[SEETHING]

I can never decide whether I enjoy doing nothing at work or not. On the one hand, getting paid a decent day's wage for browsing P&B and playing Words With Friends is pretty sweet. On the other, time definitely drags more when you're effectively just waiting until you can reasonably justify heading home.

I have literally gone and hidden in a cupboard on a couple of occasions in order to avoid being asked to do stuff - it was pretty shameful, but I'd like to think that the ends justified the means.


Do you enjoy actually doing work while at work, or are you a fan of strategic, hour-long retreats to the toilet?

[Ross.]

Nothing better than spending company time doing a shite. Enormous sense of satisfaction every time.

I do find doing nothing is a bit of a bore after a while. The job I do is based on covering the US stockmarket opening hours, but the company need to have folk covering the UK client base, so our shift pattern means spending a few days covering 8am to 4:30pm approx, but doing absolutely f**k all between 8am to 1pm-ish, with the occasional call to the wrong number being put through. Get's pretty desperate when there is no admin work from the previous night. On the plus side, i'm studying towards some additional work related certification, so I get plenty of time to do that, instead of using up my free time.

[kiwififer]

HSBC by any chance?

[Mak]

I reckon that a good 10,000 of my P&b posts were made on company time during my office days.

[Ross.]

kiwififer, on 01 February 2012 - 16:05, said:

HSBC by any chance?

Not guilty! And even if it was, I wouldn't admit to it, just in case my boss starts using P&B....

[GordieBoy80]

They probably work in call centres...

[LinkinFighter]

GordieBoy80, on 01 February 2012 - 16:38, said:

They probably work in call centres...

Another thread Law Stud could have had a field day in.

Gone but not forgotten Stuart

[Mozzamozza]

Work is the only time I get time to browse P&B.

Especially the NSFW section, ironically.

[Bert Raccoon]

I spend a good few hours a day browsing the internet on my phone at work. I feel cheated when they expect me to actually do some work, the swines!

[ScottR96]

I'm still at school but I do find getting on with the work is a lot easier than trying to talk to your mates when the teacher isn't looking. Time flies by so quickly when you do the work as well - nothing worse than sitting in double maths watching the clock. It drags in!

[Hedgecutter]

A year ago I went about 2 months of having nothing to do and the company I was working at was paying my lot a few hundred pounds a day for it. Longest working weeks ever with a massive sense of guilt.

Basically I'd done some pretty valuable work for them over a 6 month contract but the work line to me dried up when they had a data quality problem they took ages to sort. If they let me go then I'd have been sent to the company I'm in just now and the last 6 months on a day rate would have been a total waste of time if I never finished it off, hence why they kept me on doing nothing.

This post has been edited by Hedgecutter: 01 February 2012 - 21:43

[archie guevara]

I think I've told this story before, but my father in law was sent to Korea in the late 40s. He travelled on a troop ship from Southampton through the Suez canal, with various stops along the way. In the whole voyage he did nothing, simply by refining a technique of carrying something wherever he went, usually just a clipboard. Because he was a doctor, he was a major and as a result, fairly senior, so no one challenged him. It's one of his proudest achievements.

[ICTChris]

My mate once spent several months doing nothing in my old work. He was good at coding and writing VBA reports and every time a manager came near him he opened a spreadsheet. No questions asked, two months non-work done.

[C. Muir]

Nothing better than waiting till your breaks over before dropping a steaming hot turd in the staff toilet while browsing facebook and p&b.

[Jimmy85]

I'm outstanding at skiving. Probably the thing I'm best at in the world.

[Hedgecutter]

C. Muir, on 01 February 2012 - 23:41, said:

Nothing better than waiting till your breaks over before dropping a steaming hot turd in the staff toilet while browsing facebook and p&b.

Unfortunately I can't get mobile reception in our work bog seeing as it's inside a big granite block. I just see this as justification to use the work internet instead though.

At least the Top Tips thread taught me to take a dump at work seeing as you save money on bog-roll while getting paid for it at the same time.

[dave258]

I'll have no idea what to do with myself if my internet access ever gets rescinded at work. I've even been known to take trips to the Aberdeen office for no particular reason other than to get out of half a day's work.

[itzdrk]

only ever had one job where i had free access to the internet

the rest of them i had access to the msn news website but the sport section was blocked

so my phone was the hero , either that or talking to colleagues if i was really really bored

[Tryfield]

SEETHING, on 01 February 2012 - 15:51, said:

Do you enjoy actually doing work while at work

I love my work/job. I thoroughly enjoy doing a shift then having some relaxation time and a cupla pints.

I was working out the other day there that between day 1 of this financial tax year and day 365(or is it 366[leap year]) that I'll have had 137 days off without taking a day off sick.

Smashing amount of time off.


I wouldn't like to work Mon - Fri 8 - 4 or Mon - Fri 9 - 5.

[uni]

Well I serve the public so if there's people needing serving I have to work but when I'm returning items to the shelves or to damages it's rather good to slowly stroll around the shop floor or in the back.

[the jambo-rocker]

Most of my posts have certainly been on work time.

About two years ago, its was 20 minutes shites three times a day, morning and afternoon breaks for half an hour, and an hour long lunch. Then the fag breaks would add at least another hour. The rest of the time was spent surfing on here.


I miss being an apprentice

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child]

My company recently upgraded their firewalls and online security, and strangely enough I can now get on P&B in the office after about a year of not being able to.

Productivity has gone down the pan

[Lambie's Pigeon Feed]

Smoking is good for a skive, worry about death later.

I told my director "I quite fancy going to" a 1 hour development seminar in London yesterday, I could have video conferenced, I could have had the info emailed to me or I could have simply phoned the woman doing it and asked her a couple of questions. Instead I spent all day reading a book in a coffee shop pre noon meeting and pub post meeting. Full days pay plus expenses and due to an earlier flight than I needed to be on about enough for a days flexi time added into the mix. Top skive.

[capybara]

My Regional Manager is here today,so i am as jumpy as a box of frogs.

This post has been edited by capybara: 02 February 2012 - 11:24

[SEETHING]

Middle-management are fucking arseholes, always.

I worked for bookies all through Uni - the surprise appearance of an "Area Manager" was always a low point, usually because I was fucking about at the time.