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[SSGMUN10000]

Alright I recently started working a new shift at work. Work 10 hours a day 4 days a week. Now the work day seems to drag forever. Im looking for ways to kill time, I thought about buying and bringing a DS or PSP when it comes out but doesnt seem like wise career advancement idea. Any creative ideas on how to kill time? The only good thing is that I get fri-sat-sun off.

 

[Shogmaster]

Have you tried napping? A wonderful time killer.

 

[wobedraggled]

I work 12 hours a day 5 days a week this time of year, and it goes by pretty well, but my DS is always in my pocket in case I get stuck in a slow spot.

I do on site and in office It work just for the sake of the discussion

 

[SSGMUN10000]

Im stuck in a dreaded cube the whole 10 hrs.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Im stuck in a dreaded cube the whole 10 hrs.

You do know you don't have to sit there the whole 10 hours. You can walk around the building and get a little excersise in. Besides you get Fri-Sun off. Stop being a pussy and suck it up.

 

[Loki]

Pfft...10 hours? You young'ns have it easy!


Seriously, though, I got my first job right after I turned 16, and shifts were a minimum of 10 hours-- usually 11-12 hours (this was at a catering hall). If you worked a "double", you were typically there from 8:30-9 AM until about 2:30 AM, sometimes later. I used to do that about 2 or 3 times each week, consecutively. At one point, I was working about 65 hours/week; it wasn't that bad because I wasn't going to school then (I'd cut out). The money wasn't great in terms of hourly wage, but when you're 16-17 making $450/week clear, it's pretty cool.


Then I started working at this Italian restaurant right before I turned 20. I'd usually only work the weekends (fri-sun), but it'd be around 32 hours total, sometimes more if I had to do the lunch shift on Saturday. So yeah, I'm pretty used to 10-18 hour shifts-- I've never worked a shift shorter than that.


The worst part of all this (both jobs)? You couldn't sit down. Ever. But at least now when I have to wait in long lines with people, and everyone else starts bitching about having to stand up for so long, I'm cool as a cucumber.


The moral of the story: suck it up, young buck.


(This has been Loki's "when I was young, I used to trudge 10 miles through waist-deep snow to get a loaf of bread" tale of the day )

 

[Manick Joe]

Just finished one at the big red dot (Circuit City, not Target). Got to re-alphabatize the entire videogame department which was in total disorder. I usually get this shift (8:00 AM - 6:00 PM) twice a week.

 

[onion_pixy]

Alright I recently started working a new shift at work. Work 10 hours a day 4 days a week. Now the work day seems to drag forever. Im looking for ways to kill time, I thought about buying and bringing a DS or PSP when it comes out but doesnt seem like wise career advancement idea. Any creative ideas on how to kill time? The only good thing is that I get fri-sat-sun off.

Ten hour shifts and fridays off, must be nice? I work ten hours monday and wedensday. Twelve hours on tuesday and thursday. Friday I work a fifteen hour day. This week I had to do another 12 hour shift on satuday as well, tho thats rare. Bored? I bring my laptop and surf the internet and play games, etc. If you dont have internet, watch DVDs on it. Also there are lots of good emulators. It's much easier to look like your working if youre on a note book computer.

 

[SSGMUN10000]

Ten hour shifts and fridays off, must be nice? I work ten hours monday and wedensday. Twelve hours on tuesday and thursday. Friday I work a fifteen hour day. This week I had to do another 12 hour shift on satuday as well, tho thats rare. Bored? I bring my laptop and surf the internet and play games, etc. If you dont have internet, watch DVDs on it. Also there are lots of good emulators. It's much easier to look like your working if youre on a note book computer.

Well we are no longer allowed to bring our laptops due to what they call security issues. As far as games I have to be extra careful since I sit in the main isle of the call center so playing emulators is out of the question. Me and a co-worker were thinking about getting DS since we can kind a pass it off as like a PDA if we get questioned.

 

[Lonestar]

it's a "bit" better at work, only doing 9's/10's 5 days a week, though we're in our "dead period". We plan to ramp up production and probably hit for sure 10-12's a day, and probably a full Saturday.

Which is still better than 2 years ago, where I worked every day of the Summer. Except July 4th. And those days were over 12 hours easy, into 14-15 hour days for 3 months straight. I'm pretty sure that's why my brain feels wierd now.

 

[BigJonsson]

My shifts can be anywhere from 7.5-13 hours (once or twice a season do I work 13)

 

[Kave_Man]

During christmas time I was doing usually 12 to 13 hours on certain days.

 

[captmcblack]

My last job in QA for a game company in NY had me regularly doing 10 hour shifts on a good day.

 

[Tarazet]

I did a couple of 10 hour shifts a week when I was selling cars, but that was nothing compared with the fleet guy who was there from 9-9 every single day. I swear, he does absolutely nothing else but sell cars.

 

[pestul]

My buddy Cory will sometimes pull 16hr days working at a club. The most I've ever worked in one shift was 14hrs.. almost worked 24hrs because a dude didn't show up though.

 

[MoxManiac]

I put a little piece of sticky paper over the clock on the windows desktop so I don't watch the clock. That didn't really work at my last job though since there was a big ass clock on the far wall in front of me that I could see from my cube.

 

[AntoneM]

wait, you're talking about being at work and asking how to waste time? Don't you have some work to do? You know, the boss actually likes it when you approach him/her about needing more work to do.

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

Staples.
Some days were absolutely brutal.
ESPs can bite me.

and I do believe the standing was the worst part of it :lol.