Places you have "worked"

[dellzeqq]

I've done what I suspect many of us have done - conducted work conversations while cycle touring. And the one that I adore is worse - e-mails and phone calls arrive unabated during our holidays, and, if we're en bicyclette we have to stop because I'm carrying her Blackberry. Cue me taking time to stop and stare while she berates some poor producer for not producing or whatever....

 

[NickM]

"Work" = being present at the workplace. That is, "work" is deprivation of liberty (rather than actually doing any of the management's pointless tasks). It comes to an end, in my case, at four o'clock each week day.

If They think that I am going to allow any of their agenda to intrude into Life (which = time spent anywhere other than the workplace), they can jolly well think again.

 

[Kirstie]

On my bike!

 

[Campfire]

It's rather tricky for me to take my work anywhere other than, er, work! I can't get the lorry into the house, for a start.

You could bring bits of it home, sometimes, like Mr Campfire used to do!
I sent him a birthday card once which showed a living room with a huge engine as a centrepiece, bits everywhere & wife saying "I wish you had a b***dy motor bike"

 

[dodgy]

And as the mantra goes when we were persuading our company that working from home will not destroy the company - "Work is an activity, not a location".

I now work from home by the way

 

[swee'pea99]

In my last job, the 'den mum' asked me where I could be contacted while I was on holiday. I said I couldn't. She reacted with an indignant 'but what if one of your jobs goes pear-shaped while you're away?' 'I guess you'll just have to deal with it as best you can,' sez I. 'I think that's a very irresponsible attitude,' says she. I shrugged. 'I can live with that.' And went on holiday.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

"Work" = being present at the workplace. That is, "work" is deprivation of liberty (rather than actually doing any of the management's pointless tasks). It comes to an end, in my case, at four o'clock each week day.

If They think that I am going to allow any of their agenda to intrude into Life (which = time spent anywhere other than the workplace), they can jolly well think again.

I agree. When I left university, one of the things I was absolutely clear about was that whatever job I ended up doing, it had to be one that could only be performed while I was actually at work.

 

[dustystreet]

i'm very glad that i have a 'job' and not a 'career'. which means i dont have to work outside of core work hours or be 'on call'. once the bell has rung at the end of the day, that's it.

it's one of the reasons i'm very happy doing my 'minion' job'. i have no desire to climb the 'corporate ladder' into management which involves three things: dealing with people, writing reports and endless meetings. from what i've seen, the people and meetings take up so much time, the reports have to done in personal time. sod that for a game of soldiers.

nay, i'm in a job where i have plenty of time to drink teacoffee, browse the internet, and keep my home life well separate. my jobs all get done on time so my employers have no complaints. everybody's happy. told my line manager in my review a couple of weeks ago i had no intention of setting any 'personal' objectives'. i'll do whatever the company requires me to do for ym job but that's it. i'm 42, not a graduate or school leaver trying to build a career. just want to do my job to pay the mortgage and go home!

sorry, bit of a rant there!

 

[NickM]

"Work is an activity, not a location".

Nonsense. "Work" is time in which you are not at liberty to do as you wish, sold to an "employer" for tokens. The employer may, or may not, require you to perform tasks (in which you have no interest) during this time. You then exchange the tokens for the necessities of life, there no longer being any other practicable way of obtaining same. Thus, unless you have an alternative source of tokens, you are obliged to relinquish part of your freedom for them.

 

[NickM]

sorry, bit of a rant there!

Not at all! Simply a more realistic view of employment than most.

Not to mention a refreshing lack of self-importance

 

[RabbitFood]

Being a blackberry user and selling to the USA I have worked all over, late at night at home, pubs, trains ect.

But then I do get to take clients out to clubs in NYC all free and sometimes I have to if the client begs me to Gentelmen only Clubs all for free.

So i suppose thats the most weiedest place ever, blackberry on one han, uhumm on the other!!!

 

[dodgy]

Nonsense. "Work" is time in which you are not at liberty to do as you wish, sold to an "employer" for tokens. The employer may, or may not, require you to perform tasks (in which you have no interest) during this time. You then exchange the tokens for the necessities of life, there no longer being any other practicable way of obtaining same. Thus, unless you have an alternative source of tokens, you are obliged to relinquish part of your freedom for them.

We are at cross purposes, I am merely pointing out that a lot of people whose core activity is to sit in front of a computer, the role they fulfil can be carried out wherever there is a computer - not necessarily in the building called the office, work or whatever.

But I think you knew what I meant anyway

 

[NickM]

We are at cross purposes...

Perhaps so

But I maintain that "work" in the sense of "being employed" has nothing to do with tasks undertaken, and everything to do with deprivation of liberty.

By the way, your website is excellent!

 

[Speicher]

I have been paid for "working" things in odd places, as it were.

Swimming, playing football, dancing, knitting, baking cakes, playing snakes and ladders, to name a few. And playing Pool, and walking on the Malvern Hills, and going to a Rowing Club party, line dancing etc.

I was working in a supportive role with people with varying learning disabilities. The above is a list of activities that they enjoyed doing, which I shared with them.

 

[ChrisKH]

Got rid of my Blackberry. Used to get up to it in the middle of the night when it went off.

I also received a transatlantic phone call the day after my son was born at 1.00 am in the morning from the big cheese who 'knew' I would be feeding the baby. Yea right.