Games When you're Bored at work
- Thread starter Mr Janny
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"My lair's a hundred times nicer than this. You think I'd show you my lair?"
Level up and play not only with your coworkers but about your coworkers. It's a great teambuilding exercise.
Whenever I'm stuck on a bridge call in the wee hours I connect my ear buds to my computer and just keep 1 in while I watch TV, play video games, clean, really whatever I would do around the house with nothing else going on. Usually easy to realize when I might be needed and get back to my laptop before having to say "sorry, can you repeat that?"
I work with clients in pretty much every time zone in the world. Was just on a call with a client in Qatar last week that included team members in India, Romania, Cali, KC and Philly. Part of the time we had folks from our database team looking into an issue that I was useless for but simply needed to be on for when they got that figured out. Why the F should I not have been d***ing around at 10 PM when I could perfectly well keep up with the conversation with my laptop right in front of me while watching game 4 of the Pacers/Knicks series?
Not a big deal. I just do my part. I don't ride the backs of others like some on here think is a funny thing to do. I'm more than a spreadsheet accountant who thinks their big **** because they put 8 minutes of work into their day. How anyone does anything like that for a living is beyond me. The boredom and lack of accomplishment would kill me. "What did you accomplish in life"? I sat in a cubicle and processed #"s. Always wondered what the cubicle people were doing whenever I have to run into the office. Now I know. 8 minutes of work a day and jumped on the Internet to mock people actually doing something. Im not big **** but I'll call anyone a low life with this mentality.
Some office guy ****** your wife in the past, huh. I'm glad to be a computer person. I didn't want to end up like dozens I've seen around and before me whose bodies are completely destroyed by age 45 from constant manual labor and having some the same job for the previous 30 years. Cube (well, WFH life now) sure isn't glamorous most days, but it's definitely good for my long term heallh and career prospects.
Phone games notwithstanding, of course. Legends bust out Chess.com to clown on the low elo's.
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Hear hear! Personally I'm in it for the VIP line at the Pearly Gates. It's going to be so satisfying being behind the velvet rope and looking down at all of the losers who DIDN'T work on National projects for structures from Alaska to Florida. "Enjoy lazy man's heaven, you jerks! Hope you like Totino's Pizza Rolls!"
Do you compensate this much in all aspects of your life? or just when you can remain anonymous cause none of us know who you are?
