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Workload - Andy - 12-13-2006
As the holiday season approaches, is work slowing down for you guys. We had our last big push for the year end on Monday so now we're in cruise control. The PM's aren't even here but we all still have to fake like we're working. I'm so bored. I've pretty much bought everything for the car for next season and we only have a few things left to get for Christmas so no online shopping.
What is your workload looking like for the holiday season and if it's slow, what are you doing to burn up the clock?
- WRXtranceformed - 12-13-2006
It gets hectic for us toward the end of the year. We want to get a bunch of sales before the new year, so everyone goes pretty hard.
- Apoc - 12-13-2006
I should be pretty slow after this week.
This is what I'll be doing to bide my time thanks to Evan.
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Either that some foosball.
- white_2kgt - 12-13-2006
nothing really changes here, just more parties.
- ScottyB - 12-13-2006
it's ironic that i'm posting at all but i'm actually taking a break because my work load has been outrageous. we have some huge trade show in january that i need to have prototype packaging ready for and there is a ton of stuff for the '07 catalogs that i just had to finish.
i've pretty much worked through lunch the past month or two. MM keeps me sane.
- Andy - 12-13-2006
Apoc Wrote:I should be pretty slow after this week.
This is what I'll be doing to bide my time thanks to Evan.
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Either that some foosball.
I would kill to be able to do that but me thinks only unemployment awaits if I visit that site.
- Dragon - 12-13-2006
With my new job things never slow down.
- Mike - 12-13-2006
we're really slow after our release yesterday (we release monthly). i've pushed for no release in december since our november already ate two weeks. if that happens, mucho lax time.
i'll probably play some emulators, we play dawn of war at work, browse to the end of the internet.
- Andy - 12-13-2006
What sites do you guys visit? I'm out of places to timekill places.
- Mike - 12-13-2006
honda-tech
myspace
mm
gizmodo
lifehacker
slashdot
engadget
uncrate
- CaptainHenreh - 12-13-2006
I also check out the MAKE blog. Some crazy shit out there.
- Apoc - 12-13-2006
Andy Wrote:What sites do you guys visit? I'm out of places to timekill places.
add digg.com to mike's list
A decent way to kill time is to feed all these sites to an XML reader 'cause they you have like 30 sites in one place and you can pick and choose what to read.
- ScottyB - 12-13-2006
CaptainHenreh Wrote:I also check out the MAKE blog. Some crazy shit out there.
just glancing through, i can't tell you enough how i am so going to try some of that stuff. awesome!
- Evan - 12-13-2006
my old job (Sapient) got worse around this time of year because we still planned december as a normal month, but of course there is less time and less people to do the work.
- .RJ - 12-13-2006
The software I work on has a yearly reporting cycle from the end of the fiscal year (Sept 30th) until the reports are submitted (by Jan 30th). From October through February I am slammed. Normal week is ~55-60 hrs and I do a lot of work from home in the evenings.
We have lost a lot of people this year (lay offs and quitting), and we have made a lot of new sals this summer/fall, so the workload is streteched *really* thin here. Everyone on the support/implementation side is in the same boat and it sucks.
- Dragon - 12-13-2006
.RJ Wrote:The software I work on has a yearly reporting cycle from the end of the fiscal year (Sept 30th) until the reports are submitted (by Jan 30th). From October through February I am slammed. Normal week is ~55-60 hrs and I do a lot of work from home in the evenings.Sounds similar to my project actually. We lost a lot of people so far this year due to the project contract ending this year and us going up for re-compete, but the workload has remained the same for sustainment/implementation/development, so everyone is feeling the stress here. Hopefully this damn re-compete will go through just fine and we'll start hiring people again. These 60 hour work-weeks are kickin my ass.
We have lost a lot of people this year (lay offs and quitting), and we have made a lot of new sals this summer/fall, so the workload is streteched *really* thin here. Everyone on the support/implementation side is in the same boat and it sucks.
- Feersty - 12-13-2006
It's been slow since I got here. You know how government workers are during the holidays.
- .RJ - 12-13-2006
Feersty Wrote:It's been slow since I got here. You know how government workers are during the holidays.
Almost all of our contracts are with the Fed.... so not always true.
- Feersty - 12-13-2006
.RJ Wrote:Feersty Wrote:It's been slow since I got here. You know how government workers are during the holidays.
Almost all of our contracts are with the Fed.... so not always true.
Got a point, but we don't have a flightline at Bolling, so the workland isn't the same as Andrews or Langley and just getting settled with proper permissions, took forever.
- Sijray21 - 12-13-2006
changed jobs in November and have been in training ever since. Although it's training, it's the hardest i've worked since the final weeks of the semesters at JMU. I'm being placed on a project in January so we'll see how the workload is. Not likely to be light.
My last job had a deadline a week before christmas so the holiday season wasn't not a light time period.