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Work is disorganised, unproductive and stupid. This results in low pressure low expectations.
However, as you can probably tell from my volume of posting, it's doing my nut! I appreciate idling as much as anyone, but the lack of direction and drive is not doing my state of mind any favours.
Anyone else trying really hard to care about their tasks at work?
However, as you can probably tell from my volume of posting, it's doing my nut!
Must have been doing your nut for a looooooong time then buddy.
its hard when you lose motivation - best thing to do is ban yourself off the tinterweb though and try to crack on - whenever I do that its better but it is hard!
turn singletrack OFF
turn email OFF
its like a snowball effect, once you've knocked out the first couple of shite jobs it gets easier and easier to finish them all.
no one forces you to skive off on here whilst blaming them for it
Some self discipline, self respect and a work ethic would also help
HTH
Exactly how it is for me atm.
Jamie.. yeah.. In about 2009 or so my job fizzled out and I haven't had any kind of real creative pressure apart from the odd occasion. I'm a bit worried I'll lose my brilliant hardcore genius edge, y'know..?
no one forces you to skive off on here whilst blaming them for it
Not blaming anyone. Fully responsible for it. Hence thread title.
Some self discipline, self respect and a work ethic would also help
100% agree!
Can I borrow your high horse after you're done?
no one forces you to skive off on here whilst blaming them for it
Some self discipline, self respect and a work ethic would also help
HTH
Bad mood today?
*Chuckles at grum's stalking of JY*
[i]turn singletrack OFF[/i]
How do you [i]do[/i] that?
Whenever I have documentation to do my mouse automatically opens the forum instead of Word. I wish I could switch STW off!
How do you do that?
I'm not practising what I preach ffs!
I wish we could trade sometimes
Not at work stuck at home with ill child - you could stalk the child care thread to rub my nose in it- who keeps waking up only to be cuddled by me whilst vomitting [ often on me]..not my best day.
Again though I meant it mainly in humour [like I have any of those qualities] and I expected a dig back actually...do I need to put a wink on everything silly I say ?
Ruins your self confidence and also ruins your resume - its all so slow to occur though that you don't realise how much of you is eaten away by the job/managers attitudes until the major damage is done. It gets harder and harder to fill in application forms for other jobs because of the self esteem loss and the decreasing work experience you are able to cite. Get out while you can. I stayed to long in similar situation as it became so hard to get out. It became a disaster.
I wish we could trade sometimes
Yeah, you're a far better worker than me!
Midnighthour - yes, although as a contractor I'm moving about a fair bit. And a few other things have helped my self confidence. I am a bit worried about my skill set though since most of these places have been stuck using old tech - that doens't help. The CV entry for these last few jobs is embarassingly short, cos there's f all to report!
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Better without smilies I reckon, makes it more fun.
And what Midnighthour said.
Anyone else trying really hard to care about their tasks at work?
Due to be made redundant next week, so not trying all that hard to care at the moment. I suppose the only thing is I do have a certain number of things to sort out before I go, and in theory some flexitime still to take, so should really just clear my desk.
Due to be made redundant next week
Ah sorry mate 🙁
That's me reminded to count my blessings..!
You gonna be ok?
Wtf is it you do exactly Molly? Is it just that there's literally nothing for you to be doing that you can do so much posting? Or is it procrastination? Is there anybody that checks up?
I'm a programmer.
My tasks are very light and have loong deadlines, and there's a lot of disorganisation with respect to my colleages with whom I interact. So it takes ages to get responses on things and so on.
Do all you jobs and you can come home and cuddle your adoring wife and child...
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Oh yeah.. ok.. shall I stop arguing with Edukator on the other thread then? 🙂
I suspect you are being paid a relatively good wage, and I also suspect that coming here and suggesting that you can't even manage to do a low pressure, low expectation job with anything like the correct approach is a pretty poor show.
To be brutally honest, it makes you sound like a spoilt brat.
How come this episode of The Grips Show didn't come up on my STW Planner?
Consultant on the bench syndrome.
I know how it feels and it isn't much fun
How come this episode of The Grips Show didn't come up on my STW Planner?
Personally, as well as blaming binners, I thought the show had been cancelled.
yes loads of money for doing a job that lets you fritter away your tim eon here and still not happy tbh its not the job its you 😆
Perhaps TSY can do a course for you?
I wouldn't have gone out if I'd known. Got shed loads to do this afternoon as well 🙁
What have I missed? Is it going to be on Moliplayer?
To be brutally honest, it makes you sound like a spoilt brat.
Interesting interpretation.
Are we not allowed the occasional moan about our jobs then to relieve the pressure?
The pressure in this case not being deadline related of course.
How come this episode of The Grips Show didn't come up on my STW Planner?
I'm sure I sent personal invites/reminders to everyone that was important.
You've moaned and you're moaning about me moaning about your attitude?
How much, in terms of salary are you actually being paid for this?
What have I missed? Is it going to be on Moliplayer?
😐
The pressure in this case not being deadline related of course.
How much pressure is there associated with not being under pressure?
You gonna be ok?
I get a decent payoff and there's the possibility of getting a job in wind power, so don't feel too sorry for me 😉
Crikey - I am sorry for any offence. I had hoped for a bit of light hearted banter but I should've known that it could cause offence to others. Please accept my apologies.
How much pressure is there associated with not being under pressure?
Quite a bit. It's hard to physically stay in the room sometimes! Comes down to job satisfaction I suppose.
How much pressure is there associated with not being under pressure?
I've been there - I can imagine how hard it is to understand for those who've never experienced that sort of procrastination hell.
Crikey - I am sorry for any offence. I had hoped for a bit of light hearted banter but I should've known that it could cause offence to others. Please accept my apologies.
C'mon soldier! Man up and defend yourself!
You gonna get jived by some punks, with your good lady watching?
I'm not offended, just comically exasperated that you can grumble about being paid for doing something that sounds easy.
Mrs grips is also missing a trick; you should be going home to a list of domestic drudgery as long as your arm!
The CV entry for these last few jobs is embarassingly short, cos there's f all to report!
Whilst I would never condone lying about anything on a CV (you look like a complete dick if you get found out!), I'm sure you've got the ability to elaborate plenty about your recent acheivements, and make them sound more important than they actually were... Your CV is a sales tool, the more interesting you can make it sound (even if the work was dull), the further it's going to get you...
Oh, and I can sympathise about the job, I've had both extremes in the past... Too much work, too little time, too little money, and the opposite of being paid a decent wage to do not very much with almost no pressure. And in the latter, it can be quite difficult to maintain discipline too, and get stuff done, because you begin to feel like there is no consequence to not doing the work satisfactorily and that you don't make a difference anyway.
I've been there - I can imagine how hard it is to understand for those who've never experienced that sort of procrastination hell.
Killing 40 hours a week, in the workplace, waiting for things to land at your feet or tasks to do is soul destroying! MUCH better if you have the ability to "work from home" when you want to, cos as we all know, with the prospect of doing your own things at home (riding bike, watching TV etc.) we all manage to compress 8 hours "work" into less than 2 hours.
Yeah it's perverse. Things are too easy. I want an insoluble problem with a critical deadline...
Perhaps TSY can do a course for you?
Not as stupid as it sounds Junky... I've been contemplating a move into consultancy...
I've been there - I can imagine how hard it is to understand for those who've never experienced that sort of procrastination hell.
IME, it's made worse by the fact that you know you're being a pathetic whiny **** about it. 🙂
Hahaha we don't do domestic drudgery in this house.
Mol and I are both lazy unmotivated creatures unless it comes to hedonistic 'jobs'
On the side of the "procrastination hell" posters here.
Doing nothing meaningful all day sounds great until you do it. It [i]is[/i] soul destroying. Believe it or not, being gainfully occupied all day is much easier.
Mol and I are both lazy unmotivated creatures....
So he's like this at home as well???? 😆
Don't apologise, sort your life out.
🙂 We are like this at home (when it comes to everyday chores) yes. Chores so dull aren't they? And once you do them you really just have to do them again.
It's such a pity we all cannot run around naked and do what ever creative fun we want whenever we want.
TSY you missed the wink
Actually I have been there but I liked the people. It really could be worse you are well rewarded for this you could do something damn hard for f all instead...every cloud and all that.
Sounds like the burden of the middle clarses; Boo Hoo, my £40,000, £50,000 job (and the rest...) isn't exciting enough.
Give it up then, be a drug dealer?
Lots of things that you can do a work that would benfit both yourself and your employer. learning to speak German for example.
Yeah the problem is that if I am seen to be not working it'll look bad. Some kind of online course might be a good idea though. I normally take my German book down to lunch.
Junky - I'm serious!
I use this: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/
Singletrackworld.com gets put on the blacklist 😈 along with facebook etc.
I'm sure there is a Windows alternative!
[i]Yeah the problem is that if I am seen to be not working it'll look bad. Some kind of online course might be a good idea though. I normally take my German book down to lunch.[/i]
Has Mein Kampf turned out to be a good read?
Can your job and work as a motorcycle courier. We all win that way. Have you ever done a really filthy, dirty, dangerous job? I kind of think everyone should at some point so they have a sense of perspective.
Or read Andy Cave's book, Learning To Breathe. It's ostensibly a climbing autobiography, but the first half is about working as a miner in Thatcher's Britain, you might just appreciate that while you're bored, there are plenty of worse places to be.
And if you don't like where you are, don't whine, change things.
mrsgrips - MemberIt's such a pity we all cannot run around naked and do what ever creative fun we want whenever we want.
mrsgrips, you are in germany.. this isn't thought of as a taboo. get stuck in.
I agree with molgrips. If you have a febrile brain and are used to intense working, long slack periods are like torture for the soul. Especially when the sun is shining through the window.
People in our kinds of job should be given time-banks so that the vast amounts of unpaid extra time we put in, we get back as free-time during slack periods.
Lots of sandy vaginas in here!
I'm with you Mol - you have my sympathy. I'm in a bit of a quiet period at work at the moment and it's really starting to affect me. I have lost the motivation to do anything, my self confidence is taking a beating (I like to be busy!) and I'm utterly miserable.
I have some really spanky****y borders to put into a parquet floor, before polishing and finishing next week. If any IT dudes fancy helping for a day, I'll lend some kneepads and a facemask 🙂
I want an insoluble problem with a critical deadline
I had a serious boredom problem and spent an awful lot of time farting about on here. Then I got an insoluble problem with a critical deadline and I can confirm that it is much better.
If there is no question of your current employer finding something to amuse you spend your time learning new stuff, then get a new job.
Or just show them this thread and await compulsory reassignment to the job market. 😀
molgrips - Member
Work is disorganised, unproductive and stupid. This results in low pressure low expectations.
However, as you can probably tell from my volume of posting, it's doing my nut! I appreciate idling as much as anyone, but the lack of direction and drive is not doing my state of mind any favours.
Anyone else trying really hard to care about their tasks at work?
Couldn't do that ! insult to my intelligence
You must be hanging in there because you have to?
Dam double post
Junkyard - MemberHow much pressure is there associated with not being under pressure?
I went mad tbh. After years of never having enough resources to do the job right it turned out I'd forgotten how to function in a sane environment.
i was the same a couple weeks ago mol
boss ****ed off and left me very little work - did some of my core competencys for work and updated the CV. - unlike that lad who went to his bosses boss and complained 😀 - mong
bored out my tits - he then came back and said - figure out why this doesnt work - which has involved me looking through about 100 different cases for a link to when they worked 90% o the time and ****ed up the other few times and then making waterhammer maths fit my theory , graphing data and putting together a presentation for powers that be
much better mood this week 😀 - next week i get to repeat it for other tools we have - joy
then probably get told in the presentation that im talking shite - but at least i feel like im busy and not justpassing time - was beginning to feel like a prison that i drive my self to and lock my self into during daylight hours 🙁
- sitting doing nothing all day makes you tired as **** too !
Chuckle@alpin 🙂
You must be hanging in there because you have to?
To be honest it's easy money, despite the frustration. The folk are good, the canteen's ok, the commute is good - just venting a bit, that's all 🙂
Course it'd be better if it weren't in Germany...