Comments on: You Have Too Much Time On Your Hands. Really.

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By: Ligtv izle

Ligtv izle — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:29:41 +0000

I agree that finding ways to be more efficient can certainly free up some time, but that’s usually advantageous only in salaried positions. I worked PT for a staffing company that figured out ways to squeeze its employees for EACH AND EVERY minute that he/she works. All that while, the management sat in their distant offices, barely working (because much of their work had been passed onto the workers – efficiently, ofcourse). At the end of the day, I’d go home EXHAUSTED because each and every minute of mine was filled with something or another. If I am damaging my peace of mind, health and exhausting my body and soul THAT MUCH (in the name of efficiency), then I better be compensated accordingly. $14/hr for a 5 hour day just does not cut it. That $70/day (less, after taxes) BARELY covers my in-state-tuition for ONE year from a University. Sure, I could add on another PT job that over-works me so I can survive, but that’s not a good solution. Workers are HUMAN BEINGS – with a soul, with potential & talents, with interests outside of earning a living.

By: DN

DN — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I do all the things that you mentioned, it’s amazing the amount of time I could save, if I work as efficiently on a normal day as on a day than the day before a vacation. Now my task is to stick to your rules :-)

thnx

By: Brant Serxner

Brant Serxner — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hello,
While I would agree with you overall, I think the problem is with the rocks. Do you have control over them once they surface? If you do, the crux of the matter is finding the time and will to change them. If you can’t control them, as in the case of organizational processes, intractable co workers or clients, environmental constraints or personal factors, then what? You can try to bypass the rocks, or look at other alternatives, but the point is, it’s not really about time and focus anymore, it’s about your two jobs, the one on the surface and the one that’s been covered up. You are still on the mark though, the first step has to be getting a look at the rocks.

Brant Serxner, PMP

By: Roderick Reilly

Roderick Reilly — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The advent of desktop publishing and the Internet also helped to exarcebate this problem. It used to be that when something was published, it had to be virtually ready to go while still in manuscript form before it could be actually printed, and then only as a proof to be edited one more time. Nowadays indecision, mind-changing, and micromanagement of the process are the norm.

By: Madeline

Madeline — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Among people who are not self-employed, I don’t know anyone who is truly “willing” to essentially give their personal time to their employer for free by working late and on weekends and being available 24/7 via portable communications. To be willing would imply that I have a choice in this in today’s market, that most employer’s don’t expect these things of their employees as a condition of advancement and continued employment. It is not that I or most people I know will stretch the work to the time; it is that we will be given more and more work to fill more and more time expected of us. Just try telling your boss that you won’t accept the company-provided cell phone or blackberry, that you won’t answer calls from work after you’ve gone home or on the weekend, that as a principle you don’t do overtime as a matter of course. In my last job, I and 90% of my colleagues worked 50-60 hour weeks as a rule not because most of us were so inefficient but because our employer wanted to keep the payroll down. Hey, project x is just one more thing on the pile, right? I left that job for one with more pay, but I can’t say the conditions are any different– that is just life in business these days.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Madeline,

No argument: employers have increasingly high expectations of employees these days, and the demands of the current business environment do necessitate longer hours.

But. . . people *are* giving up vacation time voluntarily (i.e., not taking their allotted 2 weeks). Employers can’t force workers to give that up. And people do work on Sundays, even though employers can’t mandate that either.

The fact is that if you spent 24 hours everyday in the office, you *still* wouldn’t get everything done. There’s always more work to do. So where you draw the line — at 15 hours, or 12 hours, or 10 hours — is in a sense immaterial. You won’t get everything done.

I’m suggesting that since you won’t/can’t get everything done, you might as well make the time a bit shorter. This will cause some of the inefficiencies (in your own work habits or in the system) to surface so that they can be addressed and fixed.

By: Sezgin

Sezgin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In my last job, I and 90% of my colleagues worked 50-60 hour weeks as a rule not because most of us were so inefficient but because our employer wanted to keep the payroll down. Hey, project x is just one more thing on the pile, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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By: diyet listesi

diyet listesi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In my last job, I and 90% of my colleagues worked 50-60 hour weeks as a rule not because most of us were so inefficient but because our employer wanted to keep the payroll down.