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How do you pass time during work?

sunzt

Diamond Member
Nov 27, 2003
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This week and next week are gonna be reallllll slow here. What do you guys do in the absence of work at work?
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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I see 7 years and 1000 posts for you.

look at me, and you'll have your answer.

:D
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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1,862
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Whatever you do, do not go to any online forums, they will make the passage of time appear even slower than when you doing nothing at all!
 

ShawnD1

Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Surf AT. Anything worth reading is blocked here. Gotta love corporate Amerika.

Do they ever figure out that this lowers morale a great deal? Like there's no work to do at the moment and cracked.com is blocked... .... good time to sneak out and have a 3 hour lunch :hmm:

At one job, I literally slept in the broom closet. There's no work, everything is blocked, I can't leave because the card readers are tracking me entering/leaving, so the only place left is the broom closet.
 

Saint Nick

Lifer
Jan 21, 2005
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Do they ever figure out that this lowers morale a great deal? Like there's no work to do at the moment and cracked.com is blocked... .... good time to sneak out and have a 3 hour lunch :hmm:

At one job, I literally slept in the broom closet. There's no work, everything is blocked, I can't leave because the card readers are tracking me entering/leaving, so the only place left is the broom closet.

I am going to eventually set up a remote connection to my home PC. Won't be able to watch YouTube, but at least I'll be able to get on all websites.

Uh, I work. On work stuff. :confused:
You're doing it wrong.
 

ShawnD1

Lifer
May 24, 2003
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This.
It doesn't matter what you do, there's always "busy work" that needs doing.
I was once told to read instruction manuals for chemical analysis equipment we didn't even have. It's nice to know things, but come on. I might as well be memorizing the bus schedule at this point. If there's nothing to do for the next 20 minutes, let me take a 20 minute nap and wake me up when you have that sample for me. Those corporate fucks running the show don't seem to understand that making me bored then asking me to do work greatly increases the chance of making simple mistakes due to boredom.
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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surf forums (primarily AT and the World of Warcraft forums), read blogs, text with my friends.