Bored at work
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REWahoo
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Sillysal said:
The same way you are coping...by wasting your company's money posting on this board.
REW
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As long as you have relatively unlimited access to the Internet, you shouldn't get too bored. I just let the links lead me to where they will and soon enough, I educating myself in some obscure but interesting subject. I always felt my employer was financing my education.
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Boredom........who has time to be bored?
I feel my employer should fund at least a little of my "education." They are not shy to ask me for more hours and more responsibility for no additional pay so what the heck, they can just deal with a little browsing in between meetings and fire fighting.
Looking at the discussions here sure makes one want to get out and FIRE away. I could do it now but the extra $$ I make now will be that much less I have to suck our of my investments later. My wife is still 2 years short of getting her pension so I might as well work too. It pays for the toys and the adds to my nest egg.
I feel my employer should fund at least a little of my "education." They are not shy to ask me for more hours and more responsibility for no additional pay so what the heck, they can just deal with a little browsing in between meetings and fire fighting.
Looking at the discussions here sure makes one want to get out and FIRE away. I could do it now but the extra $$ I make now will be that much less I have to suck our of my investments later. My wife is still 2 years short of getting her pension so I might as well work too. It pays for the toys and the adds to my nest egg.
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Martha said:
But then Thursday just becomes your new Friday.
Justin, I have enough political power at work that I don't have to stay at work if I want to goof around. So I don't go in on Fridays. Greg and I spent the day working on a new flagstone path. He was fussing around with something while I was trying to talk to him about the project. I asked if he heard what I said (as wives are wont to do). He said no, "I was thinking about you". Huh? What a recovery.
There was a study published a few days ago that the average US worker goofs off two hours per day. So feel free to waste those last two hours on a Friday afternoon! Of course, why corporations can't be more flexible and just let you do your work and then go home is beyond me. But of course if corporations weren't so inflexible, rule bound and overall annoying, I'd probably still be working. And I like ER better!
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Martha said:
Damn, that is excellent. I will use that (often) with your permission
of course
JG
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Martha said:
He shoots, he scores!
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MRGALT2U said:Damn, that is excellent. I will use that (often) with your permission
of course
JG
Of course you have my permission. I call this 'intelligence in action.' It's much better than talking about it.
--Greg
Monday Mornings and Friday Afternoons in corporate America are a partial, if not complete waste. As are the afternoons or mornings before/after a vacation or a holiday. In MegaCorp we got all of Christmas Week off. After one of these, looking at my fellow employees and/or me was like looking at refugees or deer in the headlights. It was a big pronouncement about how people really loved corporate life.
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