I don't work at work anymore
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Anonymous
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For OP:
Eventually, I get bored of the internet. I keep lists so that I can cross of accomplishments. I recommend you seek some new challenge at work. Being bored at work is the worst. For those who have no shame... this will catch up to you. |
Anonymous
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This was me when I used to work (SAHM now). I always busted my butt at work until I came back from having #1. Then, I busted my butt when we were swamped, but if we weren't or we just had average workflow, I did my required work and then NOTHING the rest of the day. It was even worse after I went back from having #2. I hardly worked at all for about three months. I felt really weird about it but I just couldn't bring myself to focus. Oddly enough, management still loved me.
Long story short, I left work to be home with my kids. I do miss the paycheck because, as I often told my husband, I got paid a lot to do a lot of nothing. Boy, how things change. I rarely have a minute of rest during the day and am physically and mentally exhausted at the end of the day (4YO and 1YO boys at home). And I don't get paid. Funny how it works out. |
Anonymous
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I used to work in corporate PR and had so little to do that there were whole weeks in which I accomplished no actual work. It was soul killing. There was nothing to do but I had to look busy and I had to stay till 6 every night. I felt like I was going to get to the end of the Internet.
Even now I am much busier at work, but still not so busy that I could fill a whole day with real work. I think most office jobs are like this. It's such a waste. |
Anonymous
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I do feel this way (baby is 6 mo) and unlike pp's I'm not happy about it - frustrated with myself, actually.
And to the nannies posting on this thread - you're so, so obvious. |
Anonymous
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This is why so many of the jobs that are going away during this recession are not coming back. Employers are finding our that they can do without a significant number of their employees. I think employers had a certain number of employees, and never adjusted when computerization made people more efficient. I have a relative who is a head hunter, and she says that most of their clients are just cutting "dead wood."
Agree that your employer knows who is productive and who is not, and when the first occasion comes, the non-productive ones will be the first out the door. For what it's worth, I'm a government lawyer who is so busy that some days I'm lucky if I have time to go to the bathroom. I supervise some people who work really hard and some who don't, I know exactly who they are. |
Anonymous
Get an iPad with Verizon or AT&T. Use it at work. |
Anonymous
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I didn't have that issue when I went back to work after maternity leave. For me, it came later as a result of mid-career burn. It sounds to me, OP, that may be what you are going through. For me, it was a combination of reaching a point where I'd been doing the same thing in the same place for a long time, combined with the fact that the quantity and quality of the work assignments declined for a while (due to outside factors, political and economic). There would be days when I could barely make myself do any work and then I would just cram it all at the last minute to make my deadline. I always did the work, it was just a matter of a lot of procrastination in between. When I got sick of that pattern I decided to avail myself of whatever opportunities for change were available. I sought different assignments, temporary transfers to different teams/offices, etc. Eventually, it drove me to seek a position within the same office with more responsibility. That was something that I had not been interested in for many years prior, but I realized eventually that my boredom and lack of motivation was a sign that I had to make a change. I'm now much busier and happier. And because I have new responsibilities and am still on a learning curve, I don't anticipate hitting that boredom wall again for a while.
In short, my suggestion to you, OP, is to shake things up a little and think of opportunities to try new assignments, change departments, try a temporary assignment detail, etc. |
Anonymous
Nope I get 150k to putz 
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Anonymous
My kids are in elementary school. I pick them up right after. Bite me. |
Anonymous
Nope. My nanny took a 2 hour nap when my son did. I wah. I encouraged it. She was all business when she was awake. I was very flexible with her since my employer is with me. You work harder for people that treat you well. |
Anonymous
 ..........and your point is?
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Anonymous
I don't have a nanny (or ever did) so I am not begruding any phone calls. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
I am amashed why? I complete the entire amount of work I am required to complete at the end of each 40-hour week cycle and have passed every quality exam/review of my work for the last 16 years. There are some people in my position that take much longer to get the same amount I do done. My friend was one of them. I have always been a fast reader/analyzer. I do not feel guilty or immoral. I am not cheating anyone. In fact, I am one of the most celebrated workers in my office. |
Anonymous
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So why don't you tell your boss you don't need 40 hours and stay at home a few more hours a week with your children?
Are you paid by the hour?
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