As I am spending most of my time working, I find that I am getting just dumber and dumber as I get older. The new 'skills' that I learn at work have very little personal value for me. After work, commute and dinner there really is not much time left for anything except a little web surfing, exercise, chores, TV or reading or something else that does not take much effort and time after a long day. I have so many interests that I had to put off because I don't have the time for it. It is frustrating but I think the only way around it is ditching the job some time - the sooner the better. In the mean time I am becoming fairly dumb.
We recently had a seminar put on by senior management called 'work-life balance'. Unlike I expected, the message was that work goes first above anything at any time. That may be true for these high $$$ VP's but the average cubicle dweller may not have that same ambition and may have different priorities. Our senior managers spend "quality time" with their family, not "quantity time" so they have lots of time left to work to toil around in the office. Whoever does not do enough quantity time at work, does not deserve a bonus - and probably not even a job according to the message. (bonus has become a very large part of a normal paycheck, so it is not a who cares kinda thing). Needless to say that I got shafted 100% for my bonus this year. Why not "quality time" at work and cut the meeting BS so we can have both quality and quantity time at work. Anyway, the message was clear. One of my colleagues takes this advice to heart. She does not even go home a lot of times. She brings a change of clothes and I guess she takes a bath in the sink before the rest of the cube-dwellers show up. Crazy.... Hope she will get a very fat bonus, these people tend to get suicidal if their work world caves in.
Vicky
We recently had a seminar put on by senior management called 'work-life balance'. Unlike I expected, the message was that work goes first above anything at any time. That may be true for these high $$$ VP's but the average cubicle dweller may not have that same ambition and may have different priorities. Our senior managers spend "quality time" with their family, not "quantity time" so they have lots of time left to work to toil around in the office. Whoever does not do enough quantity time at work, does not deserve a bonus - and probably not even a job according to the message. (bonus has become a very large part of a normal paycheck, so it is not a who cares kinda thing). Needless to say that I got shafted 100% for my bonus this year. Why not "quality time" at work and cut the meeting BS so we can have both quality and quantity time at work. Anyway, the message was clear. One of my colleagues takes this advice to heart. She does not even go home a lot of times. She brings a change of clothes and I guess she takes a bath in the sink before the rest of the cube-dwellers show up. Crazy.... Hope she will get a very fat bonus, these people tend to get suicidal if their work world caves in.
Vicky