My completely boring day has got me thinking about what what everyones day looks like. I mean be really honest how much WORK do you actually do??????

 

Mine

 

930 check my e-mail

950 e-mails replied to

10.00 Go up stairs for free bacon sandwiches and coffee in the building we are in. Get forced to listen to some companies wittering on until we run out at 1055 saying we have a conference call.

11-1230 On here, BBC news, read a bit.

1230-1400 On here again, answer two e-mails stand outside having a ten minute meeting.

1400-1415 ask all my staff how they are getting on make a few management suggestions then back to my desk.

1415-1600 go between here, and bbc news and now ebay to see if there are any little bits I need.

1600-1615 wonder around the office chatting answer a few e-mails

1615-now on here.

 

You know when I take all the crap out my day I actually only work about an hour a day. No wonder im so bored all the time :thumbdown: If I didnt own the place I would have to leave lol.

Edited April 21, 201015 yr by madmax

My day at work (Merc garage)

 

8.00 - open the garage.

 

8.01-6.00 - mass mayhem as all customers booked in want their cars back by 10.00 even when they only got to our garage at 9.00. Tell reception staff that we cant get a whole days work done by lunch, staff agree but keep promising jobs for 10.00, 11 at a push. Meanwhile many customers turn up out of the blue wanting a "quick" diagnosis carrying out on why some warning light has come on or their engine/gearbox is going into limp mode. Mobilo breakdown service and/or AA, RAC etc like to turn up & drop off some more cars - god, where am I going to put them?! Forecourt is full & customers cant park - sales go mad as they are losing sales as no-one can get onto the forecourt. Ah yes, sales - all the salesmen want all the cars they sold going out on the same day, inspection, service, MOT etc - plus any problems sorted - "but I promised the customer they can have it tomorrow!". Meanwhile not content with this, Mercedes want me to attend a meeting to tell us new plans about training techniques coming - we are all getting a kind of sky box with a tellie to watch training vids during the day (fook knows how I'll find the time for that!). Sort out the problems of the day that people are having with customers cars while trade customers keep phoning asking for technical advise on problems that they have with Mercedes in their garage. Order parts, tools, oil etc for the workshop. Liase with MBUK on technical issues that we have. Update the diagnostic tools that keep messing about cos Merc brought out an update that fixed the last problems but introduced new ones.

 

6.01 - go home for a large drink!

 

Prob missed out loads but you get the idea!! :blink:

 

Has been a manic day today & was glad to get in!!

 

Still, there are good points:

 

At some point in the day will usually get to drive some nice motors!! :w00t:

Well my working "day" has just started.................

 

Off for a cup of tea as they are flying the sim until 23:30.

 

Then it's the weekly backups which will take an hour or so......

 

Then it's check the fault log to see what needs to be sorted.......generally niff, naff and trivia but occassionally an interesting fault that tests the old grey matter.:clap:

Then it's an hour or two of projector setup - colour balancing and brightness matching 18 (soon to be 36) projectors is almost a full time job in itself.

 

Then it'll be lunchtime @ 3am before a little recreational flying:thumbup1:

 

After that I'll have a bit of a surf until 5am when it'll be time to do a test flight and get the sim ready for the day's flying.

 

Shift finishes at 7am and then off home to bed to sleep until about 1pm.

 

 

 

Woohoo..............it's hometime for me now..:nana2:

Edited April 23, 201015 yr by Apache

Well Ive been in Mexico now for 3 weeks and i haven't done a thing.

My machine is stuck 88m underground (earthquake) and we cant get it out.

We want to get another from Germany (£10000) and dig it out later but the Mexicans:alucard: cant make a decision.

God its boring

Edited April 23, 201015 yr by stevemochan

like others, i dont really have a typical day. i work a 4on 4off shift so i never know what bloody day it is! its a nightshift so i start sometime in the evening and finish sometime in the morning and in between that start and finish time i endeavour to keep all you happy holiday makers happy... work ranges from routine maintenance, engine changes, skin repairs, composite repairs, zed repairs, zed homers, home homers. hangar work mainly on easyjet a319 fleet but line work on most airlines out of stansted.

well as i work for my self, its always different. but kinda revolves around me doing this

 

Up at 6:30am mainly due to the kids. check 300zx.co.uk

7am get um dressed and up, check 300zx.co.uk

8am check emails and messages on the phone, check 300zx.co.uk

9am usually around someones house sorting out a PC or collecting it for repairs / upgrades / trouble shooting / virus removal, check 300zx.co.uk

 

12pm check 300zx sneek to the car for a bit and see what needs doing if anything, check 300zx.co.uk

2pm get a phone call about a car that needs fixing, check 300zx.co.uk

3pm more work on someones computer, place orders for parts

4:30pm balance the books for the day, check bank, check 300zx.co.uk

 

Recently its been more phone calls about car problems from people, so im toying with the idea of becoming a mobile mechanic and getting a van and some decent tools sorted out.

 

Problem is, the work isn't always there with computers. it was before the recession hit, but now its temperamental, so need something else as well to help bring in the cash.

7.30am - quick shower, iron a shirt and get suited and booted

7.55am - jump in the car and start my commute from hell for 50 minutes past leicester on the M1 to lutterworth

8.45am - Get a cuppa in and start reading through 50+ emails i usually come in to

9.00am - 12pm - Start working through either a load of updates for the main site, updates for the 5 divisional sites or create new websites for the counsellors we have as members with the occasional tea run thrown in for good measure

12-1pm - most important hour of the day LUNCH!

1pm - 5pm - Carry on with projects/emails/updates/bug hunting etc

 

Can't wait till next week, we have the final selection of applicants for the web designer role which will mean i can drop all the web design work and just work on dev/database stuff which is what i'm here for really - lots of exciting projects to work through after that :hyper:

well as i work for my self, its always different. but kinda revolves around me doing this

 

Up at 6:30am mainly due to the kids. check 300zx.co.uk

7am get um dressed and up, check 300zx.co.uk

8am check emails and messages on the phone, check 300zx.co.uk

9am usually around someones house sorting out a PC or collecting it for repairs / upgrades / trouble shooting / virus removal, check 300zx.co.uk

 

12pm check 300zx sneek to the car for a bit and see what needs doing if anything, check 300zx.co.uk

2pm get a phone call about a car that needs fixing, check 300zx.co.uk

3pm more work on someones computer, place orders for parts

4:30pm balance the books for the day, check bank, check 300zx.co.uk

 

Recently its been more phone calls about car problems from people, so im toying with the idea of becoming a mobile mechanic and getting a van and some decent tools sorted out.

 

Problem is, the work isn't always there with computers. it was before the recession hit, but now its temperamental, so need something else as well to help bring in the cash.

 

bloody hell... that means between the hours of 4:30pm and 6:30am you dont check 300zx.co.uk... how do you manage?