Best ways to screw off while at work.

[Asmodean]

Here's a link to help pass your time:

http://www.techtales.com/tftechs.html

Asmodean

[Gibsie]

Why would you need help goofing off when you hav the internet at your disposable?!

It was my last day at work today... since I worked as part of a small team goofing off opportunities were slim, but I would e-mail my girlfriend (Although no internet access), take frequent toilet breaks, and just sit at my PC doing nothing.

Hooray!

[Dinner]

That's a good link. I love the "blah, blah, blah" story.

[Chemical Ollie]

My employer keep logs of all my internet activity, including what I post on 'poly. That's why I normally wait until I get home before I post anything controversial. They won't sack me for excessive use of the net, but they may close my connection if I overdo it. Good for me, my boss does not draw a line between private time and work time. He himself works when he's off duty and takes long breaks when he's supposed to be working. He doesn't care if I do some private surfing, as long as the other people in the management team doesn't find out.

[Spiffor]

Join a Democracy game
Or I heard http://www.tdzk.net was a good time killer too. I never got the activation email though

[Japher]

maybe too productive:

I like to read financial sites and research housing prices, areas, and demographics in areas I might want to buy... I know that you want to get into real estate one day, best to start learning and researching now...

[Chemical Ollie]

Tell us when you are back from your "fake dump" Oerdin - Was it relaxing? I sometimes do that when I have a bad day. Not for an hour but for 20-30 minutes or so, 2-3 times during a full workday. I seldom have a hangover at work, but I am quite often tired from 'poly surfing or Civing

[Japher]

Olaf; ppl must find you weird that you have to go to the bathroom so much

[Japher]

read "Cool Joke" on Tech Tales, had me rollin'

[Dinner]

Well, my fake dump turned into a real dump and the place kind of stunk so I didn't hang out for very long. Still, it's a good idea and I think I'll keep it in mind for the next slow day.

[Japher]

TMI

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Japher
maybe too productive:

I like to read financial sites and research housing prices, areas, and demographics in areas I might want to buy... I know that you want to get into real estate one day, best to start learning and researching now...

That's a good idea. I regularly check the local newspaper but I imagine that most of the houses never make it into the paper and instead are kept on one of those broker web sites. Do you know any good housing locator web sites?

[Japher]

not for around there, I generally search something like "Sacramento, Fair Oaks, Homes for Sale" and click around on brokers, or you can try and find free MLS servers in your area, some of them require a small fee.

Or you can even look through the classifieds on sacbee.com....

There are also plenty of discussion groups around that chat on how to get a loan, buy a house, insure it, etc...

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Japher
Olaf; ppl must find you weird that you have to go to the bathroom so much

We have no bathrooms on my floor, just toilets The showers for the blue-collar workers are on another floor. (sorry for the bad joke, I know that Americans say bathroom when they actually mean crapper)

And I think it would be very embarrassing for them to ask what I actually did on the toilet, don't you think?. (If they even take notice of my visit frequency.)

And I almost never take fake dumps, they are for real in 95 % of the cases. I only extend the time taking them. I suppose I have a special digestion system, as there could sometimes be 3-4 real lavatory visits in a day.

[Dinner]

3-4 per day?! Jesus, that is a lot of crapping. There is no way I could go that often. I'll just stick to one per day thank you.