Why do we work 5 days a week?

ATR84 · Post by **ATR84** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:50 am

Wish I was paul bristol uk

I probably have at least 35 years till retirement bit I am seriously looking forward to it

Post by **Donald** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:56 am

Shiny wrote:As for "work smarter not harder", that's corporate bullshit for "sorry, you have too much work for the hours we pay you, we have no solution and are worried about upsetting the lazier staff by addressing the imbalance of work. So deal with it, while we walk around doing very little other than assigning acronyms to tasks as we have nothing better to do and need to justify our salary"

Not really, it's applying efficient methodology to the way you work in order to make it easy for yourself to complete the same amount of work, not necessarily to achieve more in total.

A crude example:

You're given a large pile of small stones and a selection of buckets, and can only carry X kg at once. You may be tempted to find the largest bucket you can carry, fill it to the max kg and move the stones in that way - that's working hard but you can probably appear move more stones at a time and appear to work faster. Alternatively, you could find two equally sized buckets and distribute the max kg between them (even if the buckets don't become full) and move the stones in that way - that's working smart because per trip you're moving the same amount of stones but in a much more sensible way.

This is what I suspect LLL is getting at when he says "work smarter, not harder".

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:42 pm

Exactly, and being self employed thats how I work. Smart, not hard. Efficient methodology- Thats the ticket.

I think shiny has manager bitterness

for fair reason I'm sure!

Work smart not hard should be a personal mantra, not a spoken instruction.

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:15 pm

I've had to deal with idiot management that fooked up a company following a buy out, caused stupid amounts of extra work, unpaid overtime etc and, when they called down to see how it was going, the response their mess was "work smarter, not harder".

6 months later all our systems and processes were changed back to how they used to be when they realised that they didn;t have a clue what they were doing, creating yet more work.

It is corporate bullshit and has no place in the working world.

I am now self employed and have an employee. If she is stressed out with work, i help out and solve the problem. If i said "work smarter...", she'd thump me, and i'd support that!

We have an ancronym free office, we help each other out and have no bullshitting managers breathing down our necks with fancy corporate sayings that come out of christmas cracker or fortune cookie.

If anything, my motto "is work to be comfortable"

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:09 pm

ok shiny.

hondaman · Post by **hondaman** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:18 pm

Personally I'm not doing a 5 day week at the moment or any day week as I'm off sick......

Sick of work, working for knobheads and idiots who don't give a stuff about you as long as your there and working your a**s off for them, but when you have a need to be off the first thing they do is sack you or give you s**t for being off.

Enough is enough, I wanted to retire by the time I was 50 well that never happened, due to life getting complicated, soon I'll be 54 and I'm doing it, just doing what I want when I want to.

When I'm better after this op on my hand in the next couple of months I'm selling up, downsizing to a cheaper area and living the dream and if I have to work for pennies to kept me in beer and car parts then I'm doing a 3 day week or stacking shelves in some super store..... stuff working like a slave for some ungrateful a**s....

Sorry rant over

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:38 pm

hondaman wrote:Sick of work, working for knobheads and idiots who don't give a stuff about you as long as your there and working your a**s off for them...

Well you know what they say.... "Work smarter, not harder"

hondaman · Post by **hondaman** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:41 pm

Shiny wrote:
hondaman wrote:Sick of work, working for knobheads and idiots who don't give a stuff about you as long as your there and working your a**s off for them...
Well you know what they say.... "Work smarter, not harder"

Well I tried that, I've also used reverse psychology on managers to get what I want in the past, but its the same old B/S at the end of the day, so I'm going to be "not working" smarter...

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:46 pm

or smarter not working

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:55 pm

Shiny wrote:
hondaman wrote:Sick of work, working for knobheads and idiots who don't give a stuff about you as long as your there and working your a**s off for them...
Well you know what they say.... "Work smarter, not harder"

I know the irony will be missed on all but Donald that is a very ironic post.

Hondaman, retire anytime you like. life should be spent with little to no stress nowadays and can be.