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Due to various problems involving IT and a £999999999 contract with a v. large customer, I'm still at work nearly two hours after I should've left. Please post stuff below that will cheer me up or allow me to make light of the situation.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Nitemare! I worked over by half an hour than I usually do, that was enough!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I understand, robster. I get shakey if I have to stay at work beyond 5pm at all!

What are you into? (so we can cheer you up)

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_SeU59-fui0C:www.explodingdog.com/dumbpict51/cheerup.gif

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I just did a couple of 12 hour shifts to get a project done so I could go on vacation recently. But thats not much. The two people surrounding me in cubicle land have been documented to have not left the office three days running once. Back when they cared.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

*entire of america rolls eyes*

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, that was harsh. But it does seem like the UK has an attitude that's more friendly to the worker, and sometimes I just get jealous of it. I'm mental about work though and should realize that I'm not the norm.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinkpanther, that's one of my desktop wallpaper thingies!

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the encouragement folks (& sorry teeny). As it turned out, about 5 minutes after starting the thread, my new favourite manager popped round and told me to go home (he did ask if I could go on call but accepted when I point-blank refused).

Am now at home drinking wine. Hurrah! (sorry to americans who are at work right now)

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ace picture BTW Pinkpanther. I love explodingdog!

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yay rob!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It's 10 till 5 and I'm cutting my lesson planning short to go home and grade. Joy.

Last night I didn't leave school till 7:15. :(

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

*entire of america rolls eyes*

seriously. but I saw an interesting article recently saying that while we work more hours than anyone else in the world we have the same population-adjusted productivity overall (was it per hour? I don't think so) as France and I think Sweden (Norway?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

just got home! only a 12 hour day!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

American productivity on rise along with depression, burnout for workers
'Lazy' Germans Urged to Work More to Revive Growth

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

of course I spent a lot of that 12 hours on ilx but hey.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still at the office (5:47 pm) but I'd hardly call this working.

― mte, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

this is taken from my buddy, keith's, blog about how his job was when he moved back to Japan from the states

Let me ask you this: Have you ever slept at your office? Well, get this - a lot of people who work at Business Architects do on a regular basis, and I don't mean just one or two nights. Kazsh, a Flash genius, once told me that he had stayed at the office for 2 weeks straight. Geeee, that's 14 days, man. Can you imagine not being able to go home from work for 14 days?? He's got a wife and a little kid for fuck sakes!! …well, thanks to sento and spas, you can at least get cleaned up once in a while (I usually washed my hair in the sink). Most people working on the frontline (i.e. designers & programmers) have sleeping bags under their desks (some just sleep on the floor, flat out! Yugo was using an empty Dreamweaver box as his pillow. I thought that was cool as hell…). Anyway, I got mine on the 2nd week and my record turned out to be 5 days (105-hour workweek!). So naturally I spent a lot of time with the work folks, and I've made some great friends (and a few enemies [sigh]).

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

my bestest friend in tokyo's schedule is 10am-1am 6-7 days a week.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

How do people think America and Japan got like this? Will they evolve as a nation into being like lazy Europe eventually? Or am I looking at the wrong way around, and are we old world powers living on borrowed time?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course this analysis wouldn't in itself why we in the UK work much longer hours than most of the EU.

The UK is in every possible way somewhere between the USA and continental Europe - discuss

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe we work longer hours than most of the EU because we work inefficiently. And my guess as to why we work inefficiently is that ppl are not encouraged (or are actively discouraged) from making improvements to the way work is done in the UK by their managers. Prolly UK has more emphasis on status in the workplace, "You can't decide that as you're only a Grade 5" or whatever.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's not forget that these crazy hours are WRONG and an ABOMINATION. Even people who love their jobs, like Teeny or my mum, need to be adjusted enough to enjoy a happy and productive life away from the workplace.

My chosen career doesn't have set hours - you work if there's work to be done, and if there isn't, you're not doing your job properly. Never finish early, often finish late. Not that I'd really know, of course, as I'm an unemployed slacker. Though see thread I'm just about to start for possible course of action...

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

...life away from the workplace?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

For computer geeks its part of the programming lifestyle. You pick it up in university (or earlier), lan parties or several projects in upper classes which require countless hours in the lab most of which spent playing UT, Doom2, Doom or whatever.
They don't question us when we arrive late, leave early or don't show up at all. All they care is we work apx 37.5 hours a week and our project with its randomly decided completion date finishes on time.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That actually happens?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

...so close... 112 pages down, 48 to go...

....think of the billable hours....

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

GMAIL JUST FUCKED UP MY RESUME

TRUCKBOMBS!!!!!!

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Monday, 1 August 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

80+ hour weeks :(

― wilter, Thursday, 28 January 2010 08:59 (sixteen years ago)

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