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#1 Aug 01 2005 at 10:12 AM Rating: Good
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I don't know if I can claim this title, but I'm pretty damn bored 95% of the time.

I'm an IT gofer with a boss that has the view of "If you want it done right, do it yourself." So he usually has an hour of work or so for me every morning but it's all really easy stuff. Install this program using this exact walkthru, go remove some lint from the intakes of these computers here, install Windows Updates on every computer over the course of the week, etc etc.

After that I just sit around waiting for something to break so I can fix it. Sometimes there's a lot of malfunctioning printers and network cards, but more often I'm done for the day at 9:30 and have to somehow kill time till 4:30 when I can leave.

To make things worse, there's a filter at work that blocks practically anything entertaining, including this site. But I'm in IT so I figured nobody would notice if I added just one site to the allow list.

>.>

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#2 Aug 01 2005 at 10:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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lol. i get bored alot at work to n just got home to see there is maintenance... im going to bed >_< i work the graveyard shift and its boring as hell i tell you!!
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#3 Aug 01 2005 at 10:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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lol I stand here and watch stuff come out of printers all day..

/sigh

yeah.. I'm bored
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#4 Aug 01 2005 at 10:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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I am usually bored in the morning, which is when I do all my forum hopping, but it usually picks up after lunch. After that I spend the rest of the day coding ;p
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#5 Aug 01 2005 at 10:20 AM Rating: Good
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I'm at home right now and really bored... extremely bored...

Online is getting duller...

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#6 Aug 01 2005 at 10:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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nothing to do today, the clock goes sooooooooooo slow
#7 Aug 01 2005 at 10:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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..I watch stuff come out of printers and I put them into fax machines.

Work starts out boring, gets a little mind-numbing early afternoon and ends up terminally dull.

I wanna go home and play ballista. -_-
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#8 Aug 01 2005 at 10:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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I work in a legal aid governement office that hires 6 lawyers, while 2 would be enough to do the job, so I'm bored a lot. Thanks to this forum, my days go fine. I wish I could install FFXI at work (my character would have several jobs at 75 by now if I could)

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#9 Aug 01 2005 at 10:44 AM Rating: Good
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Okay I think the legal aid is the winner, I'm actually at school shirking signoffs yet again.


I'll get around to working sometime in the next hour (said that two hours ago)
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#10 Aug 01 2005 at 10:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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I am rarely bored at my job but I hate it so much that I make time to slack off, I'm quitting anyway though, so ummm yeah!
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#11 Aug 01 2005 at 10:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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I can barely keep my eyes open right now... 10 min til lunch and a little sleep.
#12 Aug 01 2005 at 10:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm bored, too! /waves

I'm a cute IT chick ^-^
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#13 Aug 01 2005 at 11:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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My job is to answer the phone in an executive office....no one wants to call here obviously. I have about 30minutes of work in an 8 hour day...mind numbing does not even descibe this. If it wasn't for the internet i would be alot farther into insanity.
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#14 Aug 01 2005 at 11:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Glad to know I'm not the only one. ^^ I might as well rate everybody up since I don't have anything better to do right now. :/

What complicates my job is that I'll probably get canned if they find out what exactly I do all day, but I like my pay ($12/hr is good for a college student, especially for such easy work) so I want to keep the job.

So I wander around the facility pretending to do stuff, but basically I browse these forums on about 10 different machines, cleaning the cookies and history each time just in case.

But what else can I do? I can't look bored, but there's no work to do and they want me here full time. I wish I had a desk in a corner so I could read a book or do some tunnelling out of the network and check out some other good sites, like Penny-Arcade. I miss that. I have access to the filter even though I'm not supposed to but I think somebody might notice if I stick too many sites on the allow list. So I risked Alla since its a reliable 3 hr waste of time every day. XD

There's also this really awesome wall I like to stare at from about 2-2:30.
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#15 Aug 01 2005 at 11:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm always incredibly bored at work. I'm a drafter, but 95% of the time that means printing out maps to send around the company. That mean I press the "Print" button a lot and sit for an hour waiting for our huge, out-dated plotter to print out 10 45x35 maps. During that hour, I play on the 'net. Smiley: tongue
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#16 Aug 01 2005 at 11:41 AM Rating: Good
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It is amazing how quickly working as a play tester can get very boring, especially when I have been testing only one game for the past 4 months. I spend alot of time on this site during the day, as well as browsing the news, my 2 LS forums, Livejournal, and a rather interesting site called grouphug.com, which is a site where people can post anonymous confessions. Even still, it is a struggle to remain awake.
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#17 Aug 01 2005 at 11:53 AM Rating: Good
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Considering how much time (actually comparable to the time wasted on FFXI >.>) I wasted on Halo just messing around with various bugs and stuff, I think I could enjoy being a playtester. I spent 4 hours once seeing if it was possible to get to the ground alive from the first bridge you cross in Assault on the Control Room. If that ledge around the wall was just 2 feet higher up I know I could have done it, too. :P
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#18 Aug 01 2005 at 11:56 AM Rating: Good
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Hey, Janx, if you can, go to the LS website.

OK, so I'm actually busy* at work this week. Up till now, I've only done about 20 hours of work** this entire summer, but I get paid for 40 a week. ^^

*by busy I mean I have something to do for more than 1 hour
**by work I mean actually doing something that benifits my employer other than sitting around waiting for something to break.
#19 Aug 01 2005 at 12:12 PM Rating: Good
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I am pretty bored most days at work.

Currently I have two jobs. At the moment I am at a medical school doing research. But, the head of my department decided he wanted to send out the samples to another lab (for quality control). So, the job I was hired to do was sent out. Therefore, I am now paid to do work for another company that is not the persons paying me. Since they are not paying me they could care less whether or not I do the work.

So, most days I hang out and read. Boring... but I can leave whenever I want and get paid for 40 hours a week regardless of how many I actually work. God I love research...

My other job I answer a helpline phone and answer emails. Most days I end up actually playing FFXI for most of my shift. Life is good.

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#20 Aug 01 2005 at 12:25 PM Rating: Good
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I'm usually decently busy during the day. I'm a programmer for the Quality Assurance department. It's basically my job to write software that prevents other people from ******** stuff up or that makes them more efficient. Every now and then though I get stuck in a spot where I can't progress in a project until someone answers a question for me. Then again, the other day my boss took a few days vactation without giving me another project immediately after I had just finished the one I had.
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#21 Aug 01 2005 at 1:20 PM Rating: Good
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I already posted this somewhere before, but it got worse today so I'll just say it again. I basically scan files into a computer all day long. But today was something special, it seems like the whole front office called out of work today and I'm the online intern on staff as of now, so ofcourse they push me up front to pick up phones all day. Do I do anything else? Nope, since they havent taught me anything, all I can do is sit here and wait for the phone, and can only really leave my desk to take a **** since it seems no one else can pick up the phone... sigh.. so thats my day.
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