Timelordwho wrote:
Majivo wrote:
rdmcandie wrote:
You know what I did last night, I sat in my office playing Super Mario 3D land for 5 hours until we had a controls issue that I had to go fix. I did 3 minutes of work (turns out a proxy got oil on it and it was stuck on.) then I went and had an hour lunch. The last 2 hours of my night was spent talking with friends around the plant from the comfort of my Golf Cart.
This is exactly why people get fired. Surprise! You don't bring in nearly as much value as you cost your company, and you should be glad they aren't taking a closer look. If you got fired, no way should the company redistribute that pay to other employees - it's not like you'd be missed.
And just for the record, no, I'm not jealous. I belong to the class of people who prefer having a fulfilling job rather than one where I'm able to describe myself as a "lazy @#%^".
He may very well be providing the company a lot of value by basically acting as a cheap insurance policy for the plant breakages. It's not a huge stretch to imagine a simple problem that could cause a few hours downtime to coordinate a fix which would also cost quite a lot more in terms of both management resources combined with the opportunity cost of plant downtime.
They aren't really paying him to fix the minute things, rather paying to have him onsite for cases where there is a critical failure. I've seen cases where companies cheap out on this sort of stuff and a 5 min fix becomes a 500k problem because failures compounded without adequate supervision.
More or less this. I love sitting around waiting for stuff to break because there is only one thing I like more than playing with my 3DS while at work, and that is actually doing the job that I was hired to do, that I spent a bunch of money getting trained to do. Some days I don't have to do a damn thing, and that is welcome, some days (like this weekend for example, and the week after christmas when most are off) I have to work a lot.
Evidently the experience of some people when it comes to factory maintenance is non existent. If I am sitting on my *** that means I have done my job extremely well. It means I have set the controls to the point where they are functioning without errors. Which means I earned my money. The less I have to work in a day speaks to my ability to work. Granted I get to work on awesome days like Canada Day, Labor Day, New Years Day, (pretty much every weekend long or not) I also get to work during such glorious times as Summer and Winter shutdown when the production personnel are all off for 2 weeks with pay.
Being in maintenance has it perks and its draw backs, one of the perks just happens to be that I get a lot of free time during shift work, then again I sacrifice a lot of free time to get free time on weekends/holidays/shutdowns.
Do I like my lazy **** days. You bet I do, its why I work 7 days a week generally 49 weeks a year. Sometimes you just have to enjoy the little things.
