26
Sep
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
[I am just getting back from a two-week vacation. I go back to work this coming Monday, and I can't help but think what kind of feedback I'm going to get from my boss. The last time I took an extended vacation, I had an interesting experience with him. The post below recounts what happened. [...]
05
Aug
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life, Ramblings/Miscellaneous
The eight hour day is . . . just . . . awful.
Every day when I’m at work, I try to be as productive as possible. When I get in early in the morning, I’m at my peak production level. I zoom through my assignments and tasks, and I feel unstoppable.
But then . . . [...]
01
Aug
2008
Posted by Robert as Books, Employee Life, Ramblings/Miscellaneous
I stumbled across a short video of a guest lecture by Tim Ferriss at Princeton back in 2005.
Ferriss, as you know, is the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, one of my favorite books. (Indeed, I’ve read it twice now).
In this lecture, Tim is answering a question about output and e-mail distractions. His answer is quite [...]
24
Jul
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a mini-battle I had with Beaker (my boss) about a three-day weekend I had taken for a short vacation getaway. I did not relent, and I took that Friday off despite Beaker’s resistance.
Flimjo 1, Beaker 0.
Another Battle
Recently, however, Beaker tried teasing me about my attempt to take [...]
10
Jul
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
When you’re an office-dwelling employee at a big firm, things can get a bit tricky when you want to take a day off and enjoy an extended weekend getaway with your family. That is what I am trying to do this weekend (i.e., take tomorrow off and head over to the west coast of Florida [...]
07
Jul
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
I could not post on Saturday or Sunday because the Man struck again. I got called into the office yesterday and worked almost 10 hours. It was, indeed, an un-glorious day marked with mismanagement, duplicative work, and dueling supervisors (but Beaker eventually won out). Just another day at the office, I guess.
I will post a belated [...]
24
Jun
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
I felt like Donnie Brasco yesterday. The trial I had worked on for the past month settled on the eve of closing arguments. I worked like a dog for the past week and a half preparing for trial and performing various tasks throughout the trial.
(For the record, I’m the one at the bottom of the [...]
17
Jun
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
I posted a list of 10 reasons to quit your job not too long ago. After this past weekend, I decided to come up with list of 10 more reasons to quit your job.
This list is based on the concept that every job has absurd and ridiculous demands. Those demands often become ”normal” for us. They become part of [...]
15
Jun
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
Should I call myself a hard working man? Is that something of which I should be proud?
Well, no. I refuse to be that, and I’m working feverishly on the side to escape that label.
I had some great ideas for posts for yesterday, but I worked until late on Friday night and practically all day yesterday [...]
09
Jun
2008
Posted by Robert as Employee Life
No, no. It wasn’t me who ended up staying awake all night long. I am proud of the fact that I have yet to work all through the night in my job. In fact, I refuse to be up all night working on something. Even if the assignment requires an insane amount of work. You [...]
