Laying Down on the Job

I like to leave early to make up for arriving late.
I generally try to keep the give and take even, I think the company does pretty well out of it. Mind, being semi-retired I feel I can call the shots to some extent, heck if they don't like it they can fire me.
In the good old days, if there wasn't the work you could mess about with your own electronics stuff...current management doest seem to understand this unwritten law of electronics design (isn't it how most of us old guys learned?).
I generally find that even working a 3 day week, I'm always waiting on someone else to do their bit. (dunno if I'm quick or they are slow)

Del

Of corse this was not me, but if you write in your time on yo time card, you could round the time back to the nearest quarter hour with clocking out and round the clock forward to the nearest quater hour when you clock out.

must be why they use badges now

These state workers from New York take the cake, having built themselves a man cave. To wit:

"In July, state investigators uncovered the room, in which they reportedly found couches, board games, a television, DVDs, rolling papers and a drug scale."

Some years ago I worked as a copier repair technician. I liked my work and was considered very good at it by my coworkers and employer.

One problem I had was that they typically rounded up service call hours when billing time out so it was common for me to do many small service calls in a day and see a daily bill out of 12+ hours ($76.50 Hr) even though only got paid for 8 ($8.40 Hr) and never saw overtime or compensation pay for the difference either.

When I realized that this is how they did things I started shaving my work time to balance out the billing time being it was most fair to the customer of course.

Many days I spent an extra hour or two at the local library or college or when doing my out of town service routes I would just park some place and take a nap or simply come home for a few hours!

I am probably the only person to ever un pad a time card just to make sure things where right with the customer.

My boss told me he didn't want me to use the bathroom on the premises, so I sometimes drove to a blueroom, or shit in the woods.

A lot of people like this guy, but I consider him a shithead.

Like most, I'll apply the, 'Several years ago', cammo before I say: As an apprentice dental prosthetics technician I often used machines designed to degas metals to melt the internal metals of coins w/ out melting the shell material then puncture the plating to see it all flow out. As long as the machine was operating, I was doin' my job. In really lean times I could build miniature siege weapons from various supplies. The humor in this account is in the fact that I was actually scolded for taking naps. This sleep NEVER happened, but my back was always facing the only view to my room. Anyone passing by a bent-over guy might think he was nodding-off.

Does CR4 count?

NO, IT'S EJUCATION

Do not misunderestimate₁ the value of being lazy...

After all, I once married a pregnant woman!

Footnote 1: Ya gotta love George Bush. He gave us a lot of new words!

In the early seventies I ran a shop in a small college. Since I did all the machining (both work and "government"), I knew almost all the other employees. So, there was an awards ceremony and I'm sitting with a group of old plumbers and electricians (who between them went everywhere), and they start giving awards for length of service. We applauded for the men and women who got ten years pins, then twenty years, then a few got thirty years pins, and then...they called up the oldest employee and gave him a forty-two year service pin. And, none of us had ever seen the guy before! And I never did afterwards. To this day I have no idea who the heck he was or where he hid.

aahhh, a master and his appentice.

Lying _{lying lying}

Laying is what chickens do.

Years ago I worked for Marconi at a factory that employed about 3000 people, they discovered that 2 guys had been taking it in turns to clock each other in so that they each got every other day off. They thought that they had got away with this for 5 years.

My current employer is very fair on the give & take front. They're happy for us to run our hobby firework display business out of the design office & I'm happy to bring in my own equipment or do some work at home if required.

Excellent, just how it should be.
The other day I made up a quick holding fixture using an offcut from one of my bow staves, it was viewed with some amusement, followed by amazement when it worked brilliantly.
Del

When I was growing up, I was taught that getting paid for less than a days work was the same as stealing from the company. I saw it every day when I was in the work place. To me it's a moral issue. People just don't relate stealing with goofing off.

People just don't relate stealing with goofing off.

They should, you also have to look at the norms within the company. And that is when you find the problems.

or

Do I give 100% or even 110% every day..........hell no, an for a number of reasons, mostly from a issue of health. Now we'll get into Semitics. A project has to get out to secure an order. You have only about 2 hours of work left, you wish you had finished it the day before, but the day before you clocked 18 hours of work (this does not incuded breaks) but you were feeling a little under the weather. So you figure you would wrap it up tomorrow. When complete an order will be issued.

Well tomorrow arrives and you are running 101 degree temperture. The smart thing, is to stay home. but a whole department is counting on this for work continuation (layoffs is the alternative)

But since you are under the weather it takes you 9 hours to do 2 hours of work when healthy. One good thing, everybody leaves you alone because you are sick, and thier next mortgage is coming out of thier next pay check because the unemployment check won't cover it.

p911

When I was in the work place, I wasn't on an 8 hour schedule. My job was to accomplish the task within a certain time. 6 hours one day; 10 hours the next and so on. Some times I would appear not doing anything, but I was thinking. You don't have to have a pencil in your hand to be thinking. Off course this doesn't work in every situation. People tend to take advantage of situations. I don't consider myself a work-a-holic. I do take my job seriously though; not because of fear of losing my job, but because I enjoy what I'm doing and think I'm giving the company it's money's worth.

I don't consider myself a work-a-holic.

work-a-holic's usually don't.

My job was to accomplish the task within a certain time. 6 hours one day; 10 hours the next and so on.

I rarely see single tasks, handling multple through out the day projects, I can only give estimates, and even when conservative it's always turns out to be more......

I was once a work-a-holic. But I started going to WAA classes.

Now I have not touched work in years!

Whenever I am tempted by work I go and sit down until the need passes.

Should anyone offer me work I simply turn it down and say, No thank you its not for me.

I used to work with a guy who got a job contracting in a very large aerospace development/manufacturing company. After a while they asked him if he would work nights because the guys on that shift could never get much done because when they ran into a problem they just gave up. The first night everyone found time to chat to him, so that they could suss him out. The second night they told him that what they actually did was work a couple of hours, then they had a key for the first aid room where they all went to sleep the rest of the night. His greater knowledge helped them get a lot more work done so it looked (to management) as though adding him to the team had had the desired effect. This went on for several months until one night he arrived for work: all his colleagues were lined up and he was introduced to a couple of police detective. He joined the end of the line.

They went along the line "Where were you last night, and, what were you doing?"
"I was here working."
When it got to his turn, he had to toe the line with his mates.
"Perhaps you'd all like to turn round and explain how you missed that then?"
They all turned round. There was a six foot hole in the wall where some thieves had blown a safe the previous night.

Lazyness is an art form that has to be crafted and perfected.

I remember in one of Spike Milligans books "Musolini his part in my downfall" I think it was. His sargent needed something done, singled out Milligan and told him to do it. He did the task then asked why he had to do it.

The sargent answered that. He (milligan) was the laziest of the lot and therefore would find the easyiest way to get the job done.

I have followed this policy ever since.

"Never be late twice in a day. If you're late coming in, don't be late doing home." - Anon

Having the ability or the determination to find the solution to a problem and correcting it. Giving 110% when there is a problem. Stick with it until it's resolve. An employer that recognizes what he has got in an employee. This is how I am able to be here.

It the problem that stimulates my mind in finding the answer. The learning along the way. A feeling of accomplishment when resolved. That why I am here.

As far as some one ratting me out. I bump heads with many here. Its hard to read minds and many times I wouldn't want too some people do some stupid shit. So no telling what going through their minds. Even so they would be telling them what they already know.

Stupid Shit asked to day why when depressing the stop button on a control why it don't stop. What if there was an emergency and need it to stop.

The emergency stop button was less the 12" on the same panel same eye level. All the buttons are well labeled. Emergency stop is red like required. This is from some one in supervisory position.

If he does no know what an E-Stop is, he should not be working by moving equipment. Not for his own safety but safety of others.........there is a difference between being lazy and stupidity.

p911

Luck has it they have light curtains to shut them down if they get close to anything that moves.

Nothing to do with luck.

An older friend of mine gave me this story a while back about a place he worked at I thought it was worth repeating.

Years ago I worked at a large manufacturing plant that had overlapping shift changes for 6 crews working 2 sets of off set shifts on three shift a day schedules.

We had a upper level manager that worked the full day shift. He never did all that much himself and he seemed to spend far more effort on finding ways to get others to do his work than had he done the work himself. Plus he was well known for being hard to find when he was actually needed.

After having heard enough stories from others who had dealt with him over who's work was who's and other stupid stuff it had came to our attention that he seemed to be very hard to find some days even for us maintenance guys who covered the whole building and grounds all day every day. He was always easy to find towards then end of the shift though and would usually say 'Well its obvious I am here since my car is in the parking lot right?' In a rather condescending and snooty tone to whom ever was looking for him.

A few of us in the building maintenance department knew what vehicle he drove and being management he parked in a different parking lot than the rest of the work force. One day we were working on some air conditioner units up on the roof when the shift change came about and we saw him drive in to the management parking lot and come in the building. About an hour later when the overlap shift left started leaving we saw him leave but go out to the other parking lot and take a different car. Hmm. So we starting watching him closer and on the days he was impossible to find his car was there but the other one was gone. He would still give us the 'Well my car was here so your apparently to dumb to find me' story when asked about his where abouts most days as well.

A few of us brought that to the attention of the upper level bosses and we came up with a simple plan. I and two of the top bosses parked the grounds maintenance truck in the parking lot behind his second car and waited there for him. Sure enough off set shift change came and he gets in his second car to leave after having been their for a whole hour. He came over to the truck to cuss us out for blocking him from leaving and found the to top dogs sitting there instead! He looked very surprised and quite panicked when the one big boss rolled down the window and said 'I will see you inside in a few minutes.' and rolled the window back up and motioned for me to drive away.

The next day neither car showed up and there was a new manager in his position a few days later. We figure he had been playing this game for at least 2 years without getting caught.

I am repeating history and don't care how this sounds, but had worked in a large contract, commercial and institution furniture manufacturer back in the late eighties/ early nineties, The manufacturing always had a shortage of people so it was pretty common (this plant employed about 1,000 people) that they where mandatory to work overtime.

There was quite a few Mongs, that integrated in the area and were working there, one of which was clocking over 100 hours a week (60 hours overtime) there, And when it was investigated, and the person was even question, after the investigation it was later found out that the husband had worked there and put down 50 hours and his wife would also work there and put in 50 hours a week also. Under the same name.

Supervisor was questioned and his response was, there was that not only was there a language barrier, but unless the two were standing side by side it was difficult to distinguished them apart. Office said that's impossible, but during the investigation, the office had interview both thinking it was the same person.

Soon after everyone had a badge with their picture

I had asked if this was a single incident or is it wide spread. The Manager face turn pale, and didn't answer.

Even though this iratated me, I do not know for what reason, bringing them to this country and then take advantage of a weakness in the system, but I did admire the stones they had to do it.

I have notced that even what appears to be laziness or even hard working, it turns out that they are just smart to not only find an easier way, but to get paid more for it.

p911

I did a similar thread as this on another web site and I thought this one was worth bringing over here as well! (And yes I got permission first.)

I worked at an industrial plant years ago and we had a row of lockers and shelves that went across the back of our service bay. Behind them was a small storage room that was an abandoned air compressor room from many years ago.

The lockers and shelves set out about 2 feet from the wall with the door to that room and if you didn't see the one small opening at the end, which always had stuff hanging over it of course, you wouldn't know there was a walk way and a secret room behind them. Many an hour was wasted by a few of us in our air room!

If someone said they needed to get some air a few of us knew what they meant. It was our code for I am going to take a nap and to let anyone looking for them know they are out on a service call and can't be reached.
Some days I still wish I worked there.

I can honestly say that I didn't screw around at work. It depends on the work place. I have always worked as a professional under a professional. I did my job and more because I enjoyed my job. I was treated as a professional so one must act accordingly. If I needed time off, no problem. My boss knew that I was giving more than 100%. There were times when I observed people goofing off; doing maybe 80%, but when it was necessary to work overtime, those same 80%ers would work all the overtime they could. My attitude was; if they worked 100%, there wouldn't be a need for overtime. It's workers like that who drive up costs. What ever happened to the old work ethic? I could go home at night and feel I have done my part and sleep well.

An excellent example:

http://bigjournalism.com/pgeller/2010/01/18/the-society-of-professional-journalists-why-we-never-get-the-straight-story-on-islamic-jihad/

Im such a slacker.

I sometimes slack-off slacking and end up doing some actual work!