Working 24/7

Just anothe rself absorbed individual who thinks look at me i work harder than anyone else i should get more pay.Get a life and get real already the office will not fall apart if you go on vacation and don't check in for two full weeks.Its like a miracle they can operate without you since you are so IMPORTANT.

Was told by several CIS professors that "Once your company issues you a laptop, cell phone, blackberry, ect. you have sold your soul to the corporate devil." Seems they knew what they, the CIS professors, were talking about.

Several years ago there was a radio commercial about a man calling his significant other to fax him a message to have him call her to remind her to check her voice mail, to remind her to call him to set a date to meet for dinner. Perhaps I got the order and the equipment used i.e. phone, fax, etc., I even forget what the commercial was advertising, however is it not what it has come to, not having as much human contact for the things we really out to be doing. Working to the pace that it does seem like the faster we go, the behinder we get.

All I can get when I ask to see the video is the motorola commercial. How can I get it to go to next? chhello1

takes a lot of awareness to use the technology properly. Meditation might be valuable in this area of work interspliced with machine versatility

All work and no play, makes for one stressed out person. Didn't the guy upstairs take a rest on Sunday and told us all to do the same? Life can not be all about work, and business. Life is suppose to be about working so you can enjoy your times to relax, sleep, eat and share times with family & others. We do not stay young forever and should stop to smell the roses once in awhile. Remember, it is not the destination but the journey that counts.

I love technology but really feel the purposes it's being used and the expectations are beyond realistic. I cringe to think that now you can even use your laptop in flight and be connected to the internet. It's bad enough laptops have killed downtime on flights but now you're plugged into the Net. Sorry, but if my boss said I had to work during an exhausting 14 hour flight, I'd tell him to go do deep knee bends on a fire hydrant. This wired world is also leading to no privacy. What the heck did we do back in the '70's? I seem to remember we got things done just fine.

I often tell my husband, who has a "Supervisor" position at his office that if he were to "leave" some things unfinished or were to not put in such long hours, the job would still be there tomorrow. But his prior military background will not allow him to just leave it or "half-a**" complete the job. I feel for him because being a "salaried" employee in the civilian sector I see how he is being taken somewhat advantage of. I have told him that if he were to die tomorrow, the company would probably send flowers and they may even appear over a lunch break hour, but that would be it. They would not be as faithful to him, as he has been to them, which is truly sad. But it is what it is! k

As an attorney, I frequently communicate with my clients via instant message or e-mail. This gives me the opportunity to save the text of what was said, and to later forward the saved text to the client when I bill them. I suggest to others if your employers expect you to be available 24/7 via internet, save the text and forward the same to your employer in a manner that enables you to be compensated for your time.

Consider this perspective from a Gen X single parent trying to be successful at work and at home. I may not get the job done by conventional means (9 to 5 in the office) but I will get it done. My trade of is not selling my soul, because I know how to shut down when it is appropriate. I also do not disappoint my daughter because I can leave work early to attend a school event and my boss can't say "look at the female with kids, can't depend on her!" Technology lets me be flexible. My only struggle has been to convince my company that it doesn't matter how you get the work done, just that you do and you do it right.