Workaholics, tough or not systematic workers?
By chiquitita
@chiquitita (1226)
Indonesia
January 25, 2007 5:59am CST
I often see this kind of people at work. They work longer than they should as if the task will never ever be finished (yes, it will never be finished because when you finished one, another will come right after, but come on..), bring home the unfinished task to be finished before tomorrow morning. I do have a friend of that kind and she's proud of that because she thinks that it's time to prove her competency. Even in the evening she still received calls concerning her work. I agree with people who want to establish a good career, I am with them. But I believe to have good career goals, you have to be professional. It's about how you manage your time and I think being too available is not good. I personally will never bring my tasks home. I work from 8am-5pm and the rest are my resting hours. I wont stay at office beside that time except for emergency. I am a workaholic at those hours, but other than that is my big no. What's your say?
2 responses
@zal3x89 (280)
• Romania
25 Jan 07
A workaholic is a person addicted to work. This addiction may be pleasurable to the victim or it may be burdensome and troubling.Workaholism is believed by some to be a disease, akin to obsessive compulsive disorder. The problem is that workaholics believe that if they do not work, their world will collapse. Workaholics do not necessarily love their work or try to excel in their work. If a person thinks he or she is the only person capable of performing their work, he or she is most likely a workaholic. Although most workaholism is associated with a paying job, it can also be associated with people who excessively practice sports, music, art, or blogging, for example.
@chiquitita (1226)
• Indonesia
25 Jan 07
I agree with that point. They often believe that they're the only ones who are capable of doing their duties and the whole world is depending on them. That's a real surprise when workaholism is categorised as a disorder. That's quite a good info for me, thanks!
@steelmoggy (410)
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30 Mar 07
My own experience has been that most workaholics are either working for really badly managed companies or are just not up to their jobs. Or, they just hate their families. :-)
I have occasionally been brought in to companies to manage teams of software developers. the first thing I do is look at the timesheets of the programmers - those guys slogging their guts out working 40+ hours over a 5 day week I take on one side and explain that, realistically, they're probably only effective for 6 hours a day.
I then make sure that all estimates for work are done on the basis of a 6 hour working day - that allows for meetings, coffee breaks, daydreaming, etc. And I find that almost immediately the deadlines start being hit, stress levels drop, work is better quality and less re-working and bug-fixing is required.
Some years ago I worked with one fellow who ws a great guy but did 9 and 10 hour days. And then made DUMB mistakes that cost us days to fix! That was SO counterproductive.
Many workaholics are just not effective; they make themselves look busy and valuable to teh company, but if you step back and look at what they actually ACHIEVE, chances are it's nowhere near as much as they think.
