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SHIT ON A STICK, it's 7.40! I used to stay late at work all the time. WHEN I LIKED THE WORK. I don't now, so I "work to rule" (= 9.15 to 5.30)

Only reason i'm still here is that Acrobat Distiller is playing with my head and has been for the last working week, and now I'm getting somewhere so i can't leave til I'm done.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what defines your working day. and please pity me, cos i'm fed up.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I am too. I've got a report which was due in today, I can do it but it's proved fiddlier than I thought and I'm not going to get it done after all tonight. Especially because I've spent most of the day on ILX.

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arrive here at 7:30am and promptly read the newspaper and eat breakfast. about 9:30 have my first cigarette of many breaks. Do nothing all day while Im supposed to be designing web pages. I do approx 15 minutes of real work a day. the rest is spent taking naps in my car, reading the paper, eating, ILX, listening to cd's. I leave at 3:15.

― Chris, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My working day is generally 9:30 to 6:30. The worst one I ever had was from 7:30AM to 11:30AM the next day. Bleah.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Especially because I've spent most of the day on ILX

>grins< Yes, I have to admit that is a part of the reason i feel i should stay. The thing i'm doing ties up my mac for hours on end (literally), so while waiting, rather than do something constructive (for Mr Murdoch), I piss about on ILE making facetious comments.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...and making way cool cat-tanks to destroy the world!! come on alan!! we want more graphics!!

― geeta, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yep, work to rule!

I'd like to be self-employed then I'd work to my own rules.

― jel --, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, I don't really make those pics. it's a con. Check out b3ta. where bored photoshop designers go for fun(tm).

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

page 280 now (out of 320 odd). watch it all fall apart at page 319. oo 282, speedy.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sad because I finished the course book. Now I can't check ILE nor read blogs while at work. Bummah.

― nathalie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kitten attack is 500 MB of pure mpeg fun. a must for every kitten/cat obsessed poster.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

500 KB of course.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whole day spent in the toilet playing Tetris

― dave q, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My new job is turning into a disaster. Lots of fiddly tedious pedantic work w/no real specs to work against in an area I'm unfamiliar with and have no desire to learn any more about. I also haven't been allowed to finish anything yet, as more important stuff keeps popping up all the time, so after only one month I've already got three unfinished projects sitting in my metaphorical intray. I am very unhappy about this.

― RickyT, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My job is ace. Get in 8.45 but more like .15. Noone say anything cos the academics don't kno or care when I start as long as I shuffle their bis of paper and my immediate superiors work FAR FAR AWAY. Check my work email, check my personal email, ILE, Blogs and surfin til the shock of waking up wears off. Say 10, 10.30. Bit of light work til lunch. Lots of pretty student girls wandrin around like LITTLE FLUFFY BUNNIES. Awwwww... Tinker whatever I'm writing, bit of music journ, a book review or fiction after lunch. Lovely. Bit more work, bit more web, home again home again jiggety jig at 4.30.

And the patisserie students brought up a tray of Petits fours on friday. And I do taste panels for RUM and GIN.

Actually some days I work quite hard, but the jobs a good one generally.

― misterjones, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Turn up, clock in, note how late I am, so I know how much time I have to make up at the end of the day, surreptitiously go to changing rooms and put on uniform. Technically, I should do this before clocking in, but I am a rebel and I don't care. Then wander to the counter, and do deli stuff to dull to go into (involves cheeses and various bits of pointless paperwork). Have a break around 10am, although it depends when I start. Then come back then go to lunch at 1.30, spend hour in canteen eating the food, reading and chatting to my colleagues. A hour of joy, I like to call it. Then maybe go to the office and do the code checks. Then work more then go home. It is dull to describe and read it, imagine actually living it for 9 hours. Plus I have to wear a hat.

― alix, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it's 10:15 and all I've done is read ILx, so yay. From late April to September nothing really happens here.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

It's 10.50pm on a Saturday night and while all my mates are in the pub I'm working. And will be all Sunday and all Sunday night and all Monday too. Ugh.

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

work won't love you back.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 21 August 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

12 hours to go till deadline. I'm going to need every minute. This sucks.

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What is this job?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a specialist finance mag. I'm the only staffer. I do everything from writing through subbing to layout. And since all the freelancers miss their deadlines and everything arrives at the last minute, I can only get it all done over the weekend before the printers' deadline. Which is midday Monday: 11 hours to go.

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Once it gets sent to the printers I have to stick around for hours until the proofs are up, so I can't even go home when I've sent it off.

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you need to just turn it into a dark confession of the soul.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Uncanny. I was already toying with the idea of filling some of the currently blank space with excerpts from Crime and Punishment just to see if anyone noticed.

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Allegedly staff at The New Yorker many years back filled up review space for plays and things that had been running forever with things like personal ads and excerpts from James Joyce, so I think precedent is on your side.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I call you as a witness at the industrial tribunal when I get fired for doing that?

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a mere presence on a computer board.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I'll just c&p some of ilx's greatest hits. Stories about Gear!'s roommate and Julian Cope – C or D... Clearly it's more interesting cos I'm here instead of working, ffs. Ok, I'm not looking at New Answers for an hour.

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ugh.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in till 11:30pm last Friday and seemed to suffer for it all weekend. I was in for another seven hours yesterday but was battling a headache all day.

I think there's a wall you reach, like distance runners (for me it was realising I still had another 70-odd Word templates to produce for translators at 9:15pm, and then zip them and write the emails and deal with the inevitable bounces), and once you're past that you could stay all night. But you pay for those extra 'free' hours.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 23 August 2004 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been awake for about 30 hours now and the files are going to the printers. The world seems slightly denser and bouncier and a bit crinkly. I really could do with some sleep. Even finding some lunch seems beyond me now.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 23 August 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go home

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you still at work, beanz?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

This is no fun at all. 9 hours to deadline. Still missing contributors' copy, which is unlikely to turn up before 9am. And by then I'll have barely the time to sub it let alone do all the other last minute fiddly nonsense.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 25 October 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Waaaaaaah

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 25 October 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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