What Do You Do When You're Bored At Work?

[Lorena]

Most days of the week, I have absolutely nothing to do at work. The projects I get assigned can be finished in like an hour, maybe less. I have no internet access (at the moment).

Any ideas? Thanks

[Samdari]

Uhhh - come here?

[Blackadar]

If you have no internet access at the moment, how are you posting? :D

[finketr]

come here or hattrick or yahoo/google mail...

wikipedia is a good place to get lost in

[albionmoonlight]

Most days of the week, I have absolutely nothing to do at work. The projects I get assigned can be finished in like an hour, maybe less. I have no internet access (at the moment).

Any ideas? Thanks
Bring a book to work?

[gottimd]

While you have no access, take nude photos of yourself, and then when access comes back, post them.

[Raiders Army]

Print out Sudoku puzzles and do them at work.

[Lorena]

Uhhh - come here?

I'd love to, but I don't have internet access. I'm currently at home.

[Honolulu_Blue]

I had a job like that back in 1996/97. I was a temp at a no-longer-in-exsitence department store (Jacobson) for 9 months. I was in charge of "in-store signage." A painfully dull job, where I used Correl draw to make black and white signs that usually said nothing more than "Shirts $10". I designed templates for the limited universe of signs and could pretty much finish my day's work in like 1.5 hours or so.

There was no internet access.

I read a lot of books. I played a lot of computer solitaire, but hat grew old. I brought some games to install on the PC (a chess program and the like). I wrote out e-mails to people that I would save on a floppy disk and then send out when I got home. I was involved in a play-by-email campaign and I wrote out turns, saved them to a disk, and e-mailed them from home. I slept.

[Butter]

I am lucky enough to have an office, and am not closely monitored, so I have FM 2005 here at work, and play it here exclusively. Also some internet poker now and then.

[JasonC23]

I contact companies that employ other FOFC posters and rat them out.

[Eaglesfan27]

I either took my laptop and played FM 05 when things were slow (days with plenty of no-shows or a light schedule) or I took a good book to read.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I'm in pretty much the same position right now, except I do have internet access. I would play some online games like backgammon or Scrabble, but I never know when I'm going to have to get up and go meet with somebody, so I can't play a game in which people are waiting on me. Also, I'm just a temp here, so there's not much point in installing games because I'll have to make sure that I clean everything out when my assignment ends, which could be anytime from tomorrow until I-don't-know-when.

So, yeah, I pretty much just sit here and scratch.

[Raiders Army]

Sometimes I use a laser pointer and spin the dot around the clock on my wall clockwise, attempting to simulate Superman spinning around the Earth, so that time speeds up and I can get home.

[JeeberD]

I eat breadsticks.

[pennywisesb]

I contact companies that employ other FOFC posters and rat them out.

LMAO. Brilliant.

[KevinNU7]

Sometimes I use a laser pointer and spin the dot around the clock on my wall clockwise, attempting to simulate Superman spinning around the Earth, so that time speeds up and I can get home.
GOLD

[timmae]

look for a new job in the classifieds...

[cuervo72]

I eat breadsticks.

And tempt waitresses with your ass, from what we've been told.

[sooner333]

I'm in the same position, except with internet access. I get bored on the internet after awhile anyway. Of course, the tennis shop has cable TV as well. Sometimes I bring my laptop and play TCY or Tiger Woods Golf '04. A long time ago (in my first stint in the job) I brought my Xbox and would play NCAA in a position where I could see if people were walking up to the shop so I would just pause and turn off the TV before they came in. I don't really feel the need to do that anymore though, since they got cable.

[JeeberD]

And tempt waitresses with your ass, from what we've been told.

Well yes, that's a given...

[Glengoyne]

Masticate very slowly.
When I go slow, I usually lose interest. So I really need to keep up the pace.


Oh you said masticate!