Re: Workplace issues

[Laura Praderio Lynn <lpraderio -at- alpineclimbs -dot- com>]

hello,

from many years ago i recall a statistic that a tech writer can work 
about two thirds of the day doing "hard" tech writer work (writing) and 
then the rest of the day doing administrative/other duties. this equates 
to somewhere around two to three finished pages per day. i use these 
numbers to build my budgets and project time/costs for tech writing.

so i agree that 100% tech writing every minute would be hard to achieve 
given the focus required.

cheers,
laura


quills -at- airmail -dot- net wrote:
> I really find all this rather humorous, in a gallows humor sort of way.
> 
> I will give value for what I am hired to do. However, expecting 100% 
> use of your time on the job from 8-5 is most unrealistic. No one, not 
> even CEOs devote all of their time to the company during a day. You 
> are paid for your time, and to accomplish a job. That is all. The 
> concept that they own all of your time is ludicrous.
> 
> Bathroom breaks? Breaks for rest? Clear your mind? Avoid repetitive 
> stress injuries?
> 
> Let us get real. Any manager who insists upon 100% all the time with 
> no personal business occurring is not only unreasonable, they are not 
> close to being a leader, and what is worse, they probably are not 
> effective as a manager in the first place.
> 
> I have a life. And if a company cannot accept that, I won't work for 
> them. Good luck to them, because they will need it. I'll probably 
> avoid their product as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 9:33 AM -0400 7/21/08, Cardimon, Craig wrote:
>>  > I take my personal laptop to work with me. For doing anything for the
>>>  company, I use the company laptop that it hardwired to their net. For
>>>  doing anything personal, even something as mild as checking my email,
>> I
>>>  use my laptop, which has a Sprint wireless modem. So if I connect to
>> the
>>>  Internet from my personal laptop, that goes through the same structure
>> as
>>>  my cell phone uses and does not involve company assets in any way. So
>> even
>>>  if I do accidentally get something nasty installed on my laptop,
>> there's
>>>  no way to pass it to the company.
>> Sadly, this does involve company assets. This involves company time.
>> Companies are usually fairly flexible about this, but it should still be
>> acknowledged. I am not a manager but I know how they think.  From 8 - 5
>> or whenever, you're on company time. There was a discussion on another
>> list about this. People wanted to do creative writing -- hopefully on
>> their lunch hour -- and didn't know how to do this without involving
>> company assets. The consensus seemed to be to use a USB stick. Okay,
>> fine. Then a real live manager chimed in, saying that, if you do
>> anything but your job on company time, then -- technically speaking --
>> you are stealing from him, and that's called theft. I'm just saying.
>>
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