Originally Posted by
peachfront
Hello. It's an airplane, not your office. If you can't ever turn it off, I think you need to get professional help. If you're that important, you would be on a private jet. And you're so not that important. Yes, that means all of us.
We have time to post on the internet and screw around on a message board. Stop pretending that there is never a minute of the day, even on an airplane, when you're too important to relax.
If you have long legs or you're otherwise a POS, buy a first class ticket. If you are pretending to work thinking that you're impressing anyone, just please stop. I have never seen any serious work done on the computer of any of my seatmates. It was always stuff that it wouldn't matter if it was done or not, like drying dishes. Hello, the dishes will dry whether you do it or not. Same for those pie charts. It really doesn't matter whether you look at them or not on the airplane. If you look at them on the ground, you'll look at them FASTER. You save no time doing that stuff in the air, and you impress no one, except in a negative way.
Sleeping serves a purpose. "Working" on an airplane serves no purpose. You're only kidding yourself, and if you realized what you looked like to those around you, you'd feel pretty foolish.
I am self employed and as such am on billable time when working on an airplane. The time I spend working on the plane is time I do not spend working at home. I can play golf, take my wife out, talk with the kids. If I waited until I was at home I would miss out on those pleasures.
I do not complain about recliners. I just bought a computer with a smaller screen that does not get pinched. I get to work, they get to rest. It is a symbiotic relationship. I even try to not type too hard.
I slept at the hotel.
And to those around me, if they think I am a fool for working, then they are allowed their thoughts.
And BTW I am a POS, and I buy two seats. I even use both tray tables, one for my mouse pad and mouse. I will share it with you if you ask. Nicely.