Always on: The social ethic behind white collar labour

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Always on The social ethic behind white collar
labour
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• The big problem with that is obviously Im always
  coming in after hours, so theres no tech support
  at all. The mini disc in this studio doesnt
  work, so I have to try and crack into the next I
  run on mini disc, because that was the equipment
  supplied to me when I started my employment.

And the mini disc in this studio doesnt work, so
I have to try and use the set up in the next room
to upload the mini disc and then come back in
here to do the editing. Although sometimes that
studio is locked because somebodys been using it
and then its locked onto their user name and I
cant unlock it without putting in their user
name. Yeah.
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• It was like I didnt know how to do shit and I
  knew I didnt know how to do shit but I was very
  passionate about the job. But I didnt know like
  technical stuff and I didnt know how to do it
  but no one was there to really support you or
  help you or teach you. It was like well, this is
  what you do and you figure out to do it.

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• we tend to eat our lunch at our desk, and
  thats when Ill do a lot of that recreational
  internetting

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Theres a culture in here of eating at our
desks so you go and warm something up in the
microwave, and then come back and eat at your
desk, which I dont like.
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I try and keep it to the one pane otherwise I
start to get stressed out.
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• I do get a pang of sadness when both my
  partner and I are home and hes on his laptop
  and Im on my computer, I just have no idea why
  that would be the case that we would be both
  using the computer and be both in the home
  because, I dont know, we dont get to see each
  other very much and I dont understand why wed
  both need to be working at the same time.

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• You become consumed by spending 12 hours a day
  on the Internet and you study and work when you
  probably should be like talking to your family or
  something. But I spend sort of my normal day
  is get up and turn the computer on before I eat
  and late at night, because its like right here,
  well spend all that time on the computer or
  maybe you should go outside and exercise or
  something I spend the best part of the day, most
  part of the day, online. Like either studying or
  like emailing or Facebook.