h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(First off, I'm new, so Hi Everybody!)

I am desperately bored at work right now. The most interesting thing going on in my office is the ant that seems to be attempting to crawl into the electric socket.

I've exhausted one player "tic tac toe" and putting random words into google.

What are some things people here have come up with (beyond registering in new and interesting websites) to make the monotonous work day go a little faster?

At the risk of sounding really rude, and honest I don't mean to be. I do however, find that people who work in offices get really bored. I have never worked in an office and cannot imagine how it must be wishing the clock would move all day.

I have had many jobs and have no idea what boredom is. Spend your time looking for another job. You are obviously worth something better otherwise you would be quite happy to just be brain dead and do nothing.

Thinly disguised smut, random conversations, discussions about global warming. Take your pick.

Personally I like the thinly disguised smut.

Hootoo.

i couldnt do desk work

You could find some googlewhacks, the art of putting in two words from the dictionary and pulling out a single google result.

Call it extreme but you could do some work. Sorry I said a swear, didn't mean to.

Oh believe me, I'm still a student, so this is just as summer job for the money. If this were a real job I would quit right now, buy a bike and head west to California. I'm just trying to survive until September when I can escape.

When you do escape, please put a sign somewhere you cannot miss it saying
OFFICE WORK IS DULL
Come to think of it are you in America? Ithought America was never dull.

You have no work to do?
Sad as I am, I tend to make bets (in chocolate) of how much work I can do in a day. then once I've satisfied myself and am utterly bored, I play games/mess around. But at the moment, I'm jobless.

I will file the sign idea under "Things to do on my last day." Yep, I'm in America, but I think office work is horrible and dull no matter where you are.

You could fetch lots of drinks and ice cream for the people sitting near you.

Footbacon - *definitely not taking advantage of student at work*

Do you w*rk with a group of people? Does your w*rk involve telephone calls? If yes to both you should try and insert random words into the telephone conversation and have a point scoring system (perhaps even with a minor prize at the end of the week!)

Bear in mind the rules, you have to stand up when said random word is inserted and everyone else has to cheer when it is said!

We used to have minutes of fun inserting random fruits into a sales pitch!

BTW we used to use 'glitter' quite frequently, as well (although that [probably wouldn't go down so well now

>>try and insert random words into the telephone conversation and have a point scoring system <<

I work in a call centre and that is an excellent game! Other words to use are words that sound dirty or disgusting, Eg: Mastication (chewing), opening (an easy one granted but not when used in a potentially dirty context "put it into the opening" Tee Hee, etc.), Penal Code, etc.

If you have an internet connection at work, the first thing you must do is subscribe to dilbert.com. Join Dogbert's new ruling class, if you like. Learn how to do as little work as possible, whilst earning the maximum kudos for what you do (I've got this one down pat...everyone thinks I'm "really busy" all the time, so anything I do for them gets massive gratefulness).

RF