"Educating" the other half about business practices
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Japveesix said:
IvanSTi said:
Rude-boy said:
Fair enough then, perhaps I and most of my friends are abnormal as well 
The people who work for the bank next door seem to be in at 8:45 and gone at 4:45.
On the other hand I stupidly trained for a professional career where my working hours are considered normal, and where people like Zod will have had to pull even more stupid hours for many years before they reached the rarefied air he now breaths.
Just saying there are well paid/well sought after jobs out there where you don't have to work/be out the house silly hours. Not everyone who works 9-5 is a knuckle dragger The people who work for the bank next door seem to be in at 8:45 and gone at 4:45.
On the other hand I stupidly trained for a professional career where my working hours are considered normal, and where people like Zod will have had to pull even more stupid hours for many years before they reached the rarefied air he now breaths.
I think on PH saying you do 80 hour weeks makes you look cool and anyone doing a normal 9-5ish working day (which millions of people in the UK still do in perfectly respectable jobs) basically means you're a pauper with no skills who probably dropped out of school.
Edited by Japveesix on Thursday 2nd April 23:04
a few years back I and a couple of others had a fairly disorganised boss. He recruited someone to 'manage' us, so he had only one report and we had a new 'boss'..
she wasn't really needed but she sealed her fate on day 2, sat at her new desk, turns round and said, in a fairly confrontational manner "what's the longest day you've ever worked..?" and then proceeded to try and belittle us as hers was far in excess of ours.
she lasted about 2 months, the CFO didn't even lift his head to say goodbye on her last day.
she wasn't really needed but she sealed her fate on day 2, sat at her new desk, turns round and said, in a fairly confrontational manner "what's the longest day you've ever worked..?" and then proceeded to try and belittle us as hers was far in excess of ours.
she lasted about 2 months, the CFO didn't even lift his head to say goodbye on her last day.
Should the title not be "Educating the other half about being an employee"
She is the one running a business.
Nothing wrong with being a good and valuable employee, don't misunderstand me, but the world will no stop if you said Fxxk it next Monday.
Somebody will replace you. (you may not think so, but someone will)
We change Kings, Presidents and Popes
A little perspective maybe.
Good luck.
She is the one running a business.
Nothing wrong with being a good and valuable employee, don't misunderstand me, but the world will no stop if you said Fxxk it next Monday.
Somebody will replace you. (you may not think so, but someone will)
We change Kings, Presidents and Popes
A little perspective maybe.
Good luck.
NRS said:
Japveesix said:
My closet friend works very standard hours, 9-5.30ish, and gets paid a very healthy amount a few times the UK average salary (I realise this is still pocket money for most PHers but in the real world he's very comfotrably off). I assume most of his colleagues also do similar hours for similar good salaries and they're all educated and skilled.
I think on PH saying you do 80 hour weeks makes you look cool and anyone doing a normal 9-5ish working day (which millions of people in the UK still do in perfectly respectable jobs) basically means you're a pauper with no skills who probably dropped out of school.
The quotes seem to have got messed up, but yes, I agree that a lot of the number of hours you work is just a way of showing off. It reminds me a bit of university, during exams some people would be "studying" 12+ hours a day, and yet when the results came out it was obvious they'd been there in person, but they just hadn't been efficient with their time. If they'd relaxed a bit more and had a bit more fun between their revision times they'd have been more productive.I think on PH saying you do 80 hour weeks makes you look cool and anyone doing a normal 9-5ish working day (which millions of people in the UK still do in perfectly respectable jobs) basically means you're a pauper with no skills who probably dropped out of school.
Guys I went to uni with used to get really pissed off with me. OK they all got 1st or 2-1, I got a third, when we questioned each other what we studied over the week/weekend/whatever their response was "Oooh everything, hardly slept, done countless hours of this, that and the other. What you been studying Ivan?"
"me? Errm, went fishing on Saturday, played football Sunday, watched the match after, had a few beers, done a couple of hours Sunday night but couldn't really get into it so went to sleep"
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