WOHM's who say they have to work
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WOHM's who say they have to work
| Sun, 10-29-2006 - 4:17pm |
For those of you that WOH and say you have to do it to make ends meet. Do you really do it to make ends meet or do you do it cause you want to keep up a certain lifestyle? Do you know how to live with out debt or without having to keep up with the joneses?
ETA Please excuse all my siggys. Obviously I dont know how to turn them off. I thought I did.


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Sigh.
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You indicated that employees shouldn't have access to the internet. I MUST have access. By needing access to the internet at any given moment at work, it makes it easy, an non-interfering, for me to keep the board open in another window and check it periodically. And, since I'm connected and working with the internet at almost all times, it doesn't detract from my work to do so.
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I'm sure there are. Mine isn't one of them.
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Why would I? Of course, according to jendia I shouldn't be shredding anyway, because shredding isn't in my job description. I could go all power trip and make our office assistant do it. It is more in line with her job description than mine.
And if I consider her as a SAHM her job to be physically caring for her child (akin to what my DCP's job) she is posting during her working hours and neglecting her job. Or the alternative is that she has just proven that she does not work as a SAHM and indeed does not have a job.
Which is it?
is that a subtle hint that your job is something more than an office assistant? like i said,my dh is a boss.....the subordinate with less to do,waiting for copies to print,waiting for the shredder or the next to do,is more likely the one to noodle,too.
and his subordinates' computer access is definately a more limited version. peace. :)
Edited 11/4/2006 12:59 pm ET by egd3blessed
ok. i give.
what part of post 933 didn't you read? i do noodle here,i google and shop ebay during the day,too. what i don't do is waste an employer's dime doing it.......and i'm sorry you feel it necessary to measure my day to your dcp. it's really not much different than your woh day,maybe even better. i don't noodle here then leave my kids for work.
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No hint and not subtle. My job isn't anything close to that of an office assistant. It is "more" in terms of responsibility, authority, required education and skills, but not "more" as in more important. Our office assistant is of huge value to our office; we'd be lost without her (speaking of which, we might be; she has a job interview on Monday.)
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I wouldn't know. Not only am I really not "subordinate" to anyone right now, but no one is a subordinate to me either. I do have a boss, but my workload does not come from her, nor does she control it in any way.
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Okay. I have no reason to debate that with you or believe otherwise; I have no idea what his office is like. In *my* office, the office assistant and I have much more use for the internet than my boss does, and it's much more important for me to have internet access than for my boss to.
Somehow I think you're using subordinate in a pejorative or negative tone here. That's one reason why I truly don't use the word in regular conversation. It has such a negative connotation. No one in our office is viewed as a "subordinate." Shrug.
So, if you had an employer who was on the computer posting on message boards (very lengthy posts, I might add)for a good part of the day, that wouldn't alarm you?
Maybe it was just a freak day for that employee then.
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If her work got done? Nope. Wouldn't alarm me. In fact, my boss watched an episode of Lost from the ABC website while she was at work the other day. Didn't bother me a bit.
Oh, and the three of us in our office spent some time playing an online movie game (from the M&Ms website) last week too.
"No one should be criticising people for how much time they spend here."
Why? We criticize each other for our WOHM/SAH status all the time.
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