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Login/Join to ParticipateCarpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Personnaly the time i spend on the net i end up getting paid for - mainly coz i have HOP running in the background for most of the day.............
I figure - im not alone, i was just curious to see if any other hoppers are clever enough to get paid to HOP
***hides windows quickly as boss is coming
***"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
*Guilty*
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Yep - work? What's that?
Oh, the thing you do when you're not on HoP/Firetoys/Soton-FS/CJ.org/Miniclip
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
and inbetween the "umm time for a coffee" and "Im sure i left that paperwork in another office" *runs and hides*
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
i've done *some* work this morning
and maybe looked at rec.juggling just a tiny bit...
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely 
old hand
845 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Yep!! One of these day's I'll get caught but until then I quite like getting paid to go on the net!!
Slicing the Loaf as we speak.
I need it..... Trust me!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
i get caught all the time.... but wen your mum is your boss... they cant really complain! xxx
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
Uncle Chop Chop
213 posts
Location: Time is the Fire in which we burn, United Kingdom
"Do you know what the Phantom is??"
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
me to!
you pay taxes to schools, and i spend that on teh net on hop
Step (el-nombrie)
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
not me oh no. I wouldn't dare. I think that people who do are terrible and waste all those lovely corporate profits in HoP surfing. And I'm not at work right now either 
Ah fook it. Yep work all the way. I hardly ever come here at the weekend I don't have time! I can't help being super duper efficient compared to my workmates so I get all my work done supa fast to give me surfy HoPpy time
Let's relight this forum 
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
guilty as charged.... i love my job, honest, but with all this bandwith it would be a sin not to.
Yesterday I got 970k a second. HELLO!!!
Love is the law.
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Guilty as well...but really, it's not my fault. If my bosses would give me stuff to do, I might actually have a reason not to surf HOP.
Watcher of 80s cartoons
665 posts
Location: Chepstow & Bristol, United Kingdom
Can't surf whilst working at school - but can in all the 13 weeks of paid holidays I get
>What do you think about the state of the Earth?
>I'm optimistic.
>So why do you look so sad?
>I'm not sure that my optimism is justified.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
also guilty - except I don't feel guilty about it. does that make me a bad person
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
GUILTY
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
Same as spritie...if they'd give me something to do....I'd be happily productive, ducking into HoP during lunch or breaks....as it is...I twiddle my thumbs once I get my followup done, and then twiddle them some more while I wait for clients to call in.
blah.
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
not only do they pay me to post/lurk on HoP all day, i also get paid for scouring the net for :
- cheap flights & accommodation for my folks' trip to paris in a few weeks
- info from lonely planet & thorn tree
- checking out bargains on amazon
- keeping tabs on all dublin gig listings
i love this job
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
its hard to hook up an internet connection half way down the river in a canoe!So no, my HoP time has to be saved for my free time.
Luckily I'm not working at the moment though...
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
The great benefit of working in a windowless basement is that you can do whatever you like and no-one knows about it.
Though the rats sometimes gang up on me and steal my food.
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
633 posts
Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
*yawn* ~ hmmm work , i think i used to do that at some stage of my life ...
ive been surfing HoP so long i cant remember ???
i like breaking the Law 
, of Gravity !
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
no internet in the shop i work in. Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
i would, but no computers where i work. when i come home on break though's a different story:D
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
note to self:
GET A NEW JOB!!!!!
One where I don't run around like a
all day, barely having time to have a brew, let alone surf on HoP! My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
HOP OM
225 posts
Location: HOP Central, New Zealand
Yep,
8 hrs a day five days a week at HOP central.
and lovin it
Certainly helps feed my fire addiction.
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
wow! you must be doing a LOT of lurking to be on here so much at work and only have 42 posts. You should come say "Hi" more often.
Christian Death Metal Anyone?
313 posts
Location: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Yeah i do aswell, hence why all my post's are during office hours. They sit me infront of a computer and give me no work, what would they expect. Even the accountant behind plays solatare(sp?) all day.
I get all my work done that i am asked and they're not paying me much so i use net as much as possable.
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
-- Steven Wright
veteran
1,433 posts
Location: 8 days at Cloudbreak, 6 in Perth, Australia
That's all I can do is surf the net while I am at work...and our bosses are fine with it.
In fact one of my bosses has been on this site himself after seeing me looking at some of the photos...
My job involves talking on the phone all day and absolutely nothing else (I work for the government, go figure)...
Poi-tato
183 posts
Location: Iceberg 319, Canada
well im currently looking for work and u can see where i sit in all this at a chair on HOP
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potato's.
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Im ALWAYS AT WORK.... and on hop. *smirk*
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
X how many responses were there? I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
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