I frequently have all of my work completed, and I am unfortunately not allowed to work from home. This means I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk scrolling social media, because there’s nothing that needs done. I feel like I’m wasting my time, even more than work already wasted the best hours of the day. How do you fill that downtime with something that is personally valuable, but not disruptive or noticeable enough that you’d get in trouble?
Art.
I’m a nerd who plays and GMs tabletop RPGs with friends. I often use slack time at work to build out my campaigns and characters.
Do online courses in areas of your interest.
Yes! Bonus points if your areas of interest align with your job, you may be able to get your company to foot the bill
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By doom scrolling on Lemmy and Reddit.
- see if there’s literally anything else you can do to improve or polish what you just worked on
- set if there’s anyone else that might need help with their work or who you can mentor
- learn new things you can put on your resume it that will help you in your job
- learn stuff in general that isn’t directly work related, but maybe related to your next job/what you would like to work with
Nursing student / surgical tech here. I do a lot of my studying at work when I’m not scrubbed in to a surgery. All our text books are digital, so I can whip my phone out at any time to get some reading done, especially if I can pop a headphone in and use the text-to-speech features to listen to them - I’ll do that while I’m restocking supplies / pulling the next days cases / cleaning / checking for out-dates. Surgery schedule is always feast or famine, so when we’re not occupied with patient care there are a hundred other ways to keep busy - but most of those don’t really require thinking, so time for school.
Paying me to poop is also a fantastic use of my employer’s income. There’s a crazy correlation with the amount of busy work pushed on us vs the severity of constipation that shows up out of the blue. Sometimes it just takes a half hour to drop a log, ya know?? 🤷♂️
I read wikipedia or fun books(novels) from zlib/annas. Also some lemmy and hn.
if you drop the file in word, it almost looks like you’re working
suduko?
Learn how to code
Watch out for potential troublemaking coworkers who think youre hacking.
Or the ones who think you’re trying to make everyone redundant. I’ve worked on scripts that have been shut down because a co worker thought it would make people lose their jobs so they complain to the boss.
Chess puzzles. Reading about my hobbies.
Mastubate in the toilet like every other sane person ?
We have just the one porta potty. It’s gonna be a challenging wank not just because of the nastiness but also because of the pressure from people lining up to use it
Skill issue
I mean I did say challenging and not impossible
Chess puzzles. Sometimes informational YouTube. There’s not usually that much time though.
I walk around the shop and bullshit with others, maybe clean or organize stuff. Or help build panels if I’m caught up on testing. We’re so busy right now tho those days are kind of long gone. Currently working overtime indefinitely til like 2027 at least.
There is always more documentation to update sadly.
There is always old customer data to remove. I am currently working on a plan to remove the vxlan and firewall sub interfaces for a customer that was lost 3 years ago.I’ve spent a lot of time ruminating on the state of society and mourning the loss of better days.
