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A Study On Time Wasted At Work
Animesh Pathak writes "C|Net News has an article about a survey of people's goofing off habits at work. From the article: 'It's interesting to note that the Internet was cited as the leading time-wasting activity. It goes to show how integrated it has become to the daily functions of our personal and professional lives,...Today, there are so many useful tools and Web sites on the Internet that have enabled people to become more efficient with accomplishing multiple tasks in a shorter amount of time.'"
I find this story deeply ironic. Only two hours until I can leave this place...
Area IV, here I am
Wasting time on the Internet at work...what...like reading Slashdot? The powers that be will never catch me doing such a thing...
Oh shit, here comes the boss....
+++ATH
NO CARRIER
"Lame" - Galaxar
All I need to do is just walk around the office.
And here I am, still at work, posting on Slashdot....
When you get to hell -- tell 'em Itchy sent ya!
Just who is the target audience for this? Whip-wielding managers who flay anyone not fast enough on Alt-Tab?
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
How much time do you waste at work reading Slashdot?
* 1hr/week
* 1hr/day
* 2hrs/day
* 3hrs/day
* I don't read slashdot you insensitive clod (then what are you doing selecting this one)
* CowboyNeal
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
"Good morning Mr Anderson, this is Smith from Surely Insurance, we're wondering if you're having a car accident today...."
Imagine Hugo Weaving speaking this to you over the phone as you drive home from work and give yourself a nice shiver.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
but I was too busy playing Internet Scrabble.
I would formulate a clever and insightful reply to your post, but I should really get back to work.
Starsucks
with my slashdot addiction.
Please, someone make me stop. It's taking up all my time. I've started writing songs about it, so when I lose my job and am out on the street I'll have something to sing while I panhandle.
This is a lot harder to kick than nicotene, crack, heroin, alcohol, meth, overeating, bulemia, and necrophilia were.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
sit down and sign in ASAP read email
read slashdot
read news
rews world of warcraft forums
talk to co workers
check slashdot for new articles
attempt to hope i can come up with a witty response to an article...
then.. do work?
ps
someone came up to me while i was typing this (im at work now) and read it. wonder what they thought of it. hehe.
Through a Web survey involving more than 10,000 employees, the report found that personal Internet surfing ranked as the top method of cooling one's heels at work.
Gee, most people on a web survey spend their personal time on the Internet. Thats like going to to a Red Sox game and surveying people on what their favorite sport is! I'll post again in a few, but for right now, I'm going to go to a strip club and survey people on womens' rights.
It's 'their', not 'they're'. You ignorant bafoon!
Just open up about 10 important sites on different tabs (in my case, PDF's of different Phys Rev or Nano Letters papers), open whatever you're surfing on the 11th tab, say arstechnica^H^H^Hslashdot. Boss comes by, just flick your mouse to the tab bar and quickly scroll the mouse wheel some. You have a 10/11 chance of landing on a work-related site. It's like playing Russian Roulette, sort of, except in the US. OTOH, in Soviet Russia, Russian Roulette plays...never mind.
You never know who else is wasting time at work: http://bash.org/?258908
It must be Windows. It needs half a gig of RAM and a hardware-accelerated graphics card just to run Solitaire.
It's 'their', not 'they're'. You ignorant bafoon[sic]!
The proper spelling is buffoon.
Have a nice day.
Thanks to the internet, we can now all die alone together! -SomeWoman
Could anyone post some links to effectively waste my time at work? I'm kind of getting bored of /., dilbert, thinkgeek, cnn, the onion, etc...
ChrisLMB : If any of my employees did that they'd be fired instantly.
Ben174 : Where u work?
ChrisLMB : I'm the CTO at LowerMyBills.com
*** Ben174 (BenWright@TeraPro33-41.LowerMyBills.com) Quit (Leaving)
http://www.bash.org/?258908/
I could be playing golf and working on my novel!
TFA says that work days are getting longer because people are wasting more time. That's a load of crap. I "waste" time because of the long hours. I'm not mentally capable of coding 100% 24/7. The reality is that there are a limited # of hours in the day that I can effectively develope in. If you tell me I have to be here, I'll just sit and read slashdot. If I could leave the office without management frowning on a less than 40 hour week then I could just do an 8-4 every day and I would not *have* to slack off.
Even more time is wasted on the Internet since Slashdot reposts every article doubling the wasted time online having to rereply to the article.
I can identify my boss's footsteps in a high traffic area at least 20 yards away to trigger an Alt-Tab.
I am reading this at work, I have not read the article, do they mention /. specifically?
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
When I saw Lord of the Rings, all I could think about was "Good morning, Mr. Frodo..."
Online Starcraft RPG? At
Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
Peter: Yeah.
Bob: Great.
Peter: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter: 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.
Slashdot, beyond the way the trolls word things, is a great place to find best-practices for the IT world.
Thank you, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.
SIERRA TANGO FOXTROT UNIFORM
Well, there went any chance of me finishing this thread...
"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence" - Vyvyan "The Young Ones"
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Baggins. As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Baggins. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Frodo Baggins, a wealthy and respected Hobbit of the Shire. In the other life, you go by the alias "Underhill" and travel throughout Eriador, causing trouble with Black Riders and frightening innocent villagers with this magical ring you possess. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I am going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Baggins. You are here because we need your help. We know that you have been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Strider. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by Gondorian authorities to be the most dangerous man in Middle-Earth. My fellow White Council members believe that I am wasting my time with you, but I believe that you wish to do the right thing.