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Someone here at work just remarked that the working day 'goes too quickly'. Now I've been here for about eight hours now, and it feels like eight years. Do you hate people like this, or do they have a point?

Also, why does time crawl when I'm in the office, but the moment I set foot into the real world it will speed to a blur?

― Paul Strange, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes i hate people like that. but, relative to the time vortex opened up by too much work to do in eight hour period, i often find myself thinking that work is over too fast. at the same time, i don't wanna stay.

― jess, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can depend on how busy I am - how much interweb/email distraction I get. This morning flew past. This afternoon crept along amazingly slow due to mad paranoid health fear which ILE has diagnosed as L-U- V. Time spent at home often = blank time.

I dislike Enthusiastic Graduates in fact ANYONE who says, oh there's not enough working hours to do all my work ho ho I am such a good worker... GET A LIFE.

― Sarah, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can count the days when the day wasn't long enough to complete all my work on the fingers of one hand.

The idea that the working day passes too quickly is preposterous.

― Sean, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Implying that the working day goes "too" quickly is what scares me most, these fools actually want to stay longer and do more work. WTF?

― jel, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Feh. It's the weekend that goes too quickly.

― Lesley Higgins, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On a good day, school goes quickly, but it's still a relief when I get some free time. On a bad day like today it never ended, and I'm on a brief break from homework so this evening is going to stretch out too. I think it's your subconscious time perception facility being masochistic. (there's science for you.)

― Maria, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

subconscious time perception facility being masochistic = better than vortex of the totality (or whatever the fuck it is.)

maria trumps mark s in new vs. old school incomprehensibility shocker.

― jess, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's someone like that in this office, around 4 he says "Wow, day went by quickly", ironically, since he spent most of the day moaning and complaining about being tired, compounding the felony.

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have realised why I think the mornings go quickly. HOORAH it is 11, I exclaim happily, soon it is lunchtime! Then I realise I only got in at 10.20. Bad things. I actually feel BETTER if I get up earlier, but then the working day passes soooo... slooowly.... but if I come in later, I realise I don't mind staying later at work at all. The place empties, no-one does anything... only dud is that I can't download MAME and play it all day on my BRILLIANT concealed computer screen. No-one can see what I'm doing!! Bwahahaha!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have absolutely no work at all. Nothing to do. So I am basically sitting at my desk, waiting to see if anything will come up, wasting my valuable time. It depresses me sometimes, how much time I lose to nothingness.

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It surprises me when people actually "do stuff" at their work. Yesterday was my first day where I seriously, did NOTHING. I didn't even enter ONE stat. No-one noticed and nothing has suffered. I don't think of it as nothingness. It's precious interweb and communication, enrichment time.

And soon it will be LUNCHTIME! To me, it is quite acceptable that lunch be the high point of a working day.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A productive day at work is one where you dont do *anything* but still manage to not be bored. Ie get loads of emails, write an article, post here, whatever, you down at the screen and before you know it you're on your way out the door. Being an hour or so late makes an enormous difference also.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My e-mail is now broken. Oh for heaven's sake. I am staring blankly at a computer screen...

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well my friend, remember your good friends at ILE, eBay, various other dodgy online shopping stores - and if it gets very bad - GET INTO BLOGS.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hold on, who am I kidding. It's lunchtime! Let's all go to the pub.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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