Announcing you are going to do EXTRA work at night
Posted on 09/20/2006 by twiz
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I find it so entertaining that some people at my work make it a point to announce when they are planning to do overtime (unpaid) during the evening from home. They find creative ways to slip it into the conversation. "Yeah, I'm going to work on that later tonight from home, I'm just too busy today". Or another good one, from a meeting where we were being trained on a new project: "Can this be done from home in the evenings?". Uhhh, can you say... brown-noser!
I'm waiting for the day they announce they are giving themselves a paycut to help cover management's travel expenses. Might as well, since working overtime for free is basically the same thing.
POST A COMMENTFreedomringer(09/21/2006)
I have had the pleasure of working with these people. It is usually someone who is very insecure with their position or knowledge. I worked with an animal tech. who would continuously talk about how she worked weekends and so on. I would come into the lab on a sat. and she was never there. Later, we found that she made aggregious errors with our colony and we lost several lines because of her. She was totally in over her head, but her pride would not let her ask questions that could have prevented those errors. Beware of those types that brag about their work ethic, they are usually covering up some serious short comings.
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SouthernProgrammer (09/20/2006)
There are two ways to take this: #1: They are not working from home, just simply acting as if they are. #2: They are finishing work that SHOULD have been done during the day from home in exchange for a fairly relaxed day at work. Sometimes I leave work early, but will check emails from home and answer questions to employees in another country who are in a different time zone. I feel that is a fair exchange and no-one has complained yet.
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