Getting away with things at work
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In my job I can safely say that my effort levels are high throughout the week, interspersed with a little mind-wandering on to PH every now and then for some 'external stimulation'.
A friend who works remotely for a large manufacturing company simply gets away with only seeing about 5 people a week, has no real reporting, drives a great company car and earns a substantial basic + bonus. There would appear to be little pressure levied on him even in these turbulent times and I can't believe it.
Do any of you guys who don't work for yourself have such an easy ride with work?
A friend who works remotely for a large manufacturing company simply gets away with only seeing about 5 people a week, has no real reporting, drives a great company car and earns a substantial basic + bonus. There would appear to be little pressure levied on him even in these turbulent times and I can't believe it.
Do any of you guys who don't work for yourself have such an easy ride with work?
Pferdestarke said:
In my job I can safely say that my effort levels are high throughout the week, interspersed with a little mind-wandering on to PH every now and then for some 'external stimulation'.
A friend who works remotely for a large manufacturing company simply gets away with only seeing about 5 people a week, has no real reporting, drives a great company car and earns a substantial basic + bonus. There would appear to be little pressure levied on him even in these turbulent times and I can't believe it.
Do any of you guys who don't work for yourself have such an easy ride with work?
My question is........what does your friend do?? i need a job like that.A friend who works remotely for a large manufacturing company simply gets away with only seeing about 5 people a week, has no real reporting, drives a great company car and earns a substantial basic + bonus. There would appear to be little pressure levied on him even in these turbulent times and I can't believe it.
Do any of you guys who don't work for yourself have such an easy ride with work?
to answer your question, at present, i am in office by myself and on pistonheads, im ahead with work (apparently, so i will continue to PH/Autotrade/Ebay till lunch time)....ahhh the joy of it
My work tends to be very much feast or famine. I can spend all week surfing the interweb one week and actually work a 60 hour week the next.
At the moment I'm in the middle of a slow patch but have a large piece of work coming in in the next week or so.
Believe, not having any work to do for the 40 hours you have to be in the office each week gets very dull after the first few days, even with access to the internets.
At the moment I'm in the middle of a slow patch but have a large piece of work coming in in the next week or so.
Believe, not having any work to do for the 40 hours you have to be in the office each week gets very dull after the first few days, even with access to the internets.
Fairly easy ride. See my boss once a month, other than that I work on my own. I only see another colleague at change of shift, so during my shift I am pretty much left to my own devices. The work I do is actually generated by the job, so I can't sit back and do absolutely nothing, but there are quiet periods when the only way to get through without dying of boredom is to put a DVD on or similar.
My project has come to an end and my contract is up at the end of June. Nothing much on at all, except tidying up my filing. I've already sorted out my desk. PH, Browsing and filling out application forms is all thats here for me now. Although the animated JPEG thread is keeping me smiling!
I do the feast/famine thing too. Fairly quiet at the moment so on ph quite a bit. The odd day is very busy and then I'll have a few weeks where I'm very busy too. Then back to being quiet.
But I bang in my 45 hours minimum (sometinmes more if busy)and get paid reasonably well (and by the hour!) for it.
I've worked out that if, say 2,500 of my posts here are from work and I spend on average 2 minutes per post, I've earned quite a few grand for posting on ph.
It'll be a fair bit more than that if I were to add on the non-posting-browsingtime
But I bang in my 45 hours minimum (sometinmes more if busy)and get paid reasonably well (and by the hour!) for it.
I've worked out that if, say 2,500 of my posts here are from work and I spend on average 2 minutes per post, I've earned quite a few grand for posting on ph.
It'll be a fair bit more than that if I were to add on the non-posting-browsingtime
I have just started a contract role for 3 months and, unlike anywhere I have worked before, there are restrictions on internet access! It's annoying to say the least, but that is not the worst thing - you have to bring your own teabags and coffee in from home as the company doesn't provide them 
I'm getting the odd couple of hours here and there from different clients - mostly done remotely from home.
I just bill them all a total as agreed with them when I'm doing the work and they seem happy to be paying for me only when they need me, rather than having me sitting (and billing) in their office for 11 hours until they decide they've not managed to come up with the material they were expecting.
Messes up the day a bit though, as you can never tell when they're going to want the work, so you can't just go out for the day. I'm still 'in the office' from 8am-8pm though.
I just bill them all a total as agreed with them when I'm doing the work and they seem happy to be paying for me only when they need me, rather than having me sitting (and billing) in their office for 11 hours until they decide they've not managed to come up with the material they were expecting.
Messes up the day a bit though, as you can never tell when they're going to want the work, so you can't just go out for the day. I'm still 'in the office' from 8am-8pm though.
DIW35 said:
Fairly easy ride. See my boss once a month, other than that I work on my own. I only see another colleague at change of shift, so during my shift I am pretty much left to my own devices. The work I do is actually generated by the job, so I can't sit back and do absolutely nothing, but there are quiet periods when the only way to get through without dying of boredom is to put a DVD on or similar.
Similar story for me, boss works on a different site to me 45 miles away and I am the only member of my team based down here. I have colleagues in my office but they have no idea what I do and probably don't care. Boss takes the attitude that if he doesn't hear about me I must be doing my job and most of the time I am but theres always time for PH in between! 
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