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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?"
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What a slacker! You guys are all the reason that people like me get frustrated when our infrastructure sucks and doesn't live up to system requirements. Get to !@#$%^ work. If I ever found myself without work items on a project then my company is not going to make it. Find something to do. Make something better. Go above and beyond. If you are reasonly skilled in IT then you know there is always something to improve, optimize, etc. This is the first article I have ever responded to because it makes me so sick. "Down time" is not what made America great. You make me sick.
In almost 2.5 years in my current position, I don't recall more than about 10-15 minutes of downtime in a single "event". Moreover, there have been precious few of those events per week (as in, less than 5). You wouldn't survive a month in my environment....
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That's hard to believe, either you're fresh out of school with no responsibilities or are headed for getting laid off....Oh and please don't apply to my company when you're looking for a job, I don't need deadbeats like you.
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No, that isn't evil. Mean spirited, Maybe, but it is hardly even mildly sadistic. No, downtime should involve convincing the person with a close deadline that their almost complete report is a virus. Then, go on to convince them that they have to delete it with a screwdriver or the company could lose thousands of computers. Before you do that, it hardly counts as funny, let alone evil.