Im Bored At Work...

[dairyou]

What different sites do you visit besides the Dis?

Deb

 

[jenny105]

http://www.livejournal.com
I have a blog there.

http://www.snopes.com
Urban Legends and myths...pretty interesting stuff. Have a whole category on Disney

http://www.bored.com
It will give you a list of a things to keep you occupied!!

 

[SplshMtn99]

What kind of job do you have that there isn't any kind of work you could be doing at work?

 

[dairyou]

I used to think the same thing at home when I wasn't working and surfing on the Dis. Now I have a job at the school district that is either feast or famine. We help out families that need support outside of education. For example homeless teens, pregnant teens, homeless kids, ect. There isn't anything to do if families don't need help right now. I know it will pick up soon as Thanksgiving and Christmas is right around the corner.

Believe me, I want to keep busy because I hate being bored. Thats why I left being a stay at home mom to teens. But...I'm happy that no one needs our help right now.

Deb

 

[DISUNC]

What different sites do you visit besides the Dis?

Deb

There are "DIFFERENT SITES"????????

 

[SplshMtn99]

I used to think the same thing at home when I wasn't working and surfing on the Dis. Now I have a job at the school district that is either feast or famine. We help out families that need support outside of education. For example homeless teens, pregnant teens, homeless kids, ect. There isn't anything to do if families don't need help right now. I know it will pick up soon as Thanksgiving and Christmas is right around the corner.

Believe me, I want to keep busy because I hate being bored. Thats why I left being a stay at home mom to teens. But...I'm happy that no one needs our help right now.

Deb

No cleaning to do?
No special projects you always wished you had time for?
Nothing to research on the web job related?
No info you could put together on a website or as handouts for clients to be helpful?
No photocopying?
No mailing lists?
No info bulletin board to clean up & bring up to date?
No desk to clean out?
No one else in the office you can help?
No supplies to order?


Sorry, I've always had some sort of a manager position. If I saw an employee with nothing to do, I would certainly FIND them something to do. Other employees resent seeing co-workers surfing while they are working too. Build moral & offer to help.

I also come from McDonald's training over 25 yrs ago, where the motto was "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean." Meaning, FIND SOMETHING TO DO.

Perhaps ask your boss? It will make you look MUCH better on your next review. Good luck.

Sorry to sound preachy, but surfing staff annoys me. Can you tell? lol

 

[jenny105]

I also come from McDonald's training over 25 yrs ago, where the motto was "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean." Meaning, FIND SOMETHING TO DO.

I hate this saying. I worked in a restaurant for almost 6 years and this was their motto. And my response was 'you're not paying me enough to do that' Sorry $2.13/hr when there are no customers coming in the door is not going to make me scrub the restaurant for you!

 

[SplshMtn99]

I hate this saying. I worked in a restaurant for almost 6 years and this was their motto. And my response was 'you're not paying me enough to do that' Sorry $2.13/hr when there are no customers coming in the door is not going to make me scrub the restaurant for you!

You don't have to take the saying literally. It just means that you are on the clock & surely you can find something productive to do. Hey, maybe a cleaner restaurant would mean more customers.

In different jobs, it means different things. If things are slow, what can you do to bring people in? What can you do now (like prepare ahead) for when it does get busy? I've worked in banking & in insurance, along with grocery stores & McDonald's. There is always something to do.

Be lucky you have a job. I've seen people get let go over stuff like this.

 

[GJM]

Trust me I use to be bored at my old job at times. I would also rather be busy then doing nothing. And there were times in the office were there really wasn't anything to do.

I use to go of course on the dis - also

mycoupons
pioneerwoman

I would read the newspaper on line also

I am sure there were others but I can't think of them now.

 

[dairyou]

No cleaning to do?
No special projects you always wished you had time for?
Nothing to research on the web job related?
No info you could put together on a website or as handouts for clients to be helpful?
No photocopying?
No mailing lists?
No info bulletin board to clean up & bring up to date?
No desk to clean out?
No one else in the office you can help?
No supplies to order?


Sorry, I've always had some sort of a manager position. If I saw an employee with nothing to do, I would certainly FIND them something to do. Other employees resent seeing co-workers surfing while they are working too. Build moral & offer to help.

I also come from McDonald's training over 25 yrs ago, where the motto was "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean." Meaning, FIND SOMETHING TO DO.

Perhaps ask your boss? It will make you look MUCH better on your next review. Good luck.

Sorry to sound preachy, but surfing staff annoys me. Can you tell? lol

Nope, nope, nope! I just came in 3 weeks ago for the previous employee. She was a messy, messy girl. I cleaned and organized and everything is ALL done. I've asked my supervisors and they don't have anythiing. It's the nature of our job.

BTW...it's almost 3:00 pm. Gotta go... my day is done....lol

 

[jenny105]

You don't have to take the saying literally. It just means that you are on the clock & surely you can find something productive to do. Hey, maybe a cleaner restaurant would mean more customers.

In different jobs, it means different things. If things are slow, what can you do to bring people in? What can you do now (like prepare ahead) for when it does get busy? I've worked in banking & in insurance, along with grocery stores & McDonald's. There is always something to do.

Be lucky you have a job. I've seen people get let go over stuff like this.

I didn't take it literally. I know it means "busy work" but when everything is clean and stocked for the next shift, what then? And there's nothing you can do to bring people in a restaurant during a shift other than waiving people off the highway. And being that my managers would ask me to find something to do while they were sitting down stuffing their own faces full of food never sat well with me.

It's backwards because management will send home cooks and hostesses (because they actually get paid a decent amount per hour) but not the servers because they don't get paid squat. And if it does get busy, you'll need the cooks more than a full wait staff. Overall, they never ask the wait staff's opinions on anything even though they practically run the restaurant. They're the ones dealing with customers yet they're the ones nobody listens to.