April 27, 2006

An almost possible life

Personally, I believe that certain weather are just not fit for working. In other countries, when there's a snow storm or freaking cold temperature, school can be suspended and sometimes, work can be too.

In Singapore, I advocate that on days with weather like today's, work should be suspended. It's counter-productive to work on such days when every inch of your flesh, every ounce of your bones scream "let's get back to bed!!!"

And today's weather made my mood happy. I practically could feel the skip in my steps, even though the chill makes me cough a bit more and makes my bare calves feel icy. And, to think that I was heading for work with such a life-loving mood. It's a great shame, don't you think?

xxx

30, 40

On the same note, I think local employers should really think about revising weekly work hours. Well, probably employers all over the world should think about it but I'm only in this little red dot, so, I really plead ignorance to the erm, world outside.

See, typically, a worker works for 8 hours (and that's ideally, as usually stated in the letter of appointment). But, I know it's almost like a working class culture to work more than that. In fact, most fellow wage-earners like me whom I know spend up to 10 hours per day at work.

I always wonder, is this about a low rate of productivity or about the unreasonable workload? Because, look, if you are the boss and you think you are going to give me workload that will probably take me a 50 hours (assuming we keep to the 5-days work week) week to accomplish, then, why the hell did you state that my working time is supposed to be a 40 hours work week?

And, if it's about productivity, well, let me at least be honest with my readers here. My typical productive hours for a day is 6 hours, 7 hours at max. Meaning, no matter how long you expect me to stay at work or how early you want me to come in for work and how late you allow me to go home, I can promise you, only 6 hours of my time spent at work are productive. That is, I produce a day's work in 6 hours. It may not be a consecutive 6 hours. But, if need be, I'm capable of sitting at my desk and work productively for a consecutive 6 hours. Ahh, the magic number of 6. hehe

Honest. All the other time you want me to sit at work will be just time spent on daydreaming, snacking, taking breaks, acting busy and, if you are away and not around to supervise me, I blog. haha

But! I can assure you that I will give almost perfect (becos to any boss, an employee can't be perfect, else why employ them?) work, up to standard in that 6 hours of time I spent working. My work style is, do it once, do it well. I can't stand repeating the same work 'cos it was not well done the first time. Bores the hell out of me!

Some of the people I know tell me that they work OT because the work never seem to be able to finish. My instant thought bubble would be: Then, why bother working OT? I mean, it's silly, isn't it? We all know that work can never be finished. So, why do extra time to try to finish it? Leave it to tomorrow lah! And if you always have difficulty meeting your deadlines, then I think the problem is either with your productivity rate or your boss expectations. Definitely not the time lor.

The mantra is... an hour more at work, an hour less to live.

Unless you are that few who happens to be bloody lucky enough to love your work like your life. Hell... I hate you.

xxx

To all my superstars at my last job,

I miss you... ladies and girls and little boys.

You all must be some kind of Super Star.

xxx

Twice.

I sneezed since this morning. Not a good sign at all. Jeez.

Posted by 杏 cy （Jancy） at 09:06