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Doing your best
« on: March 02, 2008, 08:56:57 PM »
Why do so many people do such a shitty job.  I believe that doing your best is your duty but I find myself in the minority especially in contracting
Are other fields the same?
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2008, 09:09:10 PM »
well i try do do my best. and look where it got me? BAM  ssdi :orly:

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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2008, 09:10:45 PM »
I try my best because I work for myself and reputation is everything
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2008, 09:21:16 PM »
My best is never good enough, Sadly I don't have any special abilities to get very far.

And I don't know where to start, grr!

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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2008, 10:18:56 PM »
I don't have any special abilities either. Some work places want quantity not quality, they want you to work fast. This has been my downfall in the past. I work slower than other people because I want the job to be done right and for people to be happy with what I have done. Not everyone cares about this, though.
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2008, 10:34:12 PM »
I worked as a medical claims examiner for almost 20 years.  It almost killed me, because the job consisted of getting screamed at every single day by angry insureds, meeting production and quality standards that were just ridiculously hard, and putting up with psycho, back-stabbing co-workers...not to mention the guilt I felt from having to cut off people's medical benefits.  I'm horrible at "multi-tasking" (whatever that means), and my temper is pretty explosive.  So it was a hard road.  The last ten years I was there, they moved me to working on attorney complaints, because my temper came in handy dealing with those bastards. 

I haven't worked in 4 years.  I want to go back to work, but I have no idea what I'd do.  I was accepted into a masters in applied linguistics program, but I don't really want to go back to school.  I have little confidence in my cognitive and "people" skills at this point in my life.   :-\

As for as why people don't do their best...in my corporate environment, it didn't pay to do your best.  The harder you worked, the more they loaded on you, until you couldn't keep up and you'd find yourself demoted.  It finally caught up with my company - it always catches up with them.  But by that time, you're so burned out that the damage has been done.
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2008, 03:28:55 AM »
I start of doing my best and go downhill from there  :zoinks:

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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2008, 03:43:38 AM »
I don't have a job :'(
I've never done my best before in my life
I did better than other people though at uni, and got high marks, but I didn't do my best
I will when I go back though
If I had a job I would do my best, but only if I liked it
If I didn't, then fuck 'em

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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2008, 04:45:13 AM »
i do what i'm able. it's not much. :-\ it's the main part of the job but my mom has to do other parts because i can't deal with the confusing stuff like the spell and other checks and saving the file a million times and shit. i'd be afraid to fuck up too, i have such crappy memory. and then she has to email clients and shit and i don't want to do that.
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2008, 07:56:37 AM »
Most of the time I always put 110% in what I do, however if I am in a shitty mood or I am tired things sometimes get done half assed

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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2008, 08:00:27 AM »
Most of the time I always put 110% in what I do, however if I am in a shitty mood or I am tired things sometimes get done half assed

I can get like that too but the things and workmanship I have seen recently on the school I am working on is appalling and everybody says not my problem
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2008, 08:13:06 AM »
Yeah; I try to do my best at work/school.
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2008, 09:05:36 AM »
Most of the time I always put 110% in what I do, however if I am in a shitty mood or I am tired things sometimes get done half assed

I can get like that too but the things and workmanship I have seen recently on the school I am working on is appalling and everybody says not my problem

You need to put less effort into doing a good job and more effort into passing your cockups off as someone else's fault while taking credit for the work they've done.
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2008, 09:46:04 AM »
Most of the time I always put 110% in what I do, however if I am in a shitty mood or I am tired things sometimes get done half assed

I can get like that too but the things and workmanship I have seen recently on the school I am working on is appalling and everybody says not my problem

You need to put less effort into doing a good job and more effort into passing your cockups off as someone else's fault while taking credit for the work they've done.

That appears to be the American way these days :'(
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Re: Doing your best
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2016, 06:36:55 AM »
I take pride in doing a good job, even if I can't get it done as fast as 

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