems that arise on projects. This is can be high stress but I love it.

Generally brought in too late. **** has hit fan.

Main stress is either the pissed off client, the pissed off building contractor or pissed off public.

Could take a day to sort. Could take weeks. Might never get sorted till we get in front of a judge as no interest whatsoever in sorting.

Yes I can work hard......but any labourer works harder

Crimsonred · 17-03-2019 11:52pm

poisonated wrote: »

I work 37.5 hours a week. I like my job.

Same hours here, I'd love to reduce it to 35 hours but I know that I'm doing well as it is, most of my fellow employees work 40+ hours and don't see it as an issue.

I guess I'm just a lazy sod.

Do you work hard?

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