I also draw cartoons about the boss, but we don't talk about those...
I also draw cartoons about the boss, but we don't talk about those...
That made me smile
I get a lot of songs stuck in my head. "Mia-Ia-Hii, Mi-Ia-Hoo, Mi-Ia-Haa, Mi-Ia-Ha-Ha!"
you have at least 100 hours there if you are picky, many more if you aren't. It is even separated by genre and gives you a few different warnings if it isn't work safe.
I'm at work right now, and it is incredibly slow today. I am really bored. I have already checked out the websites I look at, and now I don't know what to do to pass the time for two hours. What do you guys and girls do to pass time when your bored at work?
Work? With all the socializing, movies to watch, websites to frequent and forums to post on who has time to work? :D
I read up on current politics. That'll normally depress me enough that work seems positively fun in comparison.
too true, too true. I'd have ten bunkers by now if I had the money for one.It occurs to me as I type this how awfully dorky that sounds. When I get bored I organize stuff! Bleh. Oh well. It's why I get the raise every quarter.
Presently at my work station on an otherwise slow saturday at the museum. All the invoices are done, tours lined up, sales tendered, calls answered, and bla bla bla. A monkey coudl do my job really.
And kind of is.So, nothing like getting paid to f-off on the net in my downtime here which is extensive (there will be spikes of intense activity and stress, then long doldrums of inactivity and boredom)....so, here we are.
Recommendations (or what I do):
-Coffee, and lots of it. Coke in a pinch, periodic smoke break, chew gum. Something, any physical activity to help you remember you're still alive.
-Get out of chair & stretch alot. Getting some sciatic weirdness going on.
-No video media apart from this or audio. Namely my terminal has no speakers. So, mostly text and lots of it.
-WotC forums do the trick nicely. Yahoo headline news, my bank account, MySpace/Live Journal, etc. Wait, I'll just put some favorites up.
allmusic.com
amazon
deviantart.com
http://www.loc.gov/index.html (library of congress) Word of advice, there is a world of difference between Whitehouse.com and Whitehouse.gov :embarrass
http://www.ew.com/ew (entertainment weekly)
Paizo.com
YouTube
The Onion.com
etc. etc.
-Pen & inks, sketch museum patrons game related stuff, write, etc.
-Work on campaign notes and secret govt. documents
-e-mail g/f, bro, other family
-Monitor the EMT/police scanner (better than TV sometimes)
-Volunteer to get lunch for everyone, actually work ahead of projects, etc.
1 ton ghost- I agree on the police scanner 100%. There's a house across the street that used to have drug activity going on. We called enough times and eventually got the police to send some manpower our way. The place is quiet now, but we got front row seats with scanner action for four drug raids and 1 homicide. Now we have to listen to everyone else's neighborhoods getting car chases, etc.
Wow, your job sounds about as exciting as mine. I'm currently employed to supervise student workers*. Their job is to make sure the front desk doesn't run away. All of us get to waste time online a lot.
Rarely they get work (someone coming to the desk needing something, shelving books) and even more rarely I get work (both student workers are away from the desk, something comes up that they can't or don't know how to deal with.) The actual paperwork I have to do takes maybe three or four hours a week.
*We all work at a college campus library.
1 ton ghost- I agree on the police scanner 100%. There's a house across the street that used to have drug activity going on. We called enough times and eventually got the police to send some manpower our way. The place is quiet now, but we got front row seats with scanner action for four drug raids and 1 homicide. Now we have to listen to everyone else's neighborhoods getting car chases, etc.
I know, I know...scanner is super nice.
Our's is like some $5k handheld walkie that we usually leave at the front desk (admissions/reception) and I set it typically to scan all freq's. Breaks up monotony of downtime and has aided police/fire on occasion.
A nice deterant too once in a while; if I have to stay late for a soirre, board of trustees meeting, etc., occaisional late night derelict/crackhead show. They come into the foyer pre-security door (thank God) usually looking for a handout (always $, never food...nevermind this is a non-profit museum...wtf?) or casing me/the building and I'll just point to the walkie/scanner as if to say, "Go away or others will come to make you go away and probably arrest you for possession and criminal tresspass." Better than 911 any day of the week. Most metro call centers are a joke.
Still, when it's just "On" (day to day), its normally just "someone is stroking out", "car accident x-y", "kitchen fire z", stuff like that. But occaisionally you hear some truly bizarre stuff; odd ball suicide attempts, naked guy running into city hall, ultra-violent domestic dispute, etc. We usually hear about 150-180 incident reports in the metro per day, and I find myself becoming further desenitized to them given my length of employment and affiliation w/ fire ftrs, 1st responders, etc. Feel kinda' bad about that too.
EscherEnigma: Wow, your job sounds about as exciting as mine.
I'm not even sure after 4 years what my official job description is.
Normally, I just cover the front desk, "receptions/admissions"; schedule tours, room rental contracts, inventory, answer odd historical questions & museum donations (antiquity, fire regalia, etc), light clerical really. Other times, I give guided tours, help design and set up exhibits, compile info & documentation in the archives.We have a skeleton crew staff & some volunteers here and there and we're all cross-trained a little bit, but I find myself constantly doing pretty much everything, damage control, or the "glue" to this 102 yr old building.
But I have no illusions about "it", I'm low man on the totem poll, don't make dick ($), no real benefits, but I'm kind of indentured to these people, particularly the director of the museum.
Still, there's alot of downtime (like now, right?) that affords me the luxury of doing independent contract stuff (illustration mostly) that occaisionally makes me money on the side, get on the forums, read alot, etc. Keeps me sane (I think).
I'm currently employed to supervise student workers*. Their job is to make sure the front desk doesn't run away. All of us get to waste time online a lot.
Nice. Reminds me of my old work study in college. I loved it though; gettin' paid to do homework & get on the net. Classic. Enjoy it while you can. Still, there are CEO's that f-off on the computers playing Warcraft. It's just they make 6 figures...
Rarely they get work (someone coming to the desk needing something, shelving books) and even more rarely I get work (both student workers are away from the desk, something comes up that they can't or don't know how to deal with.) The actual paperwork I have to do takes maybe three or four hours a week.
Ditto. Once I knock out the weekly schedule of events, call people, do my Excel, Word, and inventory routine, I'm done w/ the "real work" in 3 hrs tops. The rest is just "troubleshooting"; answering the phone, digging up weird factoids/historical bits for enthusiasts, tendering sales & helping patrons. Not really where I saw myself back when, but I'm happy to have a job and should be grateful I suppose.
That sounds like a story I heard a few years back. Except instead of wrestling police the guy* said he wrestled a duck. And I think he said LSD instead of meth. But still... best anti-drug story I ever heard.
*It was being told by the guy that had done this.
What do you…do to pass time when your bored at work?
Surf these forums.
Then I had eight hours overnight to clean and maintain a health club. The job took me about three hours, then I'd work out, take a shower, relax in the hot tub, then head to the snack bar where I'd have my gaming stuff laid out. It's great having the building all to yourself.
Remind me to hate you one of these days...
The closest I've come to "free time" on a job was working at the Sears Warehouse back in high school. At least...eh... every other day or so, if I remember right, I'd spend a large portion of my day aimlessly pushing a broom around the aisles, moving the dirt from one area to another while my mind wandered.
I couldn't physically stop and screw around, but having sort of a half-ass part-time photographic memory I got alot of mental work done since I had pretty much the entire contents of the DMG and PHB stored in my head at the time.