BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: John P
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:05 AM

Wow, you folks need to find new jobs! I can't imagine spending all day, everyday, doing something so stupid and boring that you are able to convince yourselves that ripping off your employer is really in their best interest.

How about trying this: find things to do at work that are interesting and profitable, and encourage all your co-workers to do the same. Take over your department, whether you have a "manager" or not. Become a self-managed workplace. Set higher quality standards. Improve the product. Find out why and where you have all this slack time, and find out the same about your co-workers. Figure out how to combine all that spare time and use it to do your manager's work. Go to your manager's boss and tell him or her that your department can get all your manager's work done even if the manager is gone. Get a raise for eveyone. Better yet, go work for a small company where people acutally get treated like people. It usually doesn't pay as well, but it is worth it.

Come on, folks, you spend most of your time at work. It sounds like many of you are getting bored, discouraged, and ethically challenged by being completely disconnected from what you are doing all day. You might have better lives if you were to engage in what you are doing, or go do something else that interests you in any way.

John Peekstok

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: gnu
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:12 AM

Work ??? !!! United and Liverpool have just kicked off !!! No work for at least two hours ! Go Liverpool !

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:29 AM

Bruce-- Sure, we have a few good books at Germantown, though if you've really "exhausted" the resources at Gaithersburg (the largest library in Montgomery County) you can consider yourself very well read indeed! Come in and see us sometime!

Cheers, Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: Bernard
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:35 AM

I rarely look at Mudcat at work, there just isn't time. I deal with the odd personal email if it's 'urgent', but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I'm a 'home' Mudcatter, as my phone bill will prove...

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: Greyeyes
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:03 AM

Lunch break only, apart from occasional posts that are work related (to do with resources in the music department). My line manager is an occasional lurker on the Mudcat and knows my online moniker, so I have to be conscientious.

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:41 AM

Just a slight exageration, I haven't read everything at Gathersburg. Mostly folk songs and ballads. But most good stuff is in the reference section, like some folk, a few editons of Grove's Dictionary, old pop songs and old plays-e.g., the dates that Kitty Clive sang her Gaelic "Aileen Aroon", and Mr. Birkhead's "Jack on the Green" was performed (very popular tune later). I've also used the reference book there on libraries to find contacts, and got the tune "Peggy Darby, or the Dandies' [best known as "Bonnie Lass of Fyvie, O", opr "Constitution and Guerierre", or Judge Learned Hand's "The Iron Merrimac" (Merrimack in Levy collection] now) in vol. 3 of Aird's Airs from the Forbes Library in Northampton, Mass.

Subject: RE: BS: How many of us are wasting time at work?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM

I only waste time at work betwwen Mudcat sessions!!