Comments on: work patterns

By: duchess

duchess — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:35:17 +0000

I am trying to get myself to a state where I can get efficient and streamlined. The problem is that I have a large pile of things to do that gets bigger everytime I don’t put in a late night. Is there such a thing as really having a longer to-do-list than there are hours in a day? That’s what I feel like sometimes.

By: vika

vika — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:17:09 +0000

Jon – interesting, and a bit sad. Mostly, though, when writing the post I had in mind the internal state of the work-er, not how that person is perceived by others. Your point is well taken, though: efficiency isn’t always going to be popular.

On the other hand, when I have a kid or two, fuck popular. I’ll want to be efficient, and as long as I get my stuff done, anyone who doesn’t like me leaving on time can bite me.

This is more or less the attitude I have now, too (although I haven’t run into the political problems you describe). I *need* to be efficient, so that I can do all those other things I want to do with my life. Otherwise I’ll go insane. Time of your own was likely a benefit of your .com working habits as well, no?

By: J. Lasser

J. Lasser — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:46:42 +0000

When I was in a .com job, I accomplished my projects on schedule, and I left on time.

Interestingly, this made me extremely unpopular. I was seen as less committed to the success of the company because I worked 40 hours a week. Never mind that I did everything I was asked to do, and it all got done, and that I was the go-to guy for a whole lot of stuff. I was uncommitted simply because I wasn’t killing myself for a job that in practice didn’t require me to kill myself.

YMMV, of course.