As an engineer with unlimited web access, I would cruise the internet, email, and make personal phone calls while at work, but I never allowed it to interfere with meeting my commitments or holding up my end on a project. There were occasionally slow times in between projects where I would spend the majority of my day on personal stuff. That didn't happen often, and I didn't like it. Much easier to
be busy than trying to
look busy.
I had a newly-hired engineer sitting in the next cube that totally ignored his work and just surfed the 'net on golfing sites all day. He lasted about two months before they showed him the door. The guy who replaced him got cell phone calls from his wife about 20 times a day. When he was complaining to me about it one day, I told him to just turn off his phone. He looked at me like I was crazy...
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Originally Posted by rusnak
Given that I work maybe 80+ hrs a week....
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Man, that's insane! Ever consider a different line of work?