Landord replacing carpets when tennants don't want to... advice please

kunekune

Re. working weekends etc. may I humbly suggest some time-management education?? If someone can't manage their time effectively there are alternatives....


Sorry, but I nearly spilt my coffee over my screen at that one. I think the other people on this thread would agree that long hours is not necessarily about poor time management. The long hours culture is normal in professional jobs, we're not unique, though we're less well rewarded than the lawyers in law firms working till midnight every night. Is it poor time management to work a bank holiday weekend marking because the exam wasn't finished until 5.30 on the Friday and the marking deadline was 9 am Tuesday? That's what I was asked to do recently. It's even acknowledged by the university's own workload model. My official load this year is a notional 1800 hours. Er, do the maths! Don't get me wrong, I am lucky to have a relatively well-paid, interesting job, but it comes at a high personal cost. That's all the participants on this thread were pointing out.