Tell Boss Nothing To Do

[quote]Chewie wrote:
Aleksandr wrote:
Find an excuse to work from home. Then you can spend your days eating, napping, playing video games, and curing the sausage (wtf?).

The (wtf?) literally made me laugh out loud.[/quote]

HAHAHA same here, I think I woke up the house mates.

Now would be a good time to start that eBusiness selling steroids from company premises.

Think BIG!

I mentioned not having enough work so my boss gave me some busy work.

I mentioned it a second time and he asked me if I would like to transfer back to Iraq.

I quit bothering him after that.

[quote]Chewie wrote:
Aleksandr wrote:
Find an excuse to work from home. Then you can spend your days eating, napping, playing video games, and curing the sausage (wtf?).

The (wtf?) literally made me laugh out loud.[/quote]

Me too. “curing the sausage (wtf?)” is a total LOLverine attack.

Also, Just use this time while you have it to put together all of your other administrative tasks such as reorganizing mp3’s, collectibe good bits of porn and translating them from .flv to .mpeg, also you could meet the wife/gf/hooker/boyfriend for lunch. Curing the sausage (wtf?) in the john might also be in order.

Get a couple books on tape or watch downloaded documentaries.

-chris

Things to do while there is nothing to do at work:

Go outside and pretend that you passed out from smoking cigarettes.

Bring a oz of weed to work and get everyone high.

Read for an hour while you take a shit and drink some Jim Beam.

Act out scenes from Pulp Fiction after you blazed.

If there is females do the Titanic, you might have to watch it first, because like me I have never seen it. Then bone for the rest of the day in the bathroom.

Decorate a stall, just for you so you feel at home when you lay brown cement.

Write interesting and controversial articles and tape them into the bathroom so people well take the browns to the super bowl quicker so you can go back to the bathroom while they try to find you, while you get stoned in the bathroom.

Go home early and smoke some weed.

Go to a restaurant and say it’s a business meeting and create public affairs with important people then get them blazed with them for the added bond.

Try to get a kiss in 12 minutes from each female co-worker you have. Males too if you’re into that, bosses too just be careful.

Go to PetSmart and buy about 100 crickets and let them loose and go home earlier because of infestation.

Have a cocktail party every afternoon.

Never tell your boss you have nothing to do.

I say I am doing private research.

That I’m looking into something.

Or I go home early.

I was in the same situation for two years (!) in a large telco company when I started working. There was a shortage of desks, so my office (a glorified cubicle with a door) was situated a floor below the rest of the department.

Everybody else sort of forgot about me, and I soon reached a stage when my weekly workload consisted only of rerouting some reports about services usage which took around 5 minutes.

Here are some stuff I did for those two blissful years at work, in no particular order:

slept
watched porn
wrote my master thesis
did a lot of my PhD research
watched movies
learnt conversational spanish
learnt conversational portugese
learnt basic french
did dips / pullups / one legged squats
read A LOT of books
watched a large cactus grow
did origami
surfed the net
played games
read all articles on (then) T-mag
masturbated
communicated with a bunch of weirdos on a personal dating site claiming to be a 18-year old bisexual girl suffering from nymphomania
created web sites as an additional income

[quote]loppar wrote:
I was in the same situation for two years (!) in a large telco company when I started working. There was a shortage of desks, so my office (a glorified cubicle with a door) was situated a floor below the rest of the department.

Everybody else sort of forgot about me, and I soon reached a stage when my weekly workload consisted only of rerouting some reports about services usage which took around 5 minutes.

Here are some stuff I did for those two blissful years at work, in no particular order:

slept
watched porn
wrote my master thesis
did a lot of my PhD research
watched movies
learnt conversational spanish
learnt conversational portugese
learnt basic french
did dips / pullups / one legged squats
read A LOT of books
watched a large cactus grow
did origami
surfed the net
played games
read all articles on (then) T-mag
masturbated
communicated with a bunch of weirdos on a personal dating site claiming to be a 18-year old bisexual girl suffering from nymphomania
created web sites as an additional income

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FUCKING AWESOME!

When I worked for the feds I was in a similar situation. I looked for additional important projects to help with - looked above my immediate supervisor. End result, I was rehired as a contractor (because of job description issues) at nearly twice the salary. Because I had proven myself as a hard worker they left me alone to work. I did not even have a job description and essentially made my own hours. After I quit they hired four people to replace me. I have no idea what they did since I only worked on task about 20 hours a week.

[quote]loppar wrote:
communicated with a bunch of weirdos on a personal dating site claiming to be a 18-year old bisexual girl suffering from nymphomania
[/quote]

Awe shit - that was you?

If you were in the private sector I’d advise you to start looking for another job before your entire department gets laid off. Working for the government is different but not that different. Eventually someone will audit your department and cut backs or re-assignments will be in order. There probably isn’t a whole lot you can do between now and then. But if you are concerned about long term job stability you might want to begin applying for jobs in other government sectors or departments (promotion?), or even look to the private sector for employment. I wouldn’t be content to sit around and just accept this situation. Eventually it’ll all come crashing down.

[quote]sen say wrote:
Okay…I have absolutely nothing to do at my job. I’ve tried finding more work to do, but there’s really nothing that needs to be done in the department I work in. My co-workers also have nothing to do. We all pretend to be busy, but no one’s doing anything. I’m believing my boss has nothing to do also. I seriously have about 4 hours of work every month.

I was just in a meeting where people in other departments were talking about how busy they are.

If you were me, would you tell your boss flat out you have nothing to do ? I’m thinking of requesting that he let me talk to other departments and see if I can help them on a consultative basis. I work for the US Government so this isn’t something we normally do.

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Never! Government jobs are safe but still I wouldn’t want to get handed a bunch of “busy” work just for the heck or it either.

Just pull a George Costanza…walk around with a pissed off look on your face all day and people will think you are busy. Set up a cot in your cube under the desk and get some shut eye that way you are all rested for your next gym session.

[quote]pushharder wrote:
Sen, that’s no way to live your life. Quit your job and become self-employed. You’ll never be out of things to do again.[/quote]

Thinking about becoming a Private Investigator…who’s in ???

I’m down. I already spend most of my evenings hiding in bushes taking photographs of couples. Might as well get paid!