Do you find it hard to get in 40 hours of actual work in a week? (application, employer)

[KonaldDuth]

I do. Recently I've been spending 3-4 hrs per day in meetings, putting out urgent fires, deciphering emails from PMs about the latest unnecessary feature they want added to an application, firing off an email about why we're going to have to compromise on that feature, etc. Meanwhile I have all these projects that are 80% done and I can never get the final 20% done because I'm too busy or more gets added to the final 20%.


Anyone else have this problem?

[davenj08]

Define "actual work".

[unixfed]

If I'm sitting around at my desk with nothing to do and two hours left in the workday, I just go home... If that means I work a 30 hour week, that's how long it took me to get my work done.

If I'm hammered with projects and need to stay late every day to stay afloat and end up working 50 hours, that's cool too.

Typically it's somewhere around the 35 hour mark. What I'm saying, though, is that I don't find it hard to put in 40 hours... Because if the work doesn't dictate 40, I'm not here 40.

[Hemlock140]

Originally Posted by KonaldDuth

I do. Recently I've been spending 3-4 hrs per day in meetings, putting out urgent fires, deciphering emails from PMs about the latest unnecessary feature they want added to an application, firing off an email about why we're going to have to compromise on that feature, etc. Meanwhile I have all these projects that are 80% done and I can never get the final 20% done because I'm too busy or more gets added to the final 20%.


Anyone else have this problem?

That sounds like an ideal situation. When someone has too little to do, they get bored, but more importantly, their superiors start thinking about reducing staff.

[mo8414]

I find it extreamly difficult to get only 40 hours of work a week. My employer seems to think 60 hours a week should be standard. Sometimes I wonder what a 40 week feels like, vacation I can only assume lol