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- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -2/+286I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
- Asno667, on 10/10/2007, -2/+206So I go above and beyond by wasting all of my workday?
- DanGleesacks, on 10/10/2007, -3/+186Start work : 9(ish)
Sky News : 30 Minutes
Digg : 1 Hour
Dilbert : 2 minutes
eBay : 20 Minutes
Work : 30 Minutes
Lunch : 1 Hour
Sky News : 10 Minutes (Catch Up)
Digg : 1 Hour
Engadget : 20 Minutes
Work 2 Hours
Afternoon Break : 20 Minutes
Work : 1 Hour
Home.
Masturbate : 20 Minutes.
Sleep.
Repeat! - alittleroy101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+140I crush that average.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+116I am not gonna lie.
i work from 930- 530
I do a total of 2 hours MAX of actual work.
2 hours on digg
1 hour on Consumerist
1 Hour on Gmail
1 Hour Kitchen
1 Hour youtube - nottanner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+72They say twentysomethings waste more time.
What they don't say is whether or not they are more productive. I would wager that we have the ability to get work done faster and better in less time in a day if we take more breaks. I'm just guessing though. - MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -2/+69I think Digg is to blame.
- xatrak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+66I work for the government. I think I did 2 hours work last month...or maybe it was the month before.
- Jorlwind, on 10/10/2007, -3/+65This reminds me of when my dad was a manager at this one place. He worked about 13 hours a day, six days a week, but spent a lot of it just chatting with customers and watching TV. He was so damn good at doing his job though that EVERYTHING in the place revolved around him and beat to his tune like a finely oiled machine. When he left, the place went to ***** for about 3 weeks while two new managers had to come in to replace him.
The moral of the story here is this: Work smarter, not harder. Do that and you'll HAVE the time to screw around. - nju0843, on 10/10/2007, -3/+62I don't know what you guys are talking abou......oh crap here comes my boss!
- wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+58Finding quality unseen spider monkey porn: 30 mins.
- Davisourus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+53Not "Average" employees: "amongst Employees who take online surveys".
That's like saying the average person doesn't get laid, as polled on digg. - holzp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+50Try being his cubemate. ugh.
- tnatharik, on 10/10/2007, -5/+52OMGmail for 1hr. Are you a spammer or getting spammed.
- shuuy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+48I guess this is targetted to workers like me who spend all day on digg trying to get their comment ratings up, instead of solving the world's toughest problems...
Aw crap - someone's on to me! - wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+40What's work?
- PhantomRogue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37Ive wasted 2 hours allready today, and I've only been in the office for 2 and a half hours.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34that's disturbingly precise...
- r0ck3tm4nn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Agreed. I tend to get more work done in a shorter period of time than older colleagues of equal rank. Especially when it comes to anything technology related. Not trying to say I'm the ***** or anything but just something I've noticed.
- thomasthecat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30Where do you get yours? It takes me a lot longer than 30 minutes to find quality unseen spider monkey porn.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29"Twentysomethings slack off more than older workers, according to a new survey. "
Probably because I know how to get projects done faster than all these ***** baby boomers I work with, usually with better results and less recognition. - timusca, on 10/10/2007, -8/+37I like how you stop typing "about" as though you've run out of time, and then proceed to type "oh crap here comes my boss!"
Awesome. - Miso117, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Yeah, I was gonna say... *****, I waste WAY more than 2 hours!
- glowb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30kitchen.com is not worth 1 hour a day :)
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26I will help you on your mission. +1
- ahhell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Sure we screw around but what do you think those high paid execs do. If you think they send all day "working", you are on crack.
Same with middle managers, all they do is sit in meetings and accomplish nothing.
Hmm....I guess the only people that do any work are the ones making less than $15/hour. (You know it's true. We've all been there.) - zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Careful not to automate yourself out of a job.
- bryan4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23I work 100% every week. 20% each day....
- shaun1018, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23I'm doing it RIGHT NOW!
- winmywii, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22You should try 5 hours of digg. It does wonders.
- Davisourus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21You posted this at 8am central time. If you live in the states, you're lying.
That or digging in your sleep.
Either way, no soup for you. - indorock, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24It takes me 15 minutes alone to fill out the cover sheet to my TPS report.
- bluechips23, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Suck it up, Salary.com. Why don't you mention how much time you guys waste per day in making useless surveys like this? My philosophy is to work smart, NOT work hard.
- Radica1Faith, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22I think its safe to say that the average digg user wastes much more than that.
- UncleHenry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I'm at work right now, can I have a cookie for proving this article as true?
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19The real conflict lies not in the behavior of employees, but in the way management operates.
These days, non-management (and non-union) employees are expected to find their own work to do. They're also expected to draft project plans, create documentation, manage budgets, audit other employees operations, come up with new and innovative ideas for the company, sell themselves and the product to internal and external customers and coworkers, and often participate in extra-curricular (read: unpaid) company events.
So, remind me what management does again?
Management is too often weak and coasting, unwilling to put forth the effort to truly create, direct and organize the operations of the rank and file - like they should be doing. When my company management not only fails to give the company a direction, but also expects me to step up and provide that direction myself, I think, "Hey, if you want me to be management, you'll pay me to be management, and not also saddle me with the daily work that rank and file need to do."
Management sets the example, the employees follow it. If employees are coasting through the day, it's only because they see their company coasting as well.
In the minority of companies where management is strong - and by strong I mean goal-oriented instead of nagging about busy work - as long as employees reach their targets as provided by management, they're fine. Focus on getting what needs to be done, and done well, and ignore the "being at work at during a particular time period" and "doing little busy work things so you look busy." - andshewas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I feel like it is the same way at my job. If my older colleagues would just tell me as soon as they experience the stupidest of computer problems, instead of spending the entire day trying to figure out what they did. I can generally get them up and running in about 5 minutes, as opposed to them sitting, staring at it all day. The point being, older colleagues refuse to admit that us younger gals (and guys) are more productive, even though they see us on digg.com all day, because it doesn't take us as long to complete a mundane task. And we don't sing along to every frickin' song on the radio.
- loup, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18I've done the work smarter thing, and I've had some employers that then give stupid, time-wasting tasks to fill the extra time that I have (these aren't even things that need to be done, just tasks that take up time so they feel like they're getting their money's worth out of me,) so now I no longer multi-task by taking care of several work related things at once, I multi-task by doing things like check digg when I'm doing something else that doesn't actually require a whole lot of attention
- davewashere, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19If you people would just stop posting all this interesting crap maybe I'd have time to do a little work.
- Hoinah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17I do, and I quite possibly waste 10 hours a day, and my supposed shift is only 9 hours long.
Above and beyond, 100+% Inefficiency, damn I should get an award. - Inverno, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I replaced myself with an Excel Spreadsheet once. :( I think that was the best encouragement to get back into school.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15One time I went a whole week at a corporate job doing nothing. I didn't answer the phone or return a single email or attend any meetings, or turn in a status report. Everyone thought I was real busy.
Nowadays though employers expect more, so I try to work smart and stay focused, in between Digging of course :) - lokai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Hmm... At the old phone tech support office, I think that I spend about 80% of my time being unproductive in-as-so-far as office duties are concerned. We work when the phone rings. Between calls we goof off. It all depends on what you consider to be... productivity. I mean, today I managed to bang out this amazing abstract piece. I'd have put the finishing touches on it, if not for that phone call five minutes before clock-out...
The bosses don't give a damn. So... I don't care as long as I get my deerect deeeposit ;) - alittleroy101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Typing also makes it seem like your doing real work.
- jonathono2000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15
As the youngest person in my office and being a male I not only get all of my work done more efficiently and effectively because I basically grew up using the software we use but I am also expected to be the office tech, network admin, and everyday computer problem troubleshooter and even trainer in some cases. And this is not uncommon amongst friends. What old people don't understand is that you are not getting paid an hourly break-down per you salary but are being paid "to retain your services" if it takes me 20 minutes to complete what takes somebody else 3 hours that gives me the right to A) either work harder to improve my standing at my place of work, or B) slack off. Most 20 somethings choose the latter because they know working extra hard won't advance them. Slacking does not equal slacker. Its the systems fault. And as far as retaining services go if I am wearing 2 hats at work then i should be being paid for the retention of 2 services, suck on that poopsicle, management. - Gudlyf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16I wonder how high that percentage would be if they included the frackin' commute many people take every day.
I'm a fool who has to commute every day to work, averaging about a 40-minute ride, twice a day. Here's a depressing calculation:
80 minutes/day * 5 days/week * approx. 49 weeks/year = 19,600 minutes/year, or about 40 8-HOUR WORK DAYS WASTED ON THE ROAD. Put into normal days that's about 13 24-hour days sitting in a car. - unicronband, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Reading about employees wasting time on the internet at work while I'm wasting time on the internet at work. I think I just got hit in the face with the irony ball.
- FyreGoddess, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16I work for a multi-national conglomerate and I have time to waste because they refuse to give me enough work to keep me occupied. Project management doesn't take a whole lot of time or effort, but until they give me enough projects to fill out my day, I have to find something to do...
- lng80, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Work is that thing you do when you are not spending:
2 hours on digg
1 hour on Consumerist
1 Hour on Gmail
1 Hour Kitchen
1 Hour youtube
:D - WoollyMittens, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13No that's reserved for whingy snitches that hide in their cubicle all day. It's all about how popular you are with management, not about the quality or quantity of your work.
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