And my boss is not around for the second day in a row...which means I get to do nothing because his email response is 'out of office.' So the question is how can I be more productive at work? Do they really want me to work on something other than the assigned task. Something about 'you have no set schedule' makes me feel that I really should just enjoy...my office? which is eerily similar to Hilden/Haan...
I certainly cannot control the timeframes for the intranet web launch, so I will need to think.
But in the meantime, I have always wondered what the people do here at work that could occupy their time for 8+ hours each day. Many of them, at least the two people in the office across from my own are often staring out the window. They too are in a state of wonderment (i.e. how can I work more?) or in a state of contentment (i.e. welcome to the good life aka no work!). It could be that Europeans apply the whole 'enjoy life' attitude toward work, but in Germany? the land of ultra efficient robot workers? That may be a misconception, but somewhere along in the easy going lifestyle comes the worlds 3rd or 4th largest economy. Or perhaps its just the marketing department, having their budgets slashed due to the economic downturn. Whatever the case, my lack of recent productivity has certainly got me thinking a little and lazy a lot!
But the best part about the marketing department is, how truly difficult can work be if all that must be done is communicating with various people and working on presentations? Of course, I am not working in true marketing, but it does seem like a great job to have!
cliff notes: boredom strikes, it got me thinking, marketing could be the good life
