King of skiving
In a company where everyone skived, no work happened for at least 10 minutes before or after any official break and we were all waiting to clock off 15 minutes early, I managed to skive the most. This was in a furniture factory in Tadcaster about six or seven years ago, having been sent by an agency to load trucks etc and me being of the stick like build I immediatly got given the job of wraping the smaller units from six different production lines, hence alot of walking around between the six lines and more importantly I always had an excuse for not being where the boss was. I didn't do more than 2 hours work a day.

Even when the managment knew I didn't have much to do I still managed to skive off by tidying up the stock areas. Fifty or more 2 meter high cabinets that needed to be organized, or find the right one, sometimes 3 or 4 of us would waste an hour or so in there.

The best was when the factory shut down for their 2 week summer holiday but I ended up working when it was mostly maintenence staff. "Take that van and clear out the loading bays" no other traffic on site and not my van, I spent the best part of 2 days just prating about in the van doing about an hours work a day.

Tip: don't do hand brake turns in a transit luton, they go onto two wheels very easily.

No apologies for length: if it's too long don't read it.
(Mookfish, Thu 28 Apr 2005, 2:45, Reply)