How do you deal with the "boss who is always there"?
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Anonymous
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If you get in at 6:35AM, he is there. Still in at 7:30PM? Same thing. Not a bad human being, but you get the idea.
His inquiries are valid vs. the workaholic counting paper clips at 8:00PM, but lives close enough to the office that he could ride a unicycle to work. IMHO, low 50s hours/week unless there is a special project that requires more time is appropriate. This guy is 60+. How do you set boundaries. I am not interested in being a burned out mess or worse. |
Anonymous
| My boss is like this. Does he care if you are there? No one is going to set a boundary for you so just do what you need to do and see how it goes. |
Anonymous
| Some men at like this and have nothing to come home to. Be happy you have a home life to enjoy. Work whatever hours you are contracted to work. |
Anonymous
I am at work a lot. Not so much anymore But I did not expect me staff to be there. And no did not hate home, just I was Head of Area and optically good to be there. As such I had my Doctor, Dentist, Eye Doctor, Dry Cleaner, by work. I also met up with people at lunch or such and even did bill pay, shop for insurance at work. But I got paid a lot more and my big boss the CEO was an earlybird and the boss I reported to who reported to CEO was more of a get in later person. So to be there for them I be at work 8am to 7 pm all the time. But that is why I got paid more. My staff left between 400 pm and 5pm and did zero OT. And I let them leave early holidays ands such and I stay behind. Those extra two hours hours is why I made 100k more. And also why I ran errands, went to dentists, got holiday cards, at lunch time as I had less free time after work and during day dept fully staffed. I was only of much use an emergency in morning or after work. I think I could have worked 7-9 and 5-7 and skipped the other hours to be honest |
Anonymous
The problem is,at any higher level job, there is ALWAYS something you could review or investigate. When is the logical place for the day to stop? |
Anonymous
Set an 8 to 9 hour day, work efficiently, stop at your scheduled stop time. Despite all the people bragging about their 60 hour weeks, people are not really productive more than 30 hours a week. The workaholics are rarely putting in "good" time, your boss included. |
Anonymous
A Stanford study proved that anything greater than 50 hours is unproductive. But every office has the nobody works more hours than me bragger. |
Anonymous
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Like the other poster asked, does your boss care how long you are in?
If he is not micromanaging you and if he (and others) seems to be generally happy with your work, you are doing fine. If you are at a higher level, part of that is the ability to figure out what must be done today and what can wait for tomorrow. Let us say you are new here and are not up to speed, take your boss’s and the team’s help to learn. Bottom line is that your boss’s hours and yours don’t need to match. You do your job well, then no one would (should) bat an eye when you leave. |