How I Skive Off WorkAdmit it. No one does any work these days. It's all looking at crappy websites with your thumb hanging over alt tab incase the boss walks over. Tell us your best methods of skiving, and any resultant incidents. (Maybe your slacking off has got someone sacked, or resulted in a large scale industrial accident.)
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rob, Wed 27 Apr 2005, 15:53)
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Shift skivingI worked for a multinational fibre optics company as a so called 'technician'. Unfortunately they didn't pay me a technicians rate so I would skive as much as possible.
I was the only one who worked shifts in the office, 6am-2pm one week and 2pm-10pm the next, so I used to turn up 5 mins before anyone else on the early shift(about 8.25) and on thelate one I would leave just after the last person(about 6.15).
So I worked 29 hours one week and 22 hours the next instead of 40hrs. Used to bump into people from my office in the pub on Fridays and just tell them I was on the early shift. Nobody ever said anything in about 18months and I didn't even get made redundant when they got rid of non essential staff! One time I forgot to switch off a machine as I was at home watching TV and fried about 80 grands worth of lasers, bugger!
Ahhh those were the days.
(, Wed 27 Apr 2005, 19:59, Reply)
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