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I notice most of the activity on the forum happens during the typical work day for the timezones most of us are in. Surely most of us here must be working nights, then, since nobody here would use valuable working hours to post on here, would they?

Vogateer wrote:I notice most of the activity on the forum happens during the typical work day for many of us. Surely most of us here are working nights, then, since nobody here would use valuable working hours to post on here, would they?

It depends. Where I work we usually go from being very busy to slow lulls in between. During those lulls I have time to do other things.

I have a lot of flexibility with my schedule, so when I carpool with my wife, I'm here for 12 hours. I'm just joking around, but I do notice that there's a lot more activity during the day than at night here on Central Standard Time. But yeah, I'm thankful for the breaks I can take, because 12 hours is a long time.

Vogateer wrote:I have a lot of flexibility with my schedule, so when I carpool with my wife, I'm here for 12 hours. I'm just joking around, but I do notice that there's a lot more activity during the day than at night here on Central Standard Time. But yeah, I'm thankful for the breaks I can take, because 12 hours is a long time.

I think a lot of us are like that. I know I spend a lot of time at work and frequently keep up with other things via rss feed (this forum included). That gives me my much needed sanity breaks here and there

I read my forums at work. I have a certain amount of downtime and work it in. I just don't have much time to spend on the internet at home.

I think it's silly to believe that keeping people from accessing the Internet alone will make them more productive. Not once while I was working that awful job at the bank did I say to myself, “Hey, you know, I can't access any web sites, so I think I'll make some horrible telemarketing calls to bug our own customers at home and generally be a nuisance, all the while not making one red penny more than if I'd just sat in front of my teller station and spaced out.”

Before I discovered how important it was to know people to find a job, I was stuck in an apartment in the summer after spring semester my sophomore year, charging up my credit card, and getting desperate for cash. I broke down and worked at a telemarketing place. It was pretty terrible, but at the very least, they understood that being a telemarketer is pretty horrible job, and they paid you for making sales. Honestly, they put me on the business side, and I started selling AT&T to businesses, and I actually made pretty good money.

The bank was more underhanded, and would try to pretend you'd get some sort of commission, but if the entire branch didn't meet their goals, you got zilch. Not only that, but they just sent all the "incentives" in one lump sum to the supervisor, with absolutely no means to discover who had earned what, so you had to not only make sales and hit goals, but keep track of it along the way and bug your supervisor to actually get paid for it. After they raised our goals so that we had no chance of getting close to them, and made it abundantly clear they weren't going to promote anyone within the branch, guess how much incentive we had to do anything other than not get fired. It was completely insane. The telemarketing place was actually run more reasonably than the bank...