confessions of a talentless, useless waster

[mark]

How did I miss this thread...

Mark, as a senior in the same field, I ought to guide you on the right path to attain decent work-life balance and generally have a wholesome healthy lifestyle. Here are the 5 things you should incorporate from today.

1. You don't seem to be spending any quality time chatting to colleagues around printers (you have to print something every couple of hours), kitchen/tea/coffee machine areas, toilets, corridors. In other words you must network more. Keeps you informed about office gossip + any interesting openings coming up in the company. Or gives you ideas to create your own role as you see a need for it.
2. Install msn/yahoo messenger and catch up with friends. Chat to friends at work and spread above gathered gossip.
3. This is very important. Take a holiday every three months. Go somewhere very nice. When you are back from hols, you have something to chat about at places mentioned in 1. When this dries out it wil be time to plan the next holiday and chat about that. Ofcourse you have internet at your disposal to research and book your hols.
4. Organise team outings. This will make you popular, increases your networking circle to management level plus gives you a very good reason to stand about discussing the arrangements.
5. Remember if you don't have a job you can't take decent hols. So be happy you have a job. But secretly wish for your company to go to the dogs. Hopefully you'll get made redundant, i.e., get paid to leave. Have a great holiday before you find your next job.

Sanx

thanks San. this advice might get me through the next year, but the next 30 years? not a chance.

It is only a survival tactic for as long as you have to endure in your current job, son. 30 years, oh no, within the next 3 years you will be doing more interesting stuff provided you keep your eyes and ears open. Until then, have fun

San, there's not a single job in this (or any company) that would interest me i think. i just don't think the whole thing means anything, from bottom to top.

[Jaszalcatraz]

No matter how much I rant........truth remains like I dream of being in your positions. Seems very comfortable from where I'm sitting. Work all day and party all night. Lucky yous!!

[akhilis2cool]

No matter how much I rant........truth remains like I dream of being in your positions. Seems very comfortable from where I'm sitting. Work all day and party all night. Lucky yous!!

work? what work r u talking abt.?

[Jaszalcatraz]

No matter how much I rant........truth remains like I dream of being in your positions. Seems very comfortable from where I'm sitting. Work all day and party all night. Lucky yous!!

work? what work r u talking abt.?

See......imagine the kinda ideas that little kids like me get when we are told things like that.

[akhilis2cool]

No matter how much I rant........truth remains like I dream of being in your positions. Seems very comfortable from where I'm sitting. Work all day and party all night. Lucky yous!!

work? what work r u talking abt.?

See......imagine the kinda ideas that little kids like me get when we are told things like that.

Koi baat nahi dheere tumbhi seekh jaoge. esp. if u end up in the IT sector. Which I dont think u shd. do...

[mark]

No matter how much I rant........truth remains like I dream of being in your positions. Seems very comfortable from where I'm sitting. Work all day and party all night. Lucky yous!!

have to say i don't miss my college days (except the sports parts)

they were great and all, i'm glad they're over though. so i know what you mean.

It was nice to have a focus, though, like exams or whatever. and the piece of paper you get at the end makes it all worth while.

[The Jackal]

I prefer college life to the real world.I can live off my parents and party all day.

[ycr007]

Almost all of the Teenyboopers who are Just outta College Think Jus'

liek JAsz.C'mon after all they've burnt midnight oil jus to be in a HiFlyin' Job.

And most of them may turn out to be alphageeks who bring about a drastic

change in the way their corp functions.Tho it may sound Optimistic,it may

happen.

And whether they get the Blues or not after some years of working is upto

conjecture.Truth is,no matter how bad the destiantion will be,everyone

will race their ass off trying to get there.

[san]

How did I miss this thread...

Mark, as a senior in the same field, I ought to guide you on the right path to attain decent work-life balance and generally have a wholesome healthy lifestyle. Here are the 5 things you should incorporate from today.

1. You don't seem to be spending any quality time chatting to colleagues around printers (you have to print something every couple of hours), kitchen/tea/coffee machine areas, toilets, corridors. In other words you must network more. Keeps you informed about office gossip + any interesting openings coming up in the company. Or gives you ideas to create your own role as you see a need for it.
2. Install msn/yahoo messenger and catch up with friends. Chat to friends at work and spread above gathered gossip.
3. This is very important. Take a holiday every three months. Go somewhere very nice. When you are back from hols, you have something to chat about at places mentioned in 1. When this dries out it wil be time to plan the next holiday and chat about that. Ofcourse you have internet at your disposal to research and book your hols.
4. Organise team outings. This will make you popular, increases your networking circle to management level plus gives you a very good reason to stand about discussing the arrangements.
5. Remember if you don't have a job you can't take decent hols. So be happy you have a job. But secretly wish for your company to go to the dogs. Hopefully you'll get made redundant, i.e., get paid to leave. Have a great holiday before you find your next job.

Sanx

thanks San. this advice might get me through the next year, but the next 30 years? not a chance.

It is only a survival tactic for as long as you have to endure in your current job, son. 30 years, oh no, within the next 3 years you will be doing more interesting stuff provided you keep your eyes and ears open. Until then, have fun

San, there's not a single job in this (or any company) that would interest me i think. i just don't think the whole thing means anything, from bottom to top.

2 options:

1. just get on with it

2. quit and do whatever it is that pleases you

[mark]

How did I miss this thread...

Mark, as a senior in the same field, I ought to guide you on the right path to attain decent work-life balance and generally have a wholesome healthy lifestyle. Here are the 5 things you should incorporate from today.

1. You don't seem to be spending any quality time chatting to colleagues around printers (you have to print something every couple of hours), kitchen/tea/coffee machine areas, toilets, corridors. In other words you must network more. Keeps you informed about office gossip + any interesting openings coming up in the company. Or gives you ideas to create your own role as you see a need for it.
2. Install msn/yahoo messenger and catch up with friends. Chat to friends at work and spread above gathered gossip.
3. This is very important. Take a holiday every three months. Go somewhere very nice. When you are back from hols, you have something to chat about at places mentioned in 1. When this dries out it wil be time to plan the next holiday and chat about that. Ofcourse you have internet at your disposal to research and book your hols.
4. Organise team outings. This will make you popular, increases your networking circle to management level plus gives you a very good reason to stand about discussing the arrangements.
5. Remember if you don't have a job you can't take decent hols. So be happy you have a job. But secretly wish for your company to go to the dogs. Hopefully you'll get made redundant, i.e., get paid to leave. Have a great holiday before you find your next job.

Sanx

thanks San. this advice might get me through the next year, but the next 30 years? not a chance.

It is only a survival tactic for as long as you have to endure in your current job, son. 30 years, oh no, within the next 3 years you will be doing more interesting stuff provided you keep your eyes and ears open. Until then, have fun

San, there's not a single job in this (or any company) that would interest me i think. i just don't think the whole thing means anything, from bottom to top.

2 options:
1. just get on with it
2. quit and do whatever it is that pleases you

eh, yeah i realised that on the last page

anyone in this situation has just 2 choices
1. Get out
2. Stay in

i'm just pissed at the modern work ethic, its such a load of bullshit. wanted to see if i was alone or if others think its a total joke too.



Ah well, at least back home it would be perfectly acceptable for me to work on a building site, or behind a bar. i get the empression if an educated person in India did that it'd be seen as a step down (why exactly? what a crock of grade A horse shite)

[akhilis2cool]

well u know mark bhai.

no good salary means no good girl would marry u...it also means less dowry

[mark]

well u know mark bhai.
no good salary means no good girl would marry u...it also means less dowry

1. comp engineering doesn't pay well

2. who wants to marry a good girl, anyway? i want someone naughty.

[daisy]

well u know mark bhai.
no good salary means no good girl would marry u...it also means less dowry

you expect dowry akhil



go read 'Watch out....else one day men have to fight for Rights !!' thread 100 times from top to bottom, thats your punishment for today

[CtrlAltDel]

who wants to marry a good girl, anyway? i want someone naughty.

but the naughty ones are known to prefer rich men with one foot in the grave

[mark]

who wants to marry a good girl, anyway? i want someone naughty.

but the naughty ones are known to prefer rich men with one foot in the grave

true. i'll have to try to find an independently wealthy naughty woman who likes smelly unemployed Irishmen. form an orderly queue ladies.

[daisy]

who wants to marry a good girl, anyway? i want someone naughty.

but the naughty ones are known to prefer rich men with one foot in the grave

not a bad idea

[CtrlAltDel]

who wants to marry a good girl, anyway? i want someone naughty.

but the naughty ones are known to prefer rich men with one foot in the grave

not a bad idea

no...no...no...neither am i wealthy nor that old...

[daisy]

vaddu baava thappu

saali aadhi gharwali...

no...no...no...neither am i wealthy nor that old...

thats my last option, you are always home anyway

[lizard king]

and secondly..... so far... i love what i am doing. and given another chance to do sosmethign else, i would definitely do what i am doing right now(unless we are talking about rock star fame). the only down side, i dont get paid as much, but thats alright, i can feed myself alright and live an alright life. In terms of job satisfaction and motivation, i think i am in a perfect job, ther is always some thing new to do everyday i come to work.

How nice.

So what do you do LK?

i do nothing.

[akhilis2cool]

well u know mark bhai.
no good salary means no good girl would marry u...it also means less dowry

you expect dowry akhil

go read 'Watch out....else one day men have to fight for Rights !!' thread 100 times from top to bottom, thats your punishment for today

1. Me no telugu fellow

2. Me not into IT

[mark]

sorry to dig this up again. I've been doing some study on generation gaps, and working habits. Generation X had their "McJobs", go-nowhere service industry jobs, low wage, low dignity, etc.

I was wondering if anyone has heard any phrase coined for the typical jobs of the Y generation? As a generation Y'ers are well educated, individualistic, tech savvy (tech obsessed really), the characteristic job seems to be office based, poorly defined (i.e. we are trusted to use our initiative a lot), unclear paths to advancement, team based (and all the other interview buzzwords), prone to inventing and propagating Bizspeak (e.g. "blue skying", "helicopter thinking", "onboarding", etc.)



Anyone want to coin a phrase if none exists?

[ycr007]

Anyone want to coin a phrase if none exists?

Generation.U:Unemployed

[The Jackal]

Anyone want to coin a phrase if none exists?

Generation.U:Unemployed

Thats your status......not marks.

[ycr007]

Anyone want to coin a phrase if none exists?

Generation.U:Unemployed

Thats your status......not marks.

Yeah Thanx for Reminding



BTW thatz the Phrase I coined-Gen U

[mark]

well i was talking about coining a phrase for our jobs, not our generation, as someone has already done that. also this generation faces the lowest unemployment figures ever.