a vote about working efficiency
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Depends how I feel in the morning...
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If by "morning" you mean the time between midnight and sunrise, yes.
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Depends on the person. I am a much more efficient coder at 1:00AM than any time during the day.
John
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If by "morning" you mean the time between midnight and sunrise, yes.
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blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistExactly the same for me. Only thing is I work 10:00AM to 7:00PM or so.
John
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I don't think I differ much through the day. If I have to work to midnight, the last few hours definately don't get much done, but otherwise....
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Define morning. :) Sometimes I'll rise at 4am and get two days worth of work done by 9am, before the yahoos get in.
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
You can get into your office at 4am? I start early and finish early (at the office), I wish I could work from home again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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You can get into your office at 4am? I start early and finish early (at the office), I wish I could work from home again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Cake. Get up. Walk downstairs. Put coffee in cup, microwave 60 seconds. Go to bathroom. Get back to microwave before #$%$^%#$ beeper goes off. Walk 10 feet. Boot computer. Oh yes, I can get to "the office" at 4am. Well, 415....
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
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Mornings, although there tends to be more interruptions. But I get my second wind around 10pm and have to force myself to stop or I can really keep going into until daybreak. Then again, I work from my home right now.
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Cake. Get up. Walk downstairs. Put coffee in cup, microwave 60 seconds. Go to bathroom. Get back to microwave before #$%$^%#$ beeper goes off. Walk 10 feet. Boot computer. Oh yes, I can get to "the office" at 4am. Well, 415....
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
:sigh: I remember, one of the best contracts I ever had was with AMP (Sydney) in 2000, as an olympic sponsor they had a policy to work from home, bliss, I never even had a desk in the office, just a hot machine. PM used to arrange meetings at 3pm on Fridays - at my place.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I couldn't disagree more. People's metabolisms vary widely, and it's not something you can change by corporate policy. I function at my peak between 2PM and 9PM, and I always have. My company starts work at 7AM and quits at 4PM. Over the past three years I've learned to wake up in time (5AM) to get to work, but I can't function until about 9 or so. Neither can anyone else. That means I take a lot of work home, because it just isn't physically or mentally possible to do it during working hours. And I'm not the only one. An electrical utility, our company has office staff (me, the accountant, the customer service lady, the meter guy, and the boss), and outside staff (linemen). The linemen start at 5AM in Summer to avoid the peak heat of the day, which can easily exceed 120°F, and quit by 1PM. They arrive on time, but get nothing done until 7AM, and usually want to quit by 11AM. In the office, we arrive at 7AM, but can get nothing done until 9AM because no other company we deal with opens until then. That's just as well, because none of us is in any mood to work until then, anyway. Most of our morning time is spent doing brainless administrative stuff that does little to accomplish our goals. We all tend to arrive with a plan in mind for the day, but until 9 or 10 we can't remember what the plan was. By then the boss shows up, and his priorities have changed overnight, so anything we'd planned on doing is out the window. In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullshit, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I couldn't disagree more. People's metabolisms vary widely, and it's not something you can change by corporate policy. I function at my peak between 2PM and 9PM, and I always have. My company starts work at 7AM and quits at 4PM. Over the past three years I've learned to wake up in time (5AM) to get to work, but I can't function until about 9 or so. Neither can anyone else. That means I take a lot of work home, because it just isn't physically or mentally possible to do it during working hours. And I'm not the only one. An electrical utility, our company has office staff (me, the accountant, the customer service lady, the meter guy, and the boss), and outside staff (linemen). The linemen start at 5AM in Summer to avoid the peak heat of the day, which can easily exceed 120°F, and quit by 1PM. They arrive on time, but get nothing done until 7AM, and usually want to quit by 11AM. In the office, we arrive at 7AM, but can get nothing done until 9AM because no other company we deal with opens until then. That's just as well, because none of us is in any mood to work until then, anyway. Most of our morning time is spent doing brainless administrative stuff that does little to accomplish our goals. We all tend to arrive with a plan in mind for the day, but until 9 or 10 we can't remember what the plan was. By then the boss shows up, and his priorities have changed overnight, so anything we'd planned on doing is out the window. In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullshit, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullsh*t, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
Nice poetry! :laugh:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Roger Wright wrote:
In summary, any claim that mornings are more productive is corporate bullsh*t, promulgated by idiots who wake up early because they have nothing better to do with their useless, empty lives.
Nice poetry! :laugh:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
Thanks, Lloyd (my dad's name, btw). But I'd always thought that poetry was composed of dreams of how the world should be, and prose of the vision of the way the world really is. I think my description belongs in the prose category - but I'm no expert... :)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Thanks, Lloyd (my dad's name, btw). But I'd always thought that poetry was composed of dreams of how the world should be, and prose of the vision of the way the world really is. I think my description belongs in the prose category - but I'm no expert... :)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Very good name! I'm not sure the world is just like that, but I always find the curmudgeon attitude quite funny! :cool:
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Last couple of hours before sleeping is most efficient for me I think... not sure if it's the realisation that the day really *is* running out, or that may brain's too tired to accomodate any other thoughts except the job at hand. :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Depends how I feel in the morning...
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
I agree, and it usually depends on how good the coffee was :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I find it better after a couple :beer:s.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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If you define "morning" as "period of the day where most people are still at sleep, or at least out of office"... Yes. On the other hand, it's not unnormal with a slight performance peek in the late friday afternoons :laugh: Cheers /Jonas