Yes, when I was working 40+ hours a week on top of studying for exams, I recall commenting that I wanted a wife!
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your work load is so perfectly aligned with your productivity that if you are less productive you start to fail deadlines?
Sounds like youāre overworked imo
I work like 2 hours a day and I still get all my work done.
Check out Hardcore History.
Dan has a couple of long podcasts about Persia/Greece. Plus a great series about Japan in WWII. Six or seven parts of 3-5 hours each.
Those are free.
He has some for-pay podcasts, too. I understand the one on Ghengis Khan is quite good.
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The really nice thing about a 4-day work week (in a traditional non-WFH job) is that you have one day to do those errands, doctors appointments, etc. that are sometimes only doable during business hours on weekdays without needing to take time off.
10-hour days (plus any overage to get to stopping points, etc.) on a regular basis would suck, but presumably having three-day weekends, and being able to use more PTO for vacation rather than āpersonal businessā would offset the wear-and-tear for some people.
(My first employer after college had a 4Ā½ day work week ā we only worked a half-day on Wednesdays ā which is where I gained the appreciation for not needing to work during a few traditional weekday business hours.)
In addition to weekly/monthly/quarterly work, I have multiple long-term projects where it is difficult to determine the # of weeks/months they will take to complete.
Iām due for a new laptop and weāre hittting a critical point in the project, so I plan to go in some time in the next couple of weeks to see the gang!!
I worked at a place that in the summer time had āFlex Fridayā or something like that. You worked 9 hours a day but then had every other Friday off. The official program was 9 hours Monday to Thursday and then 8 hours on your āonā Friday. I got talked to because I was āleaving earlyā on my on Fridays after being there 8 hours. I was using my off Friday to interview for new jobs. The forced 9 hour day sucked but I think mostly because I really didnāt want to be there.
Iāve heard this referred to as ā9 9sā which of course works out to 81 hours, but Iāve usually seen it written that you only work 8 hours on your on Friday as well.
Iāve thought about ā4 9sā where you work 4 nine hour days and 1 four hour day each week. I go for short commutes so not eliminating a commute is no biggie. Similar idea to 9 9s. But these days Iām self-employed and part time anyway with no need to get in 80 hours every two weeks.
āLook at Brian over thereā¦ā
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When I came up for laptop replacement, I offered to go into the closest office (not āmy officeā, but one thatās actually local to me), but IT told me āno, itās OK; itās just as easy for us to ship it to your home as it is to ship it to an office.ā
Unfortunately, the part that didnāt come through that exchange is that it would have been easier for me to ask the on-site IT or mail staff to handle shipping the old laptop back, rather than my having to take responsibility for safely packing it, and making a special trip out to a shipping drop-off.
Everyone in our office has cleaned out their desks but we still have the offices available until we can find someone to sublet (or the lease runs out, whichever comes first). Last time I worked there I took a corner office - probably wonāt get that chance if offices are assigned.
I had one of those flex programs as well, was also while I was studying for exams so I was lectured for leaving early (never mind that there were several days when I worked later). Didnāt stay at that job very longā¦
They want to justify the expense of all this unused office space, and of course the feeling of more control over their employees. With all the layoffs going on the bosses feel like they have more control over their workforce and can dictate the terms again.
As for our company, we found that morale and employee retention increased since people had been working remotely so why mess with a good thing?
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Mine was sent back in the same box (actually, old one was a desktop, so, laptop was sent in a large box), new label, drop off at local UPS. Ease-a-pease.
We get our new office equipment sometime soon, just dealing with pandemic supply chain issues from China. Will include new laptops, 2 monitors, keyboard, mouse, docking station and headset.
My instructions were to send the old laptop back in the new laptopās box. Unfortunately, the new laptop was smaller than the old one, so while the old laptop fit in the boxā¦it didnāt fit in the packing material.
It wasnāt hard to overcome that inconvenienceā¦but I would have been happier letting someone in IT or the mailroom figure it out.
We get sent a return box to put the old laptop into
about 4 months ago I ended a prior role. Got sent a box and a shipping label for the laptop. Did not get sent boxes for the 2 monitors. Luckily I had the 2 boxes that the monitors arrived in, specifically for this purpose. Packed them up, took them to UPS, and found out it was going to cost me over 50 bucks to send someone elseās monitors to them.
Nope.
Theyāre still sitting on the floor in my bedroom, despite several contacts through my recruiter/rep who pinged them multiple times about sending me a shipping label. Pretty sure theyāre mine now.
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Monitors are dime a dozen and donāt have access to the companiesā data. Iām pretty sure they donāt care.
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how much do these monitors even cost? guessing itās more trouble and effort to get them back than to let you just keep them.
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