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LP-Shirl
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 Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: Should People Take Their Jobs More Seriously? |
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So, since I'm off all this week, there is an older lady taking my place. All last week I trained her to the best of my ability. And several times she would go off talking and doing whatever she wanted instead of listening to me. so today the first day on the job i get a text from my buddy Joe at work. it went a little something like this:
| Quote: | | "shes f***ing up everything, your desk is a mess, your voicemail is full, and shes pissing off customers, shes a f***ing whack job" |
that made me smile in a way that I havn't smiled in a long time  just to know that I've gotten so good at my job i made it look incredibly easy to her and she underestimated it. (nobody likes her cause she talks too much and shes a know-it-all)
my boss is giving her until Friday to improve before he lets her go. personally it wont be a loss for us.
So this led me to ask you all some questions:
1. are you currently employed?
2. do you take your job seriously, or do you get lazy at times?
3. where do you draw the line between having fun while working, or just getting out of line?
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ruyss
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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1. I'm currently not employed so I'm not speaking out of experience, I still have 2 years of studying (at least) ahead of me before I have to go out and look for a job. Hopefully I'll be able to complete my studies so I get a decent one  .
2. I guess everyone gets lazy sometimes but I don't think most people are able to keep that up. If you don't work seriously your employer will notice and I don't think he'll enjoy paying a lazy employee. I can't imagine that there are people that don't have a single lazy moment at their job, no matter how hard-working you are normally.
3. I'll let you know in a couple of years . But my guess is that it all depends on how formal or how loose the environment is at your job. At some places everyone will be making fun as much as they can, while at other jobs people don't know each other and just do their work and go home. My guess is that drawing the line between fun and getting out of line depends on your job and your colleagues.
As I said, I haven't worked a lot, I'm just thinking about how things were at my jobs I did during holidays.
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mcwkm
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1. Currently I am only employed during the summer when I am out of school. (my job only gives me during the summer anyway and I should put more of my energy into school rather than into a no long term potential job)
2. Yes I get lazy at times but as long as everything is safe, most of the week I can sit back and relax as long as everyone is safe.
3. As long as the work is getting done, I really don't care if my crew has fun while doing it. Most of the time we are joking around with each other but as long as the job gets done quick enough it doesn't matter.
I work at a carnival so as long as we set up the rides quickly and they are safe no one cares if we are joking around while doing it. I've led a crew most of last season so if work didn't get done or done right, it came down on me and unless people were not working no one got yelled at. As for the rest of the week you just need to make sure the customers are safe while you sit back relax and smoke a cig |
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LP-Shirl
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| mcwkm wrote: | 1. Currently I am only employed during the summer when I am out of school. (my job only gives me during the summer anyway and I should put more of my energy into school rather than into a no long term potential job)
2. Yes I get lazy at times but as long as everything is safe, most of the week I can sit back and relax as long as everyone is safe.
3. As long as the work is getting done, I really don't care if my crew has fun while doing it. Most of the time we are joking around with each other but as long as the job gets done quick enough it doesn't matter.
I work at a carnival so as long as we set up the rides quickly and they are safe no one cares if we are joking around while doing it. I've led a crew most of last season so if work didn't get done or done right, it came down on me and unless people were not working no one got yelled at. As for the rest of the week you just need to make sure the customers are safe while you sit back relax and smoke a cig |
I completely agree with you on the last one. As long as things are getting done in the way they are supposed to, I think it really lightens up the pressure to joke around and have a little bit of fun with your co-workers.
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mcwkm
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| LP-Shirl wrote: | | mcwkm wrote: | 1. Currently I am only employed during the summer when I am out of school. (my job only gives me during the summer anyway and I should put more of my energy into school rather than into a no long term potential job)
2. Yes I get lazy at times but as long as everything is safe, most of the week I can sit back and relax as long as everyone is safe.
3. As long as the work is getting done, I really don't care if my crew has fun while doing it. Most of the time we are joking around with each other but as long as the job gets done quick enough it doesn't matter.
I work at a carnival so as long as we set up the rides quickly and they are safe no one cares if we are joking around while doing it. I've led a crew most of last season so if work didn't get done or done right, it came down on me and unless people were not working no one got yelled at. As for the rest of the week you just need to make sure the customers are safe while you sit back relax and smoke a cig |
I completely agree with you on the last one. As long as things are getting done in the way they are supposed to, I think it really lightens up the pressure to joke around and have a little bit of fun with your co-workers. |
I actually believe it improves the work because employees don't end up slumming around and just stop working and just do enough to keep their job while keeping the employee happy keeps them working harder. |
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LP-Shirl
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| mcwkm wrote: | | LP-Shirl wrote: | | mcwkm wrote: | 1. Currently I am only employed during the summer when I am out of school. (my job only gives me during the summer anyway and I should put more of my energy into school rather than into a no long term potential job)
2. Yes I get lazy at times but as long as everything is safe, most of the week I can sit back and relax as long as everyone is safe.
3. As long as the work is getting done, I really don't care if my crew has fun while doing it. Most of the time we are joking around with each other but as long as the job gets done quick enough it doesn't matter.
I work at a carnival so as long as we set up the rides quickly and they are safe no one cares if we are joking around while doing it. I've led a crew most of last season so if work didn't get done or done right, it came down on me and unless people were not working no one got yelled at. As for the rest of the week you just need to make sure the customers are safe while you sit back relax and smoke a cig |
I completely agree with you on the last one. As long as things are getting done in the way they are supposed to, I think it really lightens up the pressure to joke around and have a little bit of fun with your co-workers. |
I actually believe it improves the work because employees don't end up slumming around and just stop working and just do enough to keep their job while keeping the employee happy keeps them working harder. |
Exactly. In my current college course that I am taking (Business Essentials), it explains the ways that many employers try to make work fun for their employees, like by having ice cream socials, or pizza parties. I think things like that are a great way to motivate employees and get them to work together on a more social level. My work has a company picnic in july and a christmas party every winter. It's alot of fun really to just hang out with people away from the office where you can relax and forget the pressures of work.
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I am currently employed, but it's a boring and repetitive job (sorting mail and delivering it). It's especially annoying when there is only a small amount of mail, because I still have to walk every street. I'm going to quit in June, though.
I don't always take my work seriously, but it's not difficult so I can do it really fast and be done with it.
I don't think taking your work seriously and having fun are mutually exclusive, but it's important to not get distracted too much from your job.
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Myst
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I haven't really had a job past short 5-6 week terms here and there (work experience stuff for my degree). But, to be honest, I think I goof off a bit. I've wasted an hour doing nothing before (although, really, I was waiting for my supervisor to look at stuff).
I do think that it's important to have fun doing your job - especially if it's a little bit dull and repetitive. People are more likely to work more consistently, and more efficiency if they are happy, and having fun will encourage this |
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Well I'm a professional clown, so I think that would be a bad idea for me.
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SE13
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Today is a United Kingdom Bank Holiday, yet my company expected me to work. Yes I turned in, but I gave the minimal effort possible, as I do not agree with being forced to work such a day for reduced wages, and no lieu time.
As a rule, I put as much into my job as possible, after all, I am paid upon results. Quite simply, If I do not perform, my wage reflects it, and given that I need a roof over my head, and my children all need to eat, you can be sure that I work myself stupid!
I might have to review this post at a later time, as I am still bitter about losing valuable hours of my life working when most of The Country were sat in beer gardens lapping up the Bank Holiday heat!
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| yeah i am currently employed and i take my job seriously but my job is quite fun since i don't have to work for whole day. Its just 4 hours that i have to work. So Love my job. |
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pharmer4
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I'm a pharmacist, so I've got to take my job deadly seriously.
I also make my job look easy - I just had a week off and when I got back, none of the things that I look after were done properly.
I like it when that happens, because it's good to know you are indispensible (although if you are indispensible, you usually won't be promoted, since they can't do with you in a new position).
Of course I'm buying the pharmacy, so that does not apply to me.
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mcwkm
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| pharmer4 wrote: | I'm a pharmacist, so I've got to take my job deadly seriously.
I also make my job look easy - I just had a week off and when I got back, none of the things that I look after were done properly.
I like it when that happens, because it's good to know you are indispensible (although if you are indispensible, you usually won't be promoted, since they can't do with you in a new position).
Of course I'm buying the pharmacy, so that does not apply to me. |
I use to work in a pharmacy and are pharmacists really had it pretty easy when it came to actual work, all they had to do was check the pill to the prescription and answer questions about medications. The majority of the work was pawned off onto the other workers (counting pills, typing in prescriptions, most of the costumer interaction). Oh and they had to do anything that was dealing with narcotics. The pharmacists job didn't seem that hard although every prescription checked so the medication matched needed to be correct all the time so it was demanding in that aspect for 0 mistakes. Of course none of this may apply to you |
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1. Yeah, I need one job to earn my bread. 
2. I complain a lot, but I am trying to do my best, because I know that it is not easy to get a good job that fit me in China, you know, there are so many people here, and there are still many who can not get paid.
3. Enjoy the free time, but I find that I am irritability when there are too much work to do, that would make me nervous. |
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pharmer4
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| mcwkm wrote: | | pharmer4 wrote: | I'm a pharmacist, so I've got to take my job deadly seriously.
I also make my job look easy - I just had a week off and when I got back, none of the things that I look after were done properly.
I like it when that happens, because it's good to know you are indispensible (although if you are indispensible, you usually won't be promoted, since they can't do with you in a new position).
Of course I'm buying the pharmacy, so that does not apply to me. |
I use to work in a pharmacy and are pharmacists really had it pretty easy when it came to actual work, all they had to do was check the pill to the prescription and answer questions about medications. The majority of the work was pawned off onto the other workers (counting pills, typing in prescriptions, most of the costumer interaction). Oh and they had to do anything that was dealing with narcotics. The pharmacists job didn't seem that hard although every prescription checked so the medication matched needed to be correct all the time so it was demanding in that aspect for 0 mistakes. Of course none of this may apply to you |
Well, in the USA, everything is completely different than the rest of the world.
This is mainly due to the fact that the US health system is driven by money, while in the rest of the world, the health systems are based on people's well being.
I must say your experience in pharmacy is pretty poor. In my pharmacy, it is true that unqualified staff do deal with customers first (think of it like nurses doing triage in a hospital before seeing a doctor - it makes the system more efficient), and manual entry of information etc will often be handled by another staff member, but not exclusively.
The reason for this is that a pharmacists knowledge is worth a lot of money, so their time needs to be best spent in the most cost-effective way, ie dealing with situations that no one else is qualified to do (so as you mentioned, handling narcotics, discussing cases with doctors, counselling patients on their medication, implementing care plans etc etc).
Now, just so you know, no pharmacist's job is easy, not matter what you think you observed. The knowledge a pharmacist has (at least in Australia) is the same as that of a doctor, the difference being, they specialise in physiology (operation of the body), and know a lot about pharmacology (action of medication), we specialise in pharmacology, and know a lot about physiology. the majority of a pharmacists work occurs in their brain (ie their knowledge of drugs etc), so you don't SEE them working as hard as they do.
The most important thing to remember is that a pharmacist's job is to support a doctor by ensuring that the medication they have prescribed is the most appropriate, so if they do their job correctly, it makes out job easier. Our job gets harder when they either are unaware of a patients complete medical history (ie they see more than one doctor), or they get something wrong (which everyone does).
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