Home from work...
Aug. 14th, 2007 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfyn...and mostly quite tired.
I have a definite feeling that I'm growing weary of this job. Every once in a while I'll still come across something shiney, but mostly it is just a long and slightly grinding process. I put photographs in folders. I take them out of folders and scan them. I put them back into folders. There's not a lot of engagement with the object, and it's all reminding me why I drifted away from archive work.
I'm also pondering two conversations I've had recently with people about my work conditions.
As an explanation, I work from 10 am to 5 pm. I have half an hour for lunch, and sometimes a 15 minute coffee break in the afternoon (although that didn't happen today). There is no internet access at all, and as I'm normally working in a pair (one person digging through boxes, another putting away, for example) I really do just work solidly for the entire time I'm there. My mobile is meant to be put away, as P&O like bags and personal possessions kept tucked away whilst we're working and we don't have our own desks.
It is a nice office - people are friendly, P&O provides its employees with a free lunch from Pret (normally a sandwich and a cake, and there's free fruit, juice, tea and coffee) and as I count as a casual worker, they are pretty relaxed about what hours I work (they just don't pay me if I'm not there) and me taking time off if I need it.
It's not traumatic, but there are days when I do feel a bit cut off from the world during my working day, and I can get a bit jealous of those people who get to bounce e mails at work, or browse LJ, or even who get ten minute patches of brain dead downtime during the day.
I was chatting with one of the girls at work, and she said she thought P&O was quite a cushy environment - no one sits on our shoulders much, we get a free lunch, and she's never had a job where she's been able to send e mail or take loads of breaks etc. A week or so ago I was chatting with a friend from school and she was mildly horrified at the idea of working like that, without real breaks and with only a half hour for lunch.
I was wondering. How does my job sound to you? What is your working life like?
I have a definite feeling that I'm growing weary of this job. Every once in a while I'll still come across something shiney, but mostly it is just a long and slightly grinding process. I put photographs in folders. I take them out of folders and scan them. I put them back into folders. There's not a lot of engagement with the object, and it's all reminding me why I drifted away from archive work.
I'm also pondering two conversations I've had recently with people about my work conditions.
As an explanation, I work from 10 am to 5 pm. I have half an hour for lunch, and sometimes a 15 minute coffee break in the afternoon (although that didn't happen today). There is no internet access at all, and as I'm normally working in a pair (one person digging through boxes, another putting away, for example) I really do just work solidly for the entire time I'm there. My mobile is meant to be put away, as P&O like bags and personal possessions kept tucked away whilst we're working and we don't have our own desks.
It is a nice office - people are friendly, P&O provides its employees with a free lunch from Pret (normally a sandwich and a cake, and there's free fruit, juice, tea and coffee) and as I count as a casual worker, they are pretty relaxed about what hours I work (they just don't pay me if I'm not there) and me taking time off if I need it.
It's not traumatic, but there are days when I do feel a bit cut off from the world during my working day, and I can get a bit jealous of those people who get to bounce e mails at work, or browse LJ, or even who get ten minute patches of brain dead downtime during the day.
I was chatting with one of the girls at work, and she said she thought P&O was quite a cushy environment - no one sits on our shoulders much, we get a free lunch, and she's never had a job where she's been able to send e mail or take loads of breaks etc. A week or so ago I was chatting with a friend from school and she was mildly horrified at the idea of working like that, without real breaks and with only a half hour for lunch.
I was wondering. How does my job sound to you? What is your working life like?
