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Do you work hard?

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  • 16-03-2019 7:08pm
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    RWCNT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭


    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?


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    Whocare
    Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Whocare


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


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    [Deleted User]
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    I specialise in the manufacture of paper airplanes. Also known as a clerical officer.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,361 ✭✭✭corner of hells


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


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    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,418 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    I hardly work!


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    EmmetSpiceland
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    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.

    The tide is turning…



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    TG1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭TG1


    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.


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    Spleerbun
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Spleerbun


    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.


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    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,063 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    I do. But I masturbate harder.


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    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    Op, you're saying you are a Traveller!


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    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    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!


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,361 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    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.


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    Wesser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,552 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    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.

    The tide is turning…



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    Tacklebox
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭Tacklebox


    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.....


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    #17
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


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


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    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.


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    #19
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users Posts: 10,207 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    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)


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    #20
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    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.


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    #21
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users Posts: 6,671 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    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.


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    #22
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Yes, I do.


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    #23
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    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.


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    #24
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


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


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    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    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.


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    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,903 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    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


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    #27
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I work hard for the money


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    #28
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    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?


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    #29
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,607 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


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


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    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    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


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    #31
    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Prominent_Dawg


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


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