<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM, scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@sboss.net">scott@sboss.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div class="im">Larry Johnson wrote:<br>
> 1) try to keep it to off work hours and<br>
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</div>we would have to define "work hours". Mine right now are 2am->11am.<br>
Some weeks it is noon->9pm, or 8pm->6am, or sometimes 7am-4pm/8am-5pm.<br>
And I know I am not the only one that doesnt work 8-5.<br>
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> 2) if you don't obey rule number 1 at least keep it to no more than normal water fountain sports conversation<br>
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</div>I am not sure what "normal water fountain sports conversation" is.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Two things . My hours are currently weird also. The "work hours" referred to the time the person was officially scheduled to work. So if the entire crew was scheduled to work from 8 to 6, 4 would be a work hour. 7 would not.<br>
<br>As for the "water fountain" it's a euphemism for people gathering in the hallway and and discussing the outcome of a sports event. I've worked in half a dozen different industries over the past 42 years of my worklife, and in every workplace in every one of those industries some percentage of time was spent bantering about nonsense (sports is just the most common).<br>
<br>Larry<br></div></div>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br>