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Location: Luxemburg (home) Britain (uni), Luxembourg
hey all,
at the moment i'm doing some really mindless office work to get some cash for summer, even though it's my last day
i'm bored to deathjust thought i'd start this post for some entertainment, reading what u guys do when bored to death at work
Tom
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1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
same as you, post on HOP
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely 
rrragghh!
121 posts
Location: Manchester, UK
I tend to read loads of rubbish on the net and at the moment I'm addicted to playing stick cricket https://www.mousebreaker.net/game15.shtml
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Eat mostly.... this is my first office job... and i just non stop eat... seriosly its not good! Plus i hang out on here. x
tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.
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26 posts
Location: Luxemburg (home) Britain (uni), Luxembourg
bloody firewall at the office blocks Flash and Shockwave stuff =(
883 posts
Location: Stevenage
I draw pictures of fairies on till rolls, in fact there's a till roll in my gallery lol. I still haven't found a better job
Gotta go there in a minute in fact woop woop Monkeys monkeys and bananas
245 posts
Location: At the beach.
If you ever get to stressed out at work check this out.
https://homepage.mac.com/stevelyon/vacation/imovie.html
Will make the day alot more enjoyable. I still can't stop laughing.
If everything seems under control, your not going fast enough!
It's not the size of the wave, it's the length of the ride!
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Location: Luxemburg (home) Britain (uni), Luxembourg
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!
I hate the IT people here....also blocked...they really know how to keep work boring :S
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
heh. i just post here. and play games.
i have a super game to suggest but since you can't get shockwave....
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**
633 posts
Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
at least your employed ... some of us just sit around and reply to posts!!! .... *sigh* ~"one day i'll have a job"~
*homemade smiles and thinks of wonderful thoughts*
i like breaking the Law , of Gravity 
!
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
ha! my job is hardly employment. don't you have to be paid to be employed? it's called cheap labor.
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**
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
I write on till rolls too, I planned my dissertation on one
granted this isn't an office based time filler... sundays in an outdoors shop were also pretty boring though, we spent time constructing things out of rollmats, and firing those tag things across the shop....
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
HoP Star Wars Aficionado
183 posts
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
I sit here and post
OH! And I play my addiction:
www.ebaumsworld.com/tontie.html
~Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Try to subtly drive your colleagues insane.
First one to get a work-mate to take sick leave wins.
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
A perth girl gone walkabout...
396 posts
Location: Back home in Perth WA, Australia
I dream of holidays!! And research every random thought i have - googling everything to see what is possible, how much things cost and where....
Oh, and email everyone i havn't seen in awhile - altho i tend to get replys back once work gets busy
Oh, and edit photos - bring in cd's with photos on and use work time to edit them in bizzare ways to entertain myself.
Oh, and of course, visit HOP to see whats up - Just like i'm doing now - Damn it, really should do some mroe work - hideously behind, only 4 hours and 14 mins to go till hometime
I smile because i have no idea whats going on!!
member
64 posts
Location: Mid North Coast, NSW, Australia
I dream of holidays too! And join paperclips together LOL Not very exciting but it does fill in time.
Roll up!, The Doctors in the house!
243 posts
Location: Fife, United Kingdom
i have a smoke n then just chill out n mess about on the web!
good days
If we all ate one person then i'd be full.
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
I see how little work i can do without my manager noticing.
And whilst upstairs in the stock room i try and get a little snooze in. Doesn't work well... The damn intercom keeps on buzzing.
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
haha!!! i take naps too! great thing about having my own office!
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**
508 posts
Location: manchester, uk
try replying to everything everyone says to you with the worrds..." that's what they told me you would say" works a treat
It's smashing to be back x
TNT
173 posts
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Lurk on HOP at least twice a day
Play Pinball and Freecell (I'm up to 15,322 wins!)
Read stoopid stuff on www.newsoftheweird.com
Work on frustrating crossword puzzles
Daydream of a better life...
Practice poi moves without poi until I knock the lamp over
...anything but work!
Fear the evil monkey!
Carpal \'Tunnel
4,172 posts
Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
bored? at work? me?! god never! if im not cleaning up poo from someones bathroom im cleaning up sick from another place or hoovering this and washingup that.
It's funny though. saturdays are prolly the busiest time of the week when im at work yet its the time when i do most thinking. I think its cos im shut of from my own friends and stuff and just getting on with the job in hand.
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Today has been VERY boring for me today.
i have had about two phone calls to fix things... and the rest of the time Ive been looking up parts for the new server I have to build
Then I have to tell my boss that he has to spend about £2000 on parts
And I get to put them all together!
I managed to buy a book today for £4 in total (inc P&P from the US!
) today about Windows Small Business Server 2003 edition..Sorry.. I'll stop talking crap and get to the point.
If you are in the UK, the Channel 4 has an excellent way of spending time at work, watching many of their programmes, totally for free. You have to install the program (its only small) and then it plays it through a windows media player window (not WMP itself).
You can also download programmes that you want to watch, them watch them later on.
https://www.channel4.com/4od/index.html
https://www.channel4.com/4od/get4od/index.jsp
Im particularly enjoying "Fonejacker"
Other cool stuff is "The IT Crowd"
There's loads of stuff to watch... so dive in.
143 posts
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
I have the entertaining job of making or breaking people's modeling dreams via phonecall. I get played essentially to play "Hot or Not."
When I run out of numbers, I tidy up the office or else lurk on various boards or feed my CNN addiction. I try to always look busy, y'know. Nine hour work days suck though.
"Watch those explosions in the sky and you'll go blind, but not this time. Will you live in hope or dark desire? What can I say? F*ck love give me fire." ~Cities Of Night by Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok)
Proudly MCRmy
QuackerJack
1,927 posts
Location: over your left shoulder, Australia
I heart the IT crowd. And the Mighty Boosh.
Nutella Brigade Unite!
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Owned By Steaks
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Count Quackula, you might be interetsted in "That Mitchel and Web look" - Its by the guys from "Peep Show" after the BBC bought them
Its very good.
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Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
At work I follow all of your virtual lives...
Buy gerbils cos you can't spin with hamsters
laughter is the way to get through life
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Location: Inverness, United Kingdom
I usually play pranks on my fellow coligues. ha ha one day one of them was sleeping on a chair in the lab. I crept up to him slowly and skooshed water up his nose. He did not take it very well but everyone else was in stitches. ha ha he is a chump anyway.
I fell down a hill once, got up then fell down it again.
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