PING: beamendsltd

No Richard I am in too.......as a rule I never work between Xmax and new year due to suppliers being shut etc. But this year I have so much to do.

It does mean ordering ahead but for once I have managed that.

||| Am I the only idiot working today? || || No Richard I am in too.......as a rule I never work between Xmax and || new year due to suppliers being shut etc. But this year I have so || much to do.

I'm working too. It seemed a shame to waste three days of holiday when there's bugger all going on in work. I'm having a nice relaxing three days, quiet, no background "music", breaks when I like, in late, home early, and I've STILL got shedloads more done than a normal 3 days in the factory.

On or around Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:25:55 +0000, beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:

I should be, but I'm reading the newsgroups.

On or around Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:36:30 -0000, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:

there is that. shows how much of the "normal" working day is spent actually working...

|| On or around Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:36:30 -0000, "Richard Brookman" || enlightened us thusly: || ||| ||| I'm working too. It seemed a shame to waste three days of holiday ||| when there's bugger all going on in work. I'm having a nice ||| relaxing three days, quiet, no background "music", breaks when I ||| like, in late, home early, and I've STILL got shedloads more done ||| than a normal 3 days in the factory. || || there is that. shows how much of the "normal" working day is spent || actually working...

Indeed, but don't tell my employers.

An older chap, close to retirement while I was in my first job, was a steam/traction engine fanatic. I once asked him how hard he thought he worked in an average day.

"About twenty percent at the drawbar, son."