Good ways to kill time at the office?

ultimatebob

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I'm curious.... what do most ATOT'ers do in their spare time while at the office? I seem to spend a lot of time posting here while waiting for things to fix, along with posting on Facebook and Slashdot. I need a greater variety of time wasting options, though!

For example, I also used to play Ikariam, but I got bored with it. Oh... and Internet access is filtered, so no pr0n sites :)
 

ThePresence

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Lexulous

It's Scrabble, and you can play against the computer (robot) in practice mode.
Used to be Scrabulous before they got sued.
 

Turin39789

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create an annotated bibliography of resources useful to an English teacher teaching reflective writing. APA citation
 

Pardus

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I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. :)
 

sdifox

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Institute a change management policy and procedures. Guaranteed 40% productivity zap.
 

Specop 007

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I used to screw around a lot, I've decided to do something productive. I'm studying for my CCNA.

Maybe get your learn on if your bored?
 

MiniDoom

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Just stare at your desk, but make it looks like you're working. Do that for an hour after lunch too. Work just hard enough not to get fired.
 

PhoenixOrion

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Day trading, stocks research, moving around money from one account to another, etc.
(I don't work in the financials industry but sometimes I feel like I do with my own money)
 

Descartes

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Spare time?? LOL.

Well, I guess I am posting on ATOT, aren't I? So, AT, checking news, etc. Not much free time though.
 

ultimatebob

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Originally posted by: sdifox
Institute a change management policy and procedures. Guaranteed 40% productivity zap.

Nah... they already have one here. I spend about 20 minutes filing paperwork for every 15 minutes of actual work that I do... perhaps more if it's considered to be an "outage".
 

Injury

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http://club.live.com

Play stupid little games, earn actual prizes.

I've been playing it for a little over a month, just ordered Rock Band for absolutely free (shipping included!). Already have two other 360 games from it.
 

ultimatebob

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Originally posted by: Injury
http://club.live.com

Play stupid little games, earn actual prizes.

I've been playing it for a little over a month, just ordered Rock Band for absolutely free (shipping included!). Already have two other 360 games from it.

I used to do that, but it took forever to win anything. I had to play for about 4 hours just to get enough tickets to earn a song download... which I can't even play on my iPod because it's Windows Media DRM'ed. Lame!
 

Injury

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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: Injury
http://club.live.com

Play stupid little games, earn actual prizes.

I've been playing it for a little over a month, just ordered Rock Band for absolutely free (shipping included!). Already have two other 360 games from it.

I used to do that, but it took forever to win anything. I had to play for about 4 hours just to get enough tickets to earn a song download... which I can't even play on my iPod because it's Windows Media DRM'ed. Lame!

Then just get the answers from www.anagramssolved.com

I hit the max of 1000 tickets per day in about an hour of free time, if I get an hour.