Originally posted by Nick M
I want to play Rugby. Rugby seems fun.
Originally posted by damnyank
And the subject of this thread is "What time does your day begin?"
Did I miss somthing???
Originally posted by damnyank
Wake up at 2215 hrs (please note times are base on 24 hour clock so Dave Holbon does not get confused )
Start work processing mail on bar code sorting machine at Post Office at 2300 hrs. 2 breaks of 10 minutes each, 1/2 hour for lunch and on average 200,000 pieces of letter mail later - I get off at 0730 hrs.
One might say that I am glad to see the light of day - that means my work day is over.
Just one more weird twist - I work Saturday thru Wednesday - so Thursday and Friday are my Saturday and Sunday. When we start work 2300 hrs on Friday - we actually consider it Saturday since we go by the day we get off - of course no one working the other shifts ever know which day we are talking about!:huh: :huh:
Originally posted by Dave Holbon
I’ve been observing this thread for some time now and notice that people seem to be on their own “local” time schedules. For some “the weekend” occurs midweek, for others (like myself) not at all, as flexible periods of work are expected of them including adjustments to their life style and who miss-out on any sort of social life.
Traditionally people who work at times when their peers are sleeping or on a day of rest (“Christians”, Saturday and Sunday) are paid a premium like time and a half or double time to work these days. Support (computer) staff are likewise enumerated (hopefully) and it’s occurred to me that in a modern society where large Corporations have “outsourced” most of their IT, that it’s becoming the norm not to pay these staff the going rate for working unsocial hours or to pay reduced rates. This is because all the staff employed by the “outsourced” company work unsocial hours and hence are a large cost factor to the “bottom line” wage costs.
If this work was brought in-house (and thence increasing the companies involved stability and security) I wonder what the cost would be when compared to “outsourcing”.
So why do we still employ idiots at the top?
Originally posted by Lighter
HooYa! Working for a University has its benefits... For me, it's not so much about idiots (that population is limited to my clients )--it's the fact that the students are smarter and more creative than the sys admins these days....which is why everyone is so damn busy fixing stuff.