please tell me why...

[MiniN]

please tell me why I was fooloish enough to work through my dinner when the rest swanned off to the pub?

I must be a fool!

[funnygirl]

I've done that too!!

And sat there working until 5 when they still haven't rolled back!!!

What I do now is, because Idon't think I should be penalised for not going, I just come home!!!!

[4getmenot]

Well I am wondering how long it takes to have a beer because either some people are fibbing on here or they can go out and down a drink in about 2mins

[MiniN]

4getmenot, I don't get ya?

funnygirl - i wouldn't mind if they all appreciated what I do.

[4getmenot]

if you read other posts you will :-)

[Lucy Thomas]

Because you are under the misapprehension that your extra work will be noticed and prived Brownie points. You now realise that it doeasn't work like that.

I started in my present job 23 years ago. After about two weeks, I realised that nobody else gave a damn so I thought why should I.

Only do enough and no more. no one will thank you for it if you do more.

[col craddock]

The very fact that your posting right now means your not working, doesnt it????????

[MiniN]

lucy - it was totally not about brownie points - i'm not like that at all. i just had work to do thats all. plus the boss freaked last week when we all went for a quick drink and said we couldnt leave the office unmanned! so i guess they must have volunteered me to stay behind and not tell me - rude!

thing is, the people who went out lost one of their crew and phoned me in the office and asked ME to call this person to make sure they got to the pub ok!? I'm not a blooming PA!!!!

[MiniN]

col - i'm totally multi-tasking :oP

[Lucy Thomas]

Then tell them that and stop being a dogsbody.

[whiffey]

Is anybody else wondering what "prived" means? Not that it matters obviously.

[4getmenot]

No!!!! Dont tell me Lucy meant to put proved????

[4getmenot]

Whiffey I know you have been dying for months to catch Lucy out on spelling, Pssss me too, well done though :-)

[whiffey]

Thank you, {bows pathetically like a true plonker}

I forbore to mention the doeasn't because it's such an obvious typo, but by and large I watch speling pedants like a hawk.

[raysparx1]

what you have got to remember MiniN, is that todays favours become tomorrows habits, don't do it, make sure you always have your lunch break, they will not think any more of you for working through.

[Lucy Thomas]

Now come on Whiffey. 'Speling'?

[4getmenot]

but whiffey isnt always quick to tell people about spelling mistakes like you Lucy

[figure]

"please tell me why I was fooloish enough to work through my dinner when the rest swanned off to the pub?
I must be a fool!"

You're not a fool. You are loyal to your job and feel responsible and dedicated to it. Those are character traits of a good employee.

Lucy does have a point though. Employers don't care about their employees. Their concerns are making profit and progress.