Always Leave Office on Time!

[MickeyD]

Love your job
but don't love your company,
because you may never know
when your company stops loving you.
- - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Always Leave Office on Time

1. Work is never-ending process. It can never be completed.

2. Interest of a client is important, so is your family.

3. If you fall in your life, neither your boss or client will offer you a helping hand; your family and friends will.

4. Life is not only about work, office and client. There is more to life. You need time to socialize, entertain, relax and excercise. Don't let life be meaningless.

5. A person who stays late at the office is not a hardworking person, instead he/she is a fool who does not know how to manage work within the stipulated time. He/She is inefficient and incompetent in his work.

6. You did not study hard and struggle in life to become a machine.

7. If your boss forces you to work late, he/she may be ineffective and have a meaningless life too; so forward this to him/her.


Leaving Office on Time =

• Efficient
• Good Social Life
• Quality Family Life

Leaving Office Late =

• Inefficient and Incompetent
• No Social Life
• Less Family Life

Source: http://www.chiraag.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/always-leave-office-on-time.jpg

 

[Hamster]

Applicable 99% of the time.

 

[Thor]

98%

 

[biometrics]

Until you move the office home and it happens to double as your entertainment room too.

 

[MickeyD]

Until you move the office home and it happens to double as your entertainment room too.

Happened to me as well... 18 hour working days included!! It is not good, especially for one's health.

This is why I thought this OP offers some pretty good advice.

 

[Creag]

I end up working late at least 1 to 2 days a week. I know I will never get on top of it. Just a never ending list of high priority items fed through to me.

Also I work late, as I am most productive in the late afternoon and evening. The office is quiet. No one to distract me. No one to come sit at my desk without invitation and plague me. It sucks, but this is the way it is.

I hit my straps late in the afternoon and I am super-productive till about late.

Yesterday evening I walked the floor to see where I could find an alternate desk to leave the people I work with and work alone.

/sigh

I fit the bill for this, suppose

 

[MrGray]

1. Work is never-ending process. It can never be completed.

2. Interest of a client is important, so is your family.

3. If you fall in your life, neither your boss or client will offer you a helping hand; your family and friends will.

4. Life is not only about work, office and client. There is more to life. You need time to socialize, entertain, relax and excercise. Don't let life be meaningless.

5. A person who stays late at the office is not a hardworking person, instead he/she is a fool who does not know how to manage work within the stipulated time. He/She is inefficient and incompetent in his work.

6. You did not study hard and struggle in life to become a machine.

7. If your boss forces you to work late, he/she may be ineffective and have a meaningless life too; so forward this to him/her.

1. Deadlines are not a never ending process.
2. If your client mortgaged their house to pay for your services, you have an equal obligation to them and their family.
3. It is a mere assumption that your business/client won't be there for you. Not all companies and clients are heartless and uncaring.
4. If work makes your life meaningless, you are in the wrong career.
5. Working hard is not foolish. In fact, it is the one commonality among highly successful people.
6. If you love your work, working hard will not turn you into a machine but it might just make you perform as flawlessly as one.
7. Rather be your own boss.

 

[etienne_marais]

and this appears just as I popped in at work on a Saturday, now I want to go home

 

[MickeyD]

1. Deadlines are not a never ending process.
2. If your client mortgaged their house to pay for your services, you have an equal obligation to them and their family.
3. It is a mere assumption that your business/client won't be there for you. Not all companies and clients are heartless and uncaring.
4. If work makes your life meaningless, you are in the wrong career.
5. Working hard is not foolish. In fact, it is the one commonality among highly successful people.
6. If you love your work, working hard will not turn you into a machine but it might just make you perform as flawlessly as one.
7. Rather be your own boss.

And why would most of that happen?

You set too tight a deadline to impress your client or beat your competitor to the deal. What if you all stepped back and set realistic deadlines where you don't kill or abuse your staff or yourself?

If you are working 18+ hours per day, how long before you resort to some form of stimulant? Or burn out? Or dead?

Define working hard... as an employee it is giving your employer your all during your contracted working hours. Working 20 hours a day does not mean you are working hard. It means you suck at resource management and cannot delegate.

Not everybody can be their own boss, but they can control their own time and achieve balance in their life.

 

[delightful]

My late nights and Saturdays still continues - good read. * Takes note - thanks

Don't agree with "5. A person who stays late at the office is not a hardworking person, instead he/she is a fool who does not know how to manage work within the stipulated time. He/She is inefficient and incompetent in his work."

 

[MickeyD]

My late nights and Saturdays still continues - good read. * Takes note - thanks

Don't agree with "5. A person who stays late at the office is not a hardworking person, instead he/she is a fool who does not know how to manage work within the stipulated time. He/She is inefficient and incompetent in his work."

Yeah, that one is a bit harsh! Should be modified to include the term "who regularly or always stays late...".

 

[deweyzeph]

All the places I worked as a developer that had a culture of working overtime were the most inefficient soul-destroying organisations you could imagine to work for. The reason everyone had to work overtime was because the management of the companies were completely inept, over-promising, under-delivering with chaotic project management. If your staff are regularly working overtime then there is something seriously wrong with your organisation.

 

[infodrop]

A favourite saying, source unkown: Nobody ever said on their death bed, “I wish I had worked more” or “I wish had had fewer friends”. Nourish your soul as well as you ambition.

 

[JerryMungo]

Important point missing from OP... Learn to set realistic expectations with management and team members. Learn to accurately estimate effort required for work and tell people you need more info if you don't have enough to estimate accurately.

 

[Beachless]

I dont agree with this, it certainly does not apply to my profession. For me there are clear deadlines and sometimes in order to meet them there has to be some hard work involved. But in my opinion there has to be balance so when things are quiet I leave early and dont feel guilty about it.

 

[biometrics]

I dont agree with this, it certainly does not apply to my profession. For me there are clear deadlines and sometimes in order to meet them there has to be some hard work involved. But in my opinion there has to be balance so when things are quiet I leave early and dont feel guilty about it.

What exactly is "hard work". It's not working overtime obviously.

 

[Bulldog_imported]

It's called sucking it up buttercup. If you're working for a big multinational then it's the norm because deep down inside you're hoping clock card 311018 got noticed, if it's for a small business then your lazy boss is probably sitting in the pub having a Heinekin with his mates bragging how he has some ******* at the office doing his work.

 

[JerryMungo]

What exactly is "hard work". It's not working overtime obviously.

Why on earth not?

 

[JerryMungo]

if it's for a small business then your lazy boss is probably sitting in the pub having a Heinekin with his mates bragging how he has some ******* at the office doing his work.

Huge assumption. Being paranoid and assuming your boss is a lazy twit won't get you anywhere... anywhere.
For those who have that issue (the people above you are out to get you), the cure is start your own business.

 

[Vinia]

That little list is so cute and simplistic. I can see how it may apply to people with crap jobs, who are also doormats.

There are times when true professionals don't think twice about putting in overtime, like financial year end, right before massive launches, tabling reports before the board or Parliament etc. You just do it, because you don't want to let your clients or the company down. When you're your own boss in a small business or start up it's even more important. Obviously don't get abused by the system, but you're not going to get anywhere if you always refuse overtime or going the extra mile with anything.

The thing about work or the boss not caring is such a huge generalisation, that's again just down to people having crap jobs (update your CVs and get out) and no backbone. I went through some hectic ****e in the space of about a year, with a cancer scare that needed an op to remove cysts & losing a pregnancy. My mom was way too emotional and distraught to be there for me. I got amazing support from my work colleagues and even the COO of the department shared some things with me that helped me get through it all.

I think if you find yourself in such a horror show of a job, that all those things on the list apply to you, you should seriously think about getting into a healthier work environment. Some people stay in crap jobs like some kind of abusive relationship. I actually know someone with a pattern of remaining in both those rubbish situations, and it is due to the same underlying reasons.