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No, I won’t. The second I leave the office, work is over. At this point, I am going on hour ten and am a brutal combination of hungry and angry. The last thing I want to do is bring my laptop home to continue doing more work, but it is little fibs like this that the keep the wheels spinning and make the other person on the end of the line feel really good about the situation/emergency that has sparked the conversation.
The honest truth is there will not be an ounce of work done by this guy the second I walk into my house for three reasons.
1. If this situation has come up, it is at the end of the day when my brain is fried. I will be completely useless even I really did want to resolve the issue. 10 to 12 hours of productivity is all you are going to get out of me. If I have to go home to a couple more hours of work it will be very sub par.
2. I hate bringing work home with me. There needs to be a separation between work and home and it starts with me not answering your emails and trying to put out fires at the end of the day. See reason #1. You want a disgruntled employee? Go ahead – rob me of the four hours of the day I have outside of this place.
3. Working from home is never really work. Everyone knows that when you “work from home,” it means you log on to Lync or Gchat just to give the illusion that you are online handling business when really all that has been accomplished is you have skimmed through your inbox. The reality is that this guy has completely mailed it in if I’m outside of the office. If I need to get work done, it is going to get done in an environment that does not contain my XBox or a queen-sized bed.
The past four months have been spent on a job site far away from the comfort of my home and my wife. So even when I leave the job trailer after twelve solid hours, I’m not going home. I will be grabbing some food and most likely immediately heading back to a hotel room. My wife is not there, and neither are my pets. And the bed I lay on is completely foreign. But just because I’m not home doesn’t mean I am on business 24 hours a day. Sadly, I feel like this is expected even though most times, nothing is so important that it can’t wait until the next day.
We’ve all heard “Honesty is the best policy,” so maybe it is time to take a stand. Maybe it is time to start being a little more honest with myself and my employer. Maybe I should start saying “I’ll look at it in the morning. I’m getting the fuck out of this place and relaxing for a bit.”
Or something like that..
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@207Cush
Accurate. AF.
“Wow, how dare you put your personal needs before the needs of the company. That’s just the kind of 9-5 mentality that we refuse to accept at this establishment. If you’re not checking your email at 8:00 on a Saturday you clearly lack the drive of a successful team member.”
Jesus who do you work for? Stalin?
Not anymore luckily but this was the attitude of everyone at the first job I worked out of college. They let me go after two months of working there and it was possibly the best thing to happen to me as a post grad. Much better off now.
Most of the time I feel extremely accomplished just by not being 2 beers deep by 4:30 much less take work home with me.
Money never sleeps.
As soon as I wake up I start working and I probably work another 1-2 hours once I get home and plan on sundays as well. 9-5 jobs might feel good, but don’t pay as well.
well aren’t you cool…
I realized the amount of hate I’d get as soon as I posted. What I’m saying is it’s a trade off. You want to not do anything after 5? Well you can, but then don’t expect to get paid that much. That’s just how the world works.
Not necessarily true.
Rent’s due soon, Bob.
Allegedly
I’m the minority but if I put in 60 days on a ship I’m going to do whatever I want for the 60 days I’m off. Mainly make up for lost time abusing my liver but I’ll also take time to refuse to acknowledge the presence of email or work calls.