Category Archives: 9 to 5 Culture
How to Call in Sick to Work
Everyone needs some time off. Everyone gets sick. Whether you belong in the former camp or the latter, your boss my not believe you when you tell him you have the sniffles (or a fever of 107) and need a day. If you know the right way to call in sick, you can make this [...]
Promoting Monotasking
How long would your job last if you ignored all phone calls, e-mail, requests from your co-workers, meetings, and kept your door locked all nine hours of your day allowing nobody in? You’d probably be fired within a very short period of time. But if you did this while getting your work done, allowing absolutely [...]
Following the Crowd
I took the car to work today. On my way to the office I watched everyone slow down and begin the standard 5-mile an hour crawl into downtown at the same place it always begins. A multitude of cars, SUVs and Ford 4x4s each with the same destination. The words “saturated market” crossed my mind [...]
Hate Your Job?
Is this your boss? Scared of coming to work? This is a really funny rant website. I already have a link to it in my sidebar. Word of caution, however. Whatever you do, though, do NOT log onto that site while you are at work! I think I read somewhere on there that someone was [...]
Forty-Hour Workweek? (Part 2)
Also see: Forty-Hour Workweek? (Part 1) In yesterday’s post, I examined how the amount of time many of us are losing to our jobs is a lot more than we might have guessed. But what about the other side of it? How much time do we have on a typical weeknight when we are not [...]
Forty-Hour Workweek?
So, you think the standard work-week in the US is 40 hours, and everything else is our time, right? Think again. When you factor in smashing you alarm in the morning, showering, getting ready, driving to your place of employment, your mandatory lunch “break,” and driving back at the end of the day, your job [...]
Sedentary Workers
Where do people spend the most time being inactive? Here’s a hint for you: it is not in front of the TV after a day at the office. No, it’s actually AT the office. Many of us work 8, 9 or more hours a day and spend a great majority of that time just sitting. [...]
The Toll of Being an Employee
Here is a categorized list that I came up with in about fifteen minutes. I have the feeling that if I spent an hour my list would run longer than wordpress would allow for a single entry. Low Self Esteem * Feeling like a lackey * Being told what to do * Sucking up to [...]
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