Work Ethic

[Adam]

edit: I think I mean more morale than ethic.

How is yours?

Mine is pretty low - all the small annoyances of general working for a living and trouble getting to work are coming to a head. I know I'm highly appreciated at work but the pay is low and the commute is long and when the snow and ice is like it is then it kinda get amplified.

If things go my way I only need a job until April this year so its hardly worth changing. And I thought this job would of ended by now so when I took it I saw light at the end of the tunnel. (n)

[Randetica]

i did quite some hard work but never got paid for it maybe cause i never had a job but im definitely not lazy

i cant sit still when i know i got something to do

[checkyourprez]

edit: I think I mean more morale than ethic.

How is yours?

Mine is pretty low - all the small annoyances of general working for a living and trouble getting to work are coming to a head. I know I'm highly appreciated at work but the pay is low and the commute is long and when the snow and ice is like it is then it kinda get amplified.

If things go my way I only need a job until April this year so its hardly worth changing. And I thought this job would of ended by now so when I took it I saw light at the end of the tunnel. (n)

what happens in april?

[Adam]

Travel again hopefully (y)

I phoned in sick today - pretty much what I was getting at with this thread. I didn't know what to do at the time of writing original post, don't care about the money too much and I may take the rest of the week off to let all the new year madness die down.

[Gareth]

work morale is ok; i like my job but am not loving the location
i pretty much want the same job, but in another country/city

[Ty Webb]

seriously, man the fuck up. 6 months ago i was a veterinary tech and got laid off. now i work in a beer warehouse for considerably less money cause there's no work here. sorry i just get angry about the subject.

[hpdrifter]

I have this friend who left his job voluntarily 6 months or so ago. He's been living off of unemployment since then and shows no sign of trying to get a new job. He actually bragged about "throwing" an interview he got by going out drinking all night the night before which is pretty much what he does every night any way. He got an offer from another place and turned it down. Now he's talking about trying to get food stamps.

By the way, he lives in a nice townhome he owns and drives a Mercedes.

[MC Moot]

Today is my first day back in the office in 2 weeks…it strikes me that the difference between having a “job” VS a “career” is that when you take holiday’s from your “job” your task load is covered by someone else…so that when you return to work, you start a fresh page…a “career” simply means that the tasks never stop from being accumulated and you’re met with a god-awful backload of shit to catch up on…the responsibility does not stop with your absence…today I wish I just had a “job”…pass me the shovel, must not stop…I can almost see my desk...the ethic is therefore unscrupulous...(n)

[jabumbo]

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By the way, he lives in a nice townhome he owns and drives a Mercedes.


shit's ridiculous


but i think i have to side with ty webb here. if you can manage to only work until april before taking time off to go on some lengthly vacation, you've got jack shit to complain about. i am elated that my financial situation isn't so bad, but i can in no means afford to stop working for more days than my alloted time that i get from work.


i mean, shit, the only thing i could possibly want more in the form of work morale is even the smallest of raises being that i've never gotten one yet after working 2 and a half years at this place and my list of capabilities has grown exponentially since then.

[hpdrifter]

Today is my first day back in the office in 2 weeks…it strikes me that the difference between having a “job” VS a “career” is that when you take holiday’s from your “job” your task load is covered by someone else…so that when you return to work, you start a fresh page…a “career” simply means that the tasks never stop from being accumulated and you’re met with a god-awful backload of shit to catch up on…the responsibility does not stop with your absence…today I wish I just had a “job”…pass me the shovel, must not stop…I can almost see my desk...the ethic is therefore unscrupulous...(n)

I had the same thought when I woke up at 3am in a panic attack about what was going to face me when I got to work this morning after a little over a week off. Sometimes I wish I had the kind of job I could leave behind at the end of the day. The kind of job I don't have to think about when I am trying to sleep at night and on the weekends and pretty much all the time.

I'm happy to have a job, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I think about chucking it all and going to work at a coffee shop or something.

[MC Moot]

I had the same thought when I woke up at 3am in a panic attack about what was going to face me when I got to work this morning after a little over a week off. Sometimes I wish I had the kind of job I could leave behind at the end of the day. The kind of job I don't have to think about when I am trying to sleep at night and on the weekends and pretty much all the time..

arghhhh!...me too!...I was up at the same time and it also took me about 2hrs to get to sleep...anxiety satrted to build 3 day's before my return...my legs were kicking away like mad,running the scenario through my head...should be better tonight,I hope...I did however sleep til or past noon on 5 of those day's off...which reminded me of the "slacker" years I had during my mid 20's...sleeping late and smoking tea...:rolleyes:

[hpdrifter]

...anxiety satrted to build 3 days before my return...

Me too. I even got online and did some work Sunday evening to prevent the inevitable Monday clusterfuck.

It helped a little, but it was still a wildly irritating morning.

[rirv]

This morning was the worst morning I've had in ages.

Having had two weeks off school, spending most of it on my face, and leaving all preperation til the last minute I couldn't get to sleep last night. Must have eventually managed about four hours. Felt terrible driving in in minus temperatures. First period of the day had to face my worst class. They were terrible. I was terrible. Oh my days I hated every minute of today. Better prepared for tomorrow though, so feeling good, had some whisky. Ace.

[BangkokB]

STFU and GBTW LOL(y)

[yeahwho]

They pay me the same if I'm happy or pissed off. I haven't been bringing my "A" game to work lately. But I remain happy even during the crummy deeds. Because literally I get paid the same if I'm happy or pissed off. Payroll don't give a shit about my feelings. That part is up to me.

I can usually do both, bring the "A" game and assist those around me so they look great, lately I've stepped back from trying to limelight it and started to be a bit of a sycophant so others shine. My personal productivity goes down but the general morale of the workplace goes up if I instill confidence in my fellow workers.

I'm an extremely high energy employee. It's to the point of embarrassing at times so lately I have been listening and watching others more to try and find a good equilibrium.

I'm at work now and I think I'll walk in the head then walk back across the floor to my project with a 6' length of toilet paper trailing out the rear of my pants. Yep. I'm gonna do it.

[Adam]

I took the week off, after making this thread monday I turned a lot of noise down and off - as in this site, news sites, general modern life and I feel loads better for it.

I didn't take time off over Christmas and really wanted to - now I feel I've had a break like everyone else I can get back to it next week. I'll miss the weeks pay yeah but fuck it, this week at work I think would of been stressful and I was ready to pack it all in at the start of it... I really see it as if I've saved myself looking for a new job (y)

[paul jones]

Sometimes I'll get a bag of Quavers from the machine or sometimes an Aero