How to pass time at work?

Cian92 · 29-03-2012 10:28PM #1

So I work in a factory, doing the same repetitive job all day. We have the radio playing, and that's about it. No phones, or ipods allowed. It is automated work, standing in front of a machine.

It is unbelievably boring, does anybody have any interesting ways to pass the time?

Sometimes we play I-spy, other times noughts and crosses (we have to wait for dust to form on the machine first).

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 29-03-2012 10:35PM

Cut a hole in the bottom of your pocket..

and fumble the day away!

hairyprincess · 29-03-2012 10:36PM

Compare willies

Mr.Crinklewood · 29-03-2012 10:37PM

Guess the amount of times the DJ will say a certain word.

Mint Sauce · 29-03-2012 10:37PM

Do some work?

Jarren · 29-03-2012 10:37PM

Working

Ghandee · 29-03-2012 10:38PM

Do something constructive (like the job you're being paid to do?)

wp_rathead · 29-03-2012 10:39PM

thinking of ways to pass time

Where To · 29-03-2012 10:39PM

Eat your watch . . . .

Wait for time to pass

Mr Benevolent · 29-03-2012 10:39PM

irish-stew wrote: »

Do some work?

Do something constructive (like the job you're being paid to do?)

Who actually works in work? Not me anyway.

Immaculate Pasta · 29-03-2012 10:41PM

Just say that you're very upset and you don't feel well. Then go and sit on the toilet for the entirety of your shift spending the time fapping/listening to music/crapping/playing on your phone :cool:

clappyhappy · 29-03-2012 10:41PM

Time how long you can hold your breath for and try to better it again again and again.......

Cian92 · 29-03-2012 10:41PM

Well the work is done, but it could be done by a trained monkey. It involves no use of your head.

The guessing what word the DJ will say next could be a good one

We often try and guess what song will be played next, or how many times the "new one from Katy Perry" will be played in the day.

some random drunk · 29-03-2012 10:43PM

Cian92 wrote: »

So I work in a factory, doing the same repetitive job all day. We have the radio playing, and that's about it. No phones, or ipods allowed. It is automated work, standing in front of a machine.

It is unbelievably boring, does anybody have any interesting ways to pass the time?

Sometimes we play I-spy, other times noughts and crosses (we have to wait for dust to form on the machine first).

What kind of holiday camp is this?! In my old office job we worked in silence, not even allowed to talk to each other.

WoollyRedHat · 29-03-2012 10:43PM

If you have swivel chairs, race your colleagues.. or play jousts with them, with brushes for lances, then you can turn it into the Fun Factory

Or have a rave

Factories love Raves

paddydriver · 29-03-2012 10:45PM

Aim to get your Posts count to 10k by end of April

General General · 29-03-2012 10:48PM

some random drunk wrote: »

What kind of holiday camp is this?! In my old office job we worked in silence, not even allowed to talk to each other.

Not true, we just didn't like you very much... We chatted when you went out of the room.

FruitLover · 29-03-2012 10:49PM

Try to think of ways you can get yourself a better job.

Vandy West · 29-03-2012 10:50PM

If the radio has a cd buy a audio book to learn german. Can curse your current boss right in front of him and should be handy in the future.

mikemac1 · 29-03-2012 10:51PM

name game

Start with letter A and everyone name a band

Abba
The Beatles
Coldplay
.....and so on

You can't just make things up, someone else needs to back you up for obscure bands

A good game can last the morning
Switch to films in the afternoon

I too worked as an assembly line monkey on a factory floor and this kept me and the lads from going insane with the repetitive work

WoollyRedHat · 29-03-2012 10:53PM

Vandy West wrote: »

If the radio has a cd buy a audio book to learn german. Can curse your current boss right in front of him and should be handy in the future.

Or buy a stereo and then burn a cd with various loud explosion noises that play on a loop and turn volume up high.

mikemac1 · 29-03-2012 10:54PM

Do you have a warehouse?

Formula One with the forklifts :cool:

Ready, set, three laps of the warehouse and twice around the yard, GO

wandatowell · 29-03-2012 10:55PM

If i get bored in work i spend some time imagining what I would say if I was being interviewed on Sky Sports after scoring the winning goal in the Champions League final.

jesus................

29-03-2012 10:58PM

Light cigarettes and roll them under someone elses desk, blame each other, who ever has to pay the fine, loses .

mark renton · 29-03-2012 10:59PM

Put tomatoes in the microwave

nibtrix · 29-03-2012 11:02PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

name game

Start with letter A and everyone name a band

Abba
The Beatles
Coldplay
.....and so on

You can't just make things up, someone else needs to back you up for obscure bands

A good game can last the morning
Switch to films in the afternoon

I too worked as an assembly line monkey on a factory floor and this kept me and the lads from going insane with the repetitive work

There's loads of "round the table" games like this; someone starts a story and makes up 2 or 3 lines and the next person continues it and so on, or someone says a sentence and everyone has to add a rhyming sentence etc.

gustafo · 29-03-2012 11:05PM

Go to the bog and sniff a few lines of charley and laugh your tits off for the rest of the day.

du Maurier · 29-03-2012 11:12PM

The anally retentive responses suggesting to 'do some work'..blah blah are inspiring to say the least:pac:. No, I mean that..

jos28 · 29-03-2012 11:20PM

If you are working with non-Irish people, get them to teach you a new language (a genuine language, not just rude words)

mikemac1 · 29-03-2012 11:22PM

Just go dossing OP

If something goes then blame the guy who can't speak English
Ah Tibor, how many times have you saved my butt

cruizer101 · 29-03-2012 11:25PM

Footballer name game:

Name a footballer eg. Wayne Rooney, next person has to name a footballer begining with first letter of surname R so Ryan Giggs next person G and so on, can't rename a footballer

This can be done with others too like actors or politicians or whatever.
Can also do animals by just using the last letter of the animal Cow Walrus Seal Lion etc etc

One two guys in my works used to play, i never bothered as was **** at films:
Name two actors, you have to connect them by linking through films for example. Catherine Zeta Jones and Tom Hanks, Catherine was in Oceans 12 with Julia Roberts who was in Charlies Wilsons war with Tom Hanks. When they used to do it they could have linked through 10 films or so, but you could give it a go anyway.

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