My Most Productive Day of the Week Is..
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It is... (Score:1)
Tomorrow.
Until then, I will keep surfing slashdot while at work. :)
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So sorry you have to work on Saturday.
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Re:It is... (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, since in C and C++, the order of evaluation is not specified, it's perfectly possible that in this statement, tomorrow is evaluated before today. If in addition it happens that the day changes exactly in between those evaluations, both will give the same day, resulting in the while condition to give false. So there's a slight chance that you'll actually do work eventually; however the bad news is that you'll have to work right after midnight.
After midnight works for me... (Score:2)
... So there's a slight chance that you'll actually do work eventually; however the bad news is that you'll have to work right after midnight.
Unfortunately I seem to be my most focussed after midnight, so that would actually work for me. Totally messes with my social life and circadian rhythms. Actually, my circadian rhythms seem to be pre-messed.
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We take the server down between 11:30 pm and 12:30 am for maintenance.
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Towards the end of the week (Score:2)
Weekend always screws it up, and I have to start over ramping up from monday.
Re:Towards the end of the week (Score:5, Interesting)
Mondays are a different story. This Monday is the 13th. UGH, man!
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Re:Towards the end of the week (Score:5, Funny)
Someone let the PHB have mod points.
Re:Towards the end of the week (Score:5, Interesting)
Someone should do some kind of mix between horror movies and Office Space, you already got the name for the movie: "Monday the 13th".
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I find weekend overtime work is the most productive also. All the useless dead weight overhead is gone so all I have to do is work. I don't have to answer any stupid questions, jump through hoops to put out fires and all the other inane things bosses find to keep me from getting work done. It's amazing that one weekend generally produces more work than 4 weekdays and I don't have to work nearly as hard.
Sunday (Score:3)
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The Monday work meetings is quite a phenomonen globally. So much so, that at where I work we figured that because all our clients were also having internal meetings on Mondays they would not call us, making Mondays very productive coding days with very little disturbances.
We shifted our own internal meetings to mid week. Our clients would always start having problems on Thurdays/Fridays when they couldn't hit their Monday's meeting targets at the end of the week due to there own disturbance problems. Becaus
Depends on employer (Score:2)
Either they can unleash me as a fury out of hell on the problems, or they can tie down with administrative shitty tasks. They seem to prefer the later.
Re:Depends on employer (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, definitely a missing option:
Any day without meetings!
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Show me a day without meetings first. I don't believe they actually exist anymore.
Mr Krabs said it best: (Score:5, Insightful)
Mr. Krabs: "What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?"
Not that I ever listen to that advice.
Re:Mr Krabs said it best: (Score:4, Funny)
the things that you aren't going to do in the first place . . .
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Disregard if you meant 'waist' line. Or not, I do stand by my initial point.
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Why put off 'till tomorrow what you can put off today?
Yesterday (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yesterday (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yesterday (Score:5, Funny)
The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
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Well, there are days that I care more (or care a little less than usual, in any case) than others.
As a consultant, Mondays are travel days - while I am a little productive, I pretty much wrap everything I need on Sunday nights, so Mondays are rather tiresome. And Monday nights, I pretty much conk the heck out fairly early, and wake up bright and early on Tuesday.
Tuesdays tend to be long, but that's fine cause everyone's well rested and a lot gets done. Wednesdays, by virtue of being the middle of the week,
Re:Yesterday (Score:4, Insightful)
Ouch!!
How many hours a week do you work? I can understand what sounds like long hours if you're working for yourself, but if for someone else...not me. I do 40 hours weeks, and that's it. ON the occasional extra time during crunches, I'll work what it takes, but I WILL get paid for it. I don't work for free.
My free time is the MOST important time to me.
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Depends on your job/industry, I guess. I typically do 60 hours on average on a good week. A light week is 50; holiday weeks are 40ish. And then there are the 100-120 hour weeks. Fortunately, I've only had to do a handful of those - and when they do happen, they are a nightmare. This is pretty average in management consulting. In fact, I'd argue that IT consulting has the same (or worse) hours with poorer pay, which is unfortunate. I-Banking/PE/Big Law tend to be worse, average 60 and 80s/100s being fairly c
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In 1990s I did software consulting. 120 an hour, 40 a week.
These days I make a lot less, but I have great health benefits, time off and I work 4 tens.
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that's an e^(-x) trend - decreasing very fast :)
procrastination (Score:3)
"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow"
Re:procrastination (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. I'd better start procrastinating now, or I'll never be done with it.
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But then again:
"Don't waste time... procrastinate now!"
"I wrote a todo list. Now I can procrastinate more efficiently."
"Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively." -- Tink
And the classic: "What are you doing?" "Nothing" "But weren't you already doing nothing yesterday?" "Yes, and I wasn't finished"
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Never put off til tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.
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Re:procrastination (Score:5, Funny)
Hard work pays off in the long run, but laziness pays off now.
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What a slacker. I waited until today to post this resposne.
Blernsday (Score:2)
I prefer adding extra days to the calendar [tviv.org] when behind schedule.
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Stupid Smarch.
Wait a minute... (Score:1)
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, productive.
As in "I bonk my wife on Sundays, and have produced four kids so far, ergo Sunday is my most productive day".
Or "I scheduled a six-hour meeting on Monday on "Augmenting Core Strategies with Meetings", and this will produce more ulcers than usual; ergo Monday is my most productive day".
under siege (Score:1)
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Missing option: the day before the deadline (Score:5, Insightful)
Although, I suppose tomorrow is pretty close to this...
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If the "The day before the deadline" is your most productive day, then you and your manager aren't doing their jobs right.
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Today is Saturday (Score:1)
Do we expect it to surge ahead tomorrow, or drop further behind?
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Monday.... (Score:1)
Even vs Odd (Score:2)
It seems from the poll results that the even days (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) are more productive than the odd ones.
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If you ask me, Sun/Tues/Thurs/Satur are odd days
Re:Even vs Odd (Score:5, Funny)
If you ask me, Sun/Tues/Thurs/Satur are odd days
If you ask me, any day I'm productive at work is an odd day.
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I'm constantly playing catch-up during the week, Mon-Fri. However, Sat & Sun, there is no need for customer service/support. Therefore, on the weekends, you can get some quiet time in to do some real work, instead of just treading water.
This works best if you're self-employed.
Re:Even vs Odd (Score:4, Funny)
Thursday is definitely an odd day. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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They're only the odd days every other week.
Weekends (Score:4, Insightful)
I am most productive on Saturdays and Sundays because I have to go to my job Mondays–Fridays, which prevents me from getting much of anything interesting or worthwhile done on those days.
With my schedule.... (Score:2)
Re:With my schedule.... (Score:5, Informative)
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I think it's safe to say that none would assume a poster on /. is a male stripper. I just assume you collect tickets and the cinema.
Late Friday (Score:2)
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Thursday is out because I have three meetings. Monday is out because on Monday we end up processing all the work that came in for the whole weekend. Tuesday is out because we end up processing the work that came in after somebody else processed all the work that came in over the weekend. So Wednesday turns out to be a pretty light day compared to th
Missing Option: (Score:5, Funny)
I work for the government you insensitive clod!
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Busiest days. (Score:2)
It seems like Wednesdays, aka hump days, are the busiest days for me. I am not sure if they are productive. Sometimes Tuesdays and Fridays (shouldn't they be slow like Mondays?) get crazy too. :)
Tomorrow (Score:1)
Tommorrow or yesterday (Score:2)
Its hard to say which day is most productive for me, because it is so variable.
I start work at 7am everyday which is 1.5 to 2 hours before anyone else in my team because I am back at university part time. Some days I finish early some times I do a full day's work. Currently uni is out so I am wroking full time.
Usually I get a lot done during these early hours if I do not need to consult with anyone on any matters. Starting early is really useful as I work with a lot of gas baggers that get off-topic real
Thursday (Score:1)
To paraphrase an old Russian saying (Score:2)
Missing option (Score:3)
Febturday! [jt.org]
Saturday (Score:2)
If you define productivity as "amount of beer consumed" (which I do)
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that would be consumptivity, productivity in this case might be the amount of urine (and/or vommit) produced
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Ooh pedantic... well you could argue that because the urine production is a direct result of the beer consumption then drinking beer is indeed driving productivity.
You could also define productivity as "amount of shite spouted as a result of alcohol consumption"
Tomorrow (Score:3)
Success is in my future. And always will be.
Not Any More (Score:2)
To turn the question around... (Score:2)
My least productive day is Wednesday. Far enough in to be tired, not close enough to the weekend that you get the "home straight" surge.
Actually, Tuesdays are pretty shit too. And now I come to think about it, Thursdays aren't much better.
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Friday, Duh! (Score:5, Insightful)
In the modern tech based workplace, it has to be Friday.
Friday is the day when all of the "managers" (suits, project managers, etc.) realize they held meetings all week rather than doing the productive things they promised would be delivered.
Around 10am on Fridays, right as they're getting back from their first Starbucks run of the day, they usually start freaking out that the week's scheduled 40 hours hasn't been started yet. By 11, the Engineers are performing their well rehearsed "We don't launch on Fridays" speeches. By noon, the Engineers have realized it's going to be listened to about as much as it is every other week and get crunching. That leaves 6 hours - seven or eight by the time they stay late - to achieve an impressive 40 hours worth of work.
And thus, Friday is the most productive day in the modern tech based workplace.
Tuesday... (Score:2)
Most productive day... (Score:2)
Procrastination (Score:3)
My favorite poster... (Score:2)
is one of my despair posters, "Procrastination... Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now"
Monday (Score:2)
Because I don't work on mondays the kids are at school so I get a ton of shit done at home. Very productive.
Makerspace day (Score:2)
Weekends I go to the NextFab [nextfabstudio.com] makerspace in Philadelphia (US) to work on my project [halfbakedmaker.org]. That's when I feel the most productive, because I'm producing for myself.
Sunday I get to refine all the stuff I did Saturday, so that's why I chose Sunday.
Now, Monday -- Monday is my grumpiest day.
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According to some huge code repositories I've seen, Wednesdays see the highest amount of code produced, with a bell shaped curve around it. Hump day, indeed.
My personal guess is that Wednesdays gets a boost from all the bad code produced on Mondays, which QA found on Tuesday.
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Okay, just so that we are clear that the company is knowingly and willfully operating in violation of their agreement with the their employees.
Let me guess - you work in one of the "at will" states, where your employer can fire you for any reason they like?
That's the only reason I could see not going to the employment standards board (or whatever they call it where you are), especially for something so obviously cut-and-dried.
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he still should. IF they fire him while a complaint is being looked into, he would rake them over the coals in a lawsuit. At will or no.
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he still should. IF they fire him while a complaint is being looked into, he would rake them over the coals in a lawsuit. At will or no.
From what I hear, they simply make up *any* other reason to fire him, and "at will" means that he doesn't have recourse (unless he can somehow prove that the termination is directly related to the complaint). I suppose you might catch a dumb employer that way...
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havent tried this myself yet, but it comes recommended by a rather productive colleaque of mine:
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ [pomodorotechnique.com]