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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #1 on: Nov 18th, 2005, 7:23pm » |
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on Nov 18th, 2005, 5:28pm, Tony_O wrote:| So how many of us study the waiver wire and check the injury reports while at work? |
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GREAT post, Tony! But, I don't know how many of us are going to be willing to answer this question in writing... even on a not all too well-known message-board forum? 
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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #2 on: Nov 18th, 2005, 10:58pm » |
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on Nov 18th, 2005, 7:23pm, StegRock wrote:
GREAT post, Tony! But, I don't know how many of us are going to be willing to answer this question in writing... even on a not all too well-known message-board forum? |
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Hello, everybody. My name is Callie.
(Hi, Callie.)
I used to eat lunch at my desk to track fantasy football. But I also had to spend time on email drafts, in keeping with the season. I worked way more free overtime. Honest.
Besides, how many hours are wasted by employees checking out porn sites at work! Fantasy football is a good, clean hobby!
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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #4 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 12:22pm » |
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on Nov 18th, 2005, 5:28pm, Tony_O wrote:| So how many of us study the waiver wire and check the injury reports while at work? |
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I have to admit that I've even written my Team report from work. I am a fire fighter  so I spend a full 24 hours at work at a time, so the station is my second home. As long as I don't do it during what we call "working hours" it's actually ok. Most fantasy football specific websites are blocked from our network at work. Mostly because I work for the DoD  and with military sensitive material, but also productivity was once in question by DoD employees overall. Usually the culprit was solitaire etc., but then fantasy football  crept into prominence. Around 60% of my fellow FF's log on to fantasy football specific sites at work if they can find them! And of course ...AFTER duty hours!! 
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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #6 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 4:05pm » |
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Okay,... I'll confess, too... At my work-study/part-time jobs last year... I didn't get much in the way of downtime at my first post in the Provost's Office and had a TOTAL  for a boss, actually worked with three 's in all, but still probably managed to squeeze in about an average of an hour a week out of 19 (roughly 5% of my time) that they would NOT have been happy with. But, "at any rate", I got the hell out of Dodge. My next post in the library provided more in the way of downtime - at least some of every day was just spent at a desk awaiting patrons' questions, which meant that being on the internet was okay/seamless during those times, and I would say that that amounted to about five or so of my 21 hours per week (roughly 25% of my time). But, then, after a BIG screw-up occurred in my work-study funding (but, in CUA's defense, they still did the right thing and paid me the inflated hourly rate work-study workers get for the hours I worked under the pretense that it was work-study... and, in any event, this all (as you will see) turned out to be a TOTAL blessing in disguise...), I was converted to a part-time worker assigned to a special web site project (at a special slightly inflated pay rate) for the section of the library in which I had been working, the "Religious Studies & Philosophy Library", so I was stationed behind a computer all day long. You can imagine how many of my 10 work hours per week I was spending on FantasyFootballer.com-related activities, but, that having been said, I almost always just wound up staying later, in essence, making up my hours, but in truth quite often working more. The thing, though, is that that made me look overly dedicated, like an extra-hard worker, and that's not to say that I wasn't, but in fact my staying after hours was for the most part to make up (for) the hours I shit away on FF. In any event, and here's the real kicker,... I'm now some 5,500 miles away from DC in Hawaii, and who is my part-time employer, from whom am I receiving a paycheck...??? The Catholic University of America, for whom I, from home, continue work on the aforementioned special project!!! This is because they were THAT pleased with my output, the quality and quantity of it!!! (And, no, my boss in the "Religious Studies & Philosophy Library" has absolutely NO interest in fantasy football, just to be absolutely clear.) You could NOT ask for a better part-time job situation for a graduate student.
So, what's the moral of the story,... of all these stories? Marx had a VERY valid point...  and the best work is done EFFICIENTLY by WELL-RESTED and HAPPY people, not by just filling up the time between "punch in" and "punch out". I understand that some industries, like service industries, just need bodies at scheduled times, BUT the "real" work across the board could probably be done in half the time and at a much higher level of quality, mind you, if workers were given increased flexibility in managing their work hours and more leisure and rest time during which to refuel themselves and content their minds with hobbies and enjoying this life we have.
BUT, that's not the modus operandi of the powers-that-be. "They" want a system/way of life in place that maintains the status quo advantageous to themselves... What exactly is it that we so often refer to as the "rat race"? The rat race is a system as "they" (perhaps unwittingly, to be just a bit generous) see it, a way of life as I see it, that must be maintained so that the deep pockets of the deep-pocketed continue to be thickly-lined and the high positions of the well-positioned remain by and large out of "our" reach. 
I REALLY hope Philly responds/feels comfortable responding to this thread because I gather that he is a fantastic worker, and...
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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #7 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 4:47pm » |
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I too was thinking of Jeff when I was writing the post, not because I thought of him as being unproductive, but because I knew he had an opportunity to partake in the pleasures of FF while at work.
I have to admit when I was in my management position with my current employer,(mind you a salary position with overtime as an implied expectation without legal right to enforce) I scanned the waiver wire, looked at new posts on FFballer.com , made posts, did online drafts, you name it. However, I, like Steve, frequently had to stay at work to make up for the lost time. Although, I'm sure my employer wouldn't have been thrilled if they were aware of my actions, I believe that they got their money's worth out of me. I second the opinion that porn at work is much more inappropriate and disrespectful.
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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #8 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 11:39pm » |
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Quote:| A consultant firm was paid to do a study on the loss of productivity due to employees "working" on Fantasy Football instead of doing their actual job. This firm produced a report that estimated a 196.1 million dollar loss in productivity in the U.S. alone. |
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Crap ! That's insane, although I believe it. Nevertheless, I plan on firing everybody when I get back to work on Monday.
Actually, it's interesting, at the Fortune-50 company I work at, they do monitor internet usage, and in fact have taken steps to proactively block idle time-wasting stuff like fantasy sports sites.
As for porn or gambling sites, visting those will get you terminated, as well they should.
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Re: An Amazing Fantasy Football Number
« Reply #9 on: Nov 20th, 2005, 1:21am » |
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on Nov 19th, 2005, 11:39pm, junkyardjake wrote:| Actually, it's interesting, at the Fortune-50 company I work at, they do monitor internet usage, and in fact have taken steps to proactively block idle time-wasting stuff like fantasy sports sites. |
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Glad to hear that the American rat race is alive and well. 
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) and even those that aren't often time out. So, the only time I can be sure to get online is at home, where I have a wife and 2-year old also making demands of my time. Unfortunately I've gotten to the point where I can just about check/change my lineups during the week and not a whole lot else. Almost no time for research (which probably explains my success in GBRFL2 this year 
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