Theoretically...if you worked from 8:30 - 5:00? And there was something to be done one day, that needed to be done between 8:00 and 5:00? Would you go do it at 8:00 if your boss was out of town, and then leave half an hour early that day?

Theoretically, if you had something to be done one day that involved an hour-long drive, instead of your usual 20-30 minute commute, would you do the driving on your time or the office's time?

These are the kinds of things I never used to consider before I worked for someone who monitors my every breath and constantly suspects me of lying about the work I'm doing. I find that, if closely watched, I'm reluctant to do business tasks during my personal time. I don't drop off business bank deposits on my way home any more and I don't use my lunch hour to go to the post office or the office supply store.

Brooding.... I've already lost fifteen minutes today and it's not even 10. I can't account for what I was working on. I have now officially wasted six minutes trying to figure out what I was doing during those fifteen minutes. (Which just goes to prove that timecards are bad for productivity.)

(And I've wasted five minutes blogging about it, which might just prove that someone should be keeping an eye on my productivity.)

Today's tasks include transcription, a thing I loathe, and bookkeeping, a thing that bores me and that I'm bad at. Also, researching the cost of buying more of a custom-made product that no one here seems to remember where they bought in the first place, as well as the whereabouts of a small gadget they can't quite describe and that might not actually be in the office any more.

At the moment, the idea of doing the bookkeeping bores me fractionally less than the rest of the list.