know the feeling...I worked for a year in Sainsbury's (internet shopping depatment!), and we came up with many ways to alleviate the boredom...
Late at night, when our department had nothing to do, we would get sent over to raw meat, the only department with no manager...
The guy there had been on raw meat for 8 hours, stacking shelves, and was understandably bored, so we used to play games like 'mince curling', where we had to slide packets of mince along the floor of the aisle onto one particular tile which had an advert for Mini Cheddars on it (challenging but hugely entertaining... made the time fly!)
Other favourites included switching shelf labels, spending hours putting the wrong products in entirely the wrong places, putting 'free gifts' in the orders we were completing, and generally fucking up the well oiled Sainsbury's machine. Fun when your store manager thinks he's in charge of a crack team of ruthlessly efficient commandos, rather than the bored, lazy, spiteful students who actually work there.
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Late at night, when our department had nothing to do, we would get sent over to raw meat, the only department with no manager...
The guy there had been on raw meat for 8 hours, stacking shelves, and was understandably bored, so we used to play games like 'mince curling', where we had to slide packets of mince along the floor of the aisle onto one particular tile which had an advert for Mini Cheddars on it (challenging but hugely entertaining... made the time fly!)
Other favourites included switching shelf labels, spending hours putting the wrong products in entirely the wrong places, putting 'free gifts' in the orders we were completing, and generally fucking up the well oiled Sainsbury's machine. Fun when your store manager thinks he's in charge of a crack team of ruthlessly efficient commandos, rather than the bored, lazy, spiteful students who actually work there.