Work rant...

[liljan98]

I know I'm a lazy person. And I know I sometimes spend an unusual amount of time doing personal stuff at work. But, and that's an important BUT, I don't ignore work that has to be done. Not on the professional level anyway. Talking about work for my postgraduate studies or work for local politics... totally different thing :-) There are some times

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[liljan98]

Good to know that I'm not the only one with these kind of work problems. I know being overworked and stressed is much worse, so I shouldn't complain about not "working", but it feels... bad in a way. I just don't understand how my colleague just don't see it the same way. Even remotely... He's making light when I'm fussing about deadlines and to-do-lists (yeah, well... *g*) and then he is surprised when the bosses get a little bit annoyed with our (his!) work attitude.

I really should use the time to polish up my hockey vocabulary :-)

[liljan98]

I might just do that, so be warned :-) But I guess I'll start with reading the hockey entry at the english wikipedia and try to remember all the english terms. The funny thing is, that sometimes the offical term in German is the same as in English, but no-one usually use the offical term.
"Zone" (attacking / defending)is also the offical term in Germany, but everybody just calls it "Drittel", which means "the third part" (of the rink), so it's "attacking / defending Drittel" BUT it's still always the neutral zone (and not drittel). The other day hai_di and I thought about what "Drittel" might be called in English, not thinking about the term "zone". :-)
And there are some other pecularities, like "taking a penalty". It's called "getting a penalty" in German, and it makes much more sense to me, because "taking" makes it sound so voluntarily. But no one wants to get into the box for two minutes...