Poll: How Much Time do You Spend Actually Working? (NSR)

Out of sheer curiosity and because I watched Office Space for the umpteenth time last night, I am wondering - how much time, of your average 8 hour worday, do you spend actually working?

Work? I haven't done that in months!

heh... its funny how no one really wants to answer this

I'd say in a given week I get a good 15 minutes of work done.

Too bad you can't say to your boss "you know, I usually only really work about three hours per day, so I'm just going to come in from noon until three tomorrow, m'kay?"

Ha! Great Poll. Fuckin' A.

Monday thru Friday minimum 6:30am - 5:00pm. Half hour for lunch. Sometimes have to pull a Saturday also. Wht the FUCK am I thinking???????

Non of you business, not let me get back to the board!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Some days it's less than 15 minutes but others it's 10+ hours.

I'm self employed. If I don't work, I don't eat.
It's still not too bad though. I'm out on the road until noon and then spend the afternoon in my home office doing paperwork. I know I could not survive for ten seconds crammed in a cubicle somewhere. Really, this is about as removed from a real job as you can get. I've been at it for 25 years now so I guess it's a career. Decent money small amounts of b.s. and I pretty much control my own destiny. The down side is my busy season conflicts with skiing however, I take a lot of long weekends to make up for it.

Zero.

That will change soon.

Edit: I forgot to add that there's a few studies out that suggest that there's only actually 28 hours of "work" done in the typical 40-hour week. I tend to believe it. People that only contribute the base 40-hours to their employers are normally weak. Anyone that thinks or practices a 40-hour work week doesn't usually last too long nowadays.

The answer to climbing the corporate ladder:

It's not how hard you work. It's how hard you appear to be working.

Some days I would have nothing to do and spent nearly the whole day on the board. Other days, I'd have a ton of shit and would stay late to finish it. That was just the nature of my job. The funny thing was that even though I was bored out of my mind from a general lack of work (I asked numerous times for more), people thought I was doing a kick ass job.

Agreed 100% Arty. In my previous days in the corporate world, I busted my butt. It was tough work, both physically and mentally, (which doesn't happen too often (as it's normally one of the other)). When I actually got lunches, I refused to shop talk, and I made friends with people I worked with.

I had a couple of meetings with my boss about the "perception" that I wasn't doing the best job I could. Even though we agreed that everything that was actually measureable was being done at or above expectations, it didn't matter. If someone "perceived" that I wasn't doing my work, then I wasn't. This "perception" ultimately led to the demise of my position. I thought doing a good job was actually working at it and doing a good job. I know better now. I see you and I both met the same fate, but took different paths.

"find a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life"

Bump for relevance to the "what do you do at work" thread on page 1 today