After practically a lifetime, our firm is transitioning into a standard 40 hour work week. Up until the first of this coming April, we worked on average 37.5 hours per week ... up to 40, if need be, but if there was no need, the requirement was at least 37.5 hours. This transition to a required 40 hour week comes in a time when our work load is less than it has ever been in the last 60 years. Why work more hours if you have less work to do? Apparently, the new office manager felt the need to make her mark. Well, good for her for making her mark. I hope she doesn't linger on that mark, because it would be an understatement to say that she has stirred a pot of ill will. All I know, is that the 40 hour mark is the great equalizer. Who stands out, if everyone works the exact same hours? I don't care about standing out. What drives me is to go one step further than what is required of me. So, I will always work 40 hours and the 5 minutes over ... that 5 minutes being the amount I can work without being paid for overtime work. Demand something of me, and I will spite you by giving you more than you asked. Lucky you. Prideful me.
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remember the annoyance about playing solitare at the office? Well that might be you now, if there is even less work but more hours to put in. Or didnt murphy say something that people will adjust their workload to fit into the alloted time they have?
ReplyDeleteYikes! I shudder at the idea of having to resort of solitaire for 2.5 hours or even 30 minutes. I never heard that murphy law, but it's probably true!
ReplyDeleteHaha, it might be pavlovs, or some other obscure scientist. You'll learn to like solitare, or you'll end up adding office cleaner to your duty roster because your bored out of your tree.
ReplyDeleteThat is so NOT a good move for a new office manager to make! My old job required 37.5 hours too, and my new job requires 40, its not that much of a difference but you CAN feel it when there's less work to do.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it is a tax thing.
I just had my annual review yesterday. Wanna hear about MY raise? A big huge whopping 24 cents an hour raise. I would much prefer to tell people I didn't get a raise at all because gosh, that was offending, kind of. Until I heard that was normal-- everybody gets approx 2% and thats it.
I think it was Parkinson's Law... "work expands to fill the time" or something like that...
ReplyDeleteI guess you could savor the coffee a few minutes longer and visit the restroom an extra time...