Some of my best times with chess have been at work.
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I bet my boss will kick me out of the building if he find out that I am wasting time 
Than don't waste your time ,play Chess : )
paul211 wrote:
As a boss, I would give you so much to attend to that you would be running behind all of the time and have no time to play chess at work.
Additionnally I would check your progress twice a day on any given work assigned, and more I would ask you your projection of completion date and if you answered in 2 days I would say I would like it to see it completed by tomorrow afternoon.
I am giving you a break here as I had one boss that assigned me a 2 day jobs and did not ask but demanded to be ready first thing in the morning.
He even told me if I could not do it I would have to be replaced.
Guess what? I worked till 1 or 2 am was at work at 7am and sustained his tyrannical ruthless style of management. He was certainly good as he became president of Michelin in France.
But he did admit in leaving that no one was ever able to always meet his timelines but me, he said you cannot all that I ask for but I have a respect for you as you are the only one that did.
14 years later I became Plant Manager and had the best team in the world in achieving our common objectives as I mixed my experience with his A ..x type style of management, in other words blended the dictatorial style of management with a more humanitarian approach giving the opportunity to my dept. supervisors to have their input.
Now get to work, we pay you for your output and contribution.
YOU CAN KEEP YOUR " SO MUCH TO ATTEND TOO '' AND STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DONT SHINE !
How can you be civilized when you even can't spell to plebeian?
Mar 7, 2009
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paul211 wrote:
As a boss, I would give you so much to attend to that you would be running behind all of the time and have no time to play chess at work.
Additionnally I would check your progress twice a day on any given work assigned, and more I would ask you your projection of completion date and if you answered in 2 days I would say I would like it to see it completed by
I'm a software developer, in my field the amount of productive hours that is reasonably expected from a days worth of work is prob 4-5 at most. It doesn't matter if you're on task for 12 or 14 hours, the amount of quality productive work is going to be about 4-5 on average.
Employers who try to get more usually get subpar quality work. Fatigue is a factor, and like chess, you often have to take breaks and develop a fresh prospective on the problem. It's similar to how chess players often miss things the longer they've spent calculating a position, so the last candidate move is often the least well analyzed (or, rather, the analysis is of the lowest quality).
Every good software manager is aware of this, and as long as the employee is productive, it just doesn't matter. The terrible managers have beliefs similar to yours, and think productive work scales with the amount of time spent on the work. These same people often believe you can make a late project ship on time by just adding more developers to it, which is a known anti-pattern.
Fortunately, good developers can easily recognize poor managers, and avoid them. This is not to say people should spend their work time playing chess, but certainly when they need a break to be productive, they should take a break. Productivity is the desired end result, after all.
buster47 wrote:
How can you be civilized when you even can't spell to plebeian?
How is "spell to plebeian" correct grammar buster47. This is very ironic.
p.s. I've checked my post 5 times to make sure I don't fall into the same trap.
I am glad you find it ironic as the topic was meant to be ironic. 
I only play on my lunch break at work.
paul211 wrote:
buster47 wrote:
How can you be civilized when you even can't spell to plebeian?
You obviously have not studied latin at all, the translation in english is actually valid both ways, for references:
1.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plebian
2.http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plebian
3.http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plebian
In the Roman days there was no middle class ony the Patricians, the rich people , and the plebians, the lower or common class people.
Are you becoming more civilized or educated now?
No
that is so true
paul211 wrote:
buster47 wrote:
How can you be civilized when you even can't spell to plebeian?
You obviously have not studied latin at all, the translation in english is actually valid both ways, for references:
1.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plebian
2.http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plebian
3.http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plebian
In the Roman days there was no middle class ony the Patricians, the rich people , and the plebians, the lower or common class people.
Are you becoming more civilized or educated now?
i study latin
paul211 wrote:
EVANSTEINW21 wrote:
that is so true
Which post are you referring to?
the first post
Apr 13, 2009
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Hi Morons..
If you look to your right (ABC with check mark)= spell check it take a mire two seconds to click on...
I don't think your boss would mind now you would be learning how to spell
correctly...
Lots of chess players on this site play at work and there for becomes professionals as they get paid for it, I even suggest them to ask their bosses to sponsor their membership on chess.com as they for sure are proud of having professionals players in their company.