2QUIK6 said:
k, hope my old boss doesn't read this
that was 15 years ago.
Well, was just in the place last week, they are going out of business after 40+ years in the grocery business. That's where my wife and I met, we'll miss Swaims grocery
On another note, I just found this list me and some other co-ops at IBM put together..it was called 101 ways to screw off at IBM...there's only 88 entries though...these were things we observed othersa doing at IBM to waste time and productivity...this was about 14-15 years ago too. I just read thru the list for the first time in over 10 years or so..and there's some very funny ones on here
1. Play Baseball with paper wads
2. Play Basketball
3. Shoot rubber bands
4. Shoot clips
5. Spit water between teeth
6. Play Nibbles
7. Do homework
8. Talk about women
9. Go outside to look around and take a break
10. Go to vending area
11. Bitch about other people goofing off
12. Throw paper airplanes
13. Move your office
14. Call your friends
15. Read the MDQ screen
16. Play Gorilla game
17. Read newsletters passed around
18. Order manuals
19. Go to a class that you do not need
20. Take secretary to lunch
21. Play solitare
22. Feed the fish
23. Take a smoke break 20 times a day
24. Go to cafeteria for breakfast
25. Jack with dog outside
26. Go get yogurt
27. Go talk to friends at their office
28. Act like you are working on a problem.
29. Clean your office or desk, as if you did work to get it dirty.
30. Act like you want to review/help on a problem when you do not know jack.
31. Act like you want to learn, but you do not give a damn.
32. Eat in your office when you have already eaten lunch.
33. Make a list a goof offs
34. Order supplies that you do not need.
35. Send messages to others to annoy them.
36. Hold luncheons/dinners to brown nose.
37. Take library courses, which you do not learn a damn thing from.
38. Hold meetings in which nothing gets accomplished.
39. Have a department luncheon to find out whose in the department.
40. Generate graphs for call backs to present to others
41. Waste time to get other employees to do things for you.
42. Throw books around
43. Get room ready for upper level management
44. Ask employee's about their weekend as if you care
45. Take apart office furniture to better suit your tastes
46. Rearrange office
47. Print off usless documents
48. Talk about last nights T.V. shows
49. Draw pictures on white board so others think you do work
50. Think about what to do for lunch
51. Copy things that are not needed
52. Pass newsletters around which nobody reads
53. Find newsletters to pass around for nobody to read
54. Go outside for coffee break
55. Talk to friends, or even people you don't know outside
56. Balance your checkbook
57. Pay your bills
58. Call about repair of home items
59. Check on how other employees are doing today, as if you care
60. Make fun of Dave and Willis the fag baits
61. Walk around and look in the co-op office
62. Plant trees and other plants that will just die
63. Wash windows when it is about to rain
64. Stand outside and wave to employees coming to work
65. Stand around saying "Have a good day" to all employees leaving work
66. Rake the rocks just so people can walk over them again
67. Blow leaves all around while paying close attention to women going by
68. Try to catch the fish in the fountain
69. Walk with buddy to pick up tapes in hope of seeing the "blond"
70. Go to copy room with co-worker when help is not needed
71. Change phonemail geeting constantly
72. Hand place large rocks under bridge as dumping them is not good enough
73. Create codes for RETAIN that no one follows
74. Hold classes on RETAIN, and teach the new codes for the month
75. Create department execs that no one uses, or rarely uses
76. Work crossword puzzles
77. Update and read your address book
78. Do church work when other things need to be done
79. Look out windows
80. Work on customer problems that are not related to your product
81. Talk about what happened at lunch after you return to office from lunch
82. Talk about this list
83. Have an ice cream social outside
84. Look for another job that you can goof off more at, or get away from goofs
85. Argue about stupid little things
86. Do blow off work instead of real needed work or taking calls
87. Pass your problems to others so you can goof off
88. When you do work, others must re-do it, requiring twice as much time.