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Down Time At Work — What Do You Do?
An anonymous reader writes "I work in IT and find fairly often that I have 'down time.' I'll usually browse the web (Slashdot) or try to find something informative or educating to read. Sometimes, I even get caught up working on my personal webpage or other project that isn't exactly work related. What does everyone else do during these times, and how much time do they spend on non-work related things while at work?"
...is a very serious sport.
"Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day... Teach someone to program, frustrate them for a lifetime."
What IT does with Downtime? You must be new here
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
I research things that will make my company perform better, or I educate myself so I can perform better for the company myself. Have fun working on that website while you're out of work ;)
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
A) Read Slashdot.
B) Submit stories to Slashdot.
C) Play video games stored on thumb drive.
D) Avoid getting more work.
Anything else?
I read and post on Slashdot, you dolt!
Enlightenment is a pipe dream. So where's the pipe?
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: If they only realized 90% of the overtime they pay me is only cause i like staying here playing with Kazaa when the bandwidth picks up after hours.
: If any of my employees did that they'd be fired instantly.
: Where u work?
: I'm the CTO at LowerMyBills.com
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I fold pizza boxes. Also, be sure to tip your pizza deliverer well.
I read Digg.
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(and wonder how moderators will interpret posts on
I do this.
That's right, I go take a three hour shit (at a minimum). I bring some reading material and I challenge myself to see how long I can stay in there before my I lose all feeling in my legs and have to leave.
It's better than surfing the web or doing personal stuff at your desk because you could never be fired for taking too long to shit; that would be discrimination.
What do you do with down time?
Down what?
Down time.
What time?
Down time.
What what?
Stupid sexy Flanders.
I'll just start doing whatever gets modded highest here.
what you and other's fail to realize is... ITSATRAP!
Collector's Edition
Until the coffemachine breaks. That means panic.
Other than that it is just slow response from the system.
"IT Satrap", sounds like something from a business card.
Heh. My employers are great. We've got a lounge with a big 1080i plasma screen and a 5.1 surround system. It's got an XBox 360 hooked up to it, and two "Xplorer"-model Guitar Hero guitars.
When more than one of us has downtime at the same time, we actually play "Rock Band"! There's no room for the drum kit, but we routinely have three people playing at the same time. The addition of vocals (compared to the Guitar Hero series) means we actually get a lot more of the ladies at our office to participate. (Though sometimes they force me to try and sing "Roxanne".)
(God, I love my job sometimes.)
If that's true, you (and your kind) may actually be the phantom shitter (what with having nothing better to do and time to waste). By this I mean those who are anally agile enough to deposit a semi-solid mass on the backside of the interior of a toilet bowl that doesn't get washed away by normal flushing.
I've seen this phenomenon on a few occasions and have never been sure if it was a religious thing, a college prank intended to send the message "I am here", some sort of weirdly-oriented sphincter or evidence of shitting aliens in our midst. Screw SETI, solve the phantom shitter mystery first!