Productive work?

**p38arover** · 24th September 2007, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

..... I suggest that a major reason for this is that a large and increasing number of us are engaged in tasks that actually do nothing useful (by virtually any definition), no matter how diligently we work at it.

One of the reason I took a redundancy from Telstra was that I was a bit tired of going home feeling I hadn't accomplished anything.

Some parts of my job were really enjoyable but I didn't like the amount of time I was spending on preparing for litigation (on a case where there would be no real winner).

After I left, the case was dropped and Telstra settled out of court. It would have won the case but it would have dragged on and cost more than it was worth to settle. The lawyers would have got most of the money that was spent on the whole thing!

Ron

**Blknight.aus** · 24th September 2007, 04:15 PM

I solved that problem at work... I sign off and write down the work I do on the work order for the vehicle, when the admin clerks come and chase me I put on the cave man voice and give it "me spanner turner You pen pusher, that paper, your problem"

When they tell me that they'll stop filling out paperwork getting me jobs we just let the work backlog (the other turners are doing it now as well) and then when the heighrachy want to know why we aint doing any work "no paper, no vehicles no work"

pen pushers get ass kicking and we get some work done.

**barryj** · 24th September 2007, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

When I decided to take redundancy from Telstra, no one noticed...

Ron

Don't feel too bad Ron, there's always things to do\hide in your shed

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We had a guy at work who did not show up for work.

We claimed and were paid overtime to cover his position and after 6 weeks I asked my supervisor if she knew when the guy would return.

She said that she had no idea that he was even away!

I wonder what the role of a supervisor actually is

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**Utemad** · 24th September 2007, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

When I decided to take redundancy from Telstra, no one noticed...

Ron

I used to work for NDC and we were in an exchange in Brisbane somewhere that had a big garage underneath it for vehicle storage.

I was told a story by one of the older ex-Telstra guys that there used to be a guy at this exchange that worked on his rally car in the garage during work time

It sounds bad but I imagine the other guys would have been reading the paper or on the phone anyway. At least he was doing something productive

**p38arover** · 24th September 2007, 05:48 PM

Oh, foreign orders? Done many in my time as a tech with OTC. What else is there to do on 11pm-7am shifts when all is going well. As a tech on a satellite or cable station, one only really worked hard when things were going wrong or when there was testing to do with overseas admins.

I used to take model planes or electronics projects in to work on to keep me awake.

Ron

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