"Well, work is called work and not vacation for a reason. Work is not something that is fun and exciting for most people and IMHO it shouldn't be."
The parent wasn't saying work should be fun and exciting. People get bored at work for a variety of reasons: e.g. your dumbass MBA shithead boss gives you the oh so complex task of formatting an excel spreadsheet so that the background color is purple. And then disappears for the day. Or, your boss is so busy reviewing things that he has no time to assign you anything (this happens to me quite often, and it's NOT because I don't look for something to do).
These situations happen all the time. What is the worker to do in between bouts of productivity? Exactly, either go home (which would probably get you fired in most jobs, thankfully, not in mine) or jerk around until something is passed on to you. And please don't say "well you should be able to keep yourself busy", in some jobs, you can't do that. For example, I am not allowed to commit hours to doing things that would keep me 'productive/busy' (e.g. cleaning up the office, reorganizing the file system on the file server).
A lot of people slack off when they SHOULD be working. This is true, however, in my experience I've rarely seen that happen, and those people tend to get canned pretty quickly.
It's not always a fun/excitment issue, it's a management issue. Judging by the "work != fun" response, I have to wonder if you're not in management?
Mods: How is this insightful exactly?
Parent: How does the quality of Microsoft software have anything to do with communication with an extraterrestrial species? Right, it doesn't. Drop the MS holy war, moron.
To me, there's something not quite right about claiming that an operating system that's based on an old operating system is on the forefront of technology.
Hey, your cabin in the woods is on fire, better go tend to it before all your explosives go off. Freak.
They most certainly can dictate where Office runs, both office and windows are their products you moron. If someone makes something exclusively for a particular platform, then don't whine and bitch about how it won't run on your platform. You know the solution? Go to the developer of the product in question. I.e. I want Starcraft on linux, why should I bitch at Microsoft? Why didn't Blizzard do a linux native version of it?
I swear some (a great deal actually) of the people on/. really need to see a shrink. You get a little too worked up when you hear the name Microsoft.
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The parent wasn't saying work should be fun and exciting. People get bored at work for a variety of reasons: e.g. your dumbass MBA shithead boss gives you the oh so complex task of formatting an excel spreadsheet so that the background color is purple. And then disappears for the day. Or, your boss is so busy reviewing things that he has no time to assign you anything (this happens to me quite often, and it's NOT because I don't look for something to do).
These situations happen all the time. What is the worker to do in between bouts of productivity? Exactly, either go home (which would probably get you fired in most jobs, thankfully, not in mine) or jerk around until something is passed on to you. And please don't say "well you should be able to keep yourself busy", in some jobs, you can't do that. For example, I am not allowed to commit hours to doing things that would keep me 'productive/busy' (e.g. cleaning up the office, reorganizing the file system on the file server).
A lot of people slack off when they SHOULD be working. This is true, however, in my experience I've rarely seen that happen, and those people tend to get canned pretty quickly.
It's not always a fun/excitment issue, it's a management issue. Judging by the "work != fun" response, I have to wonder if you're not in management?
Mods: How is this insightful exactly? Parent: How does the quality of Microsoft software have anything to do with communication with an extraterrestrial species? Right, it doesn't. Drop the MS holy war, moron.
To me, there's something not quite right about claiming that an operating system that's based on an old operating system is on the forefront of technology.
Hey, your cabin in the woods is on fire, better go tend to it before all your explosives go off. Freak. They most certainly can dictate where Office runs, both office and windows are their products you moron. If someone makes something exclusively for a particular platform, then don't whine and bitch about how it won't run on your platform. You know the solution? Go to the developer of the product in question. I.e. I want Starcraft on linux, why should I bitch at Microsoft? Why didn't Blizzard do a linux native version of it? I swear some (a great deal actually) of the people on /. really need to see a shrink. You get a little too worked up when you hear the name Microsoft.
Seems to me they're trying to shore up more slav... er... workers for their salt min.. sorry, sweatsho... never mind.