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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Guilt (or lack of)I used to work in a large team of computery type people. It was one of those places where you didn't have your own desk, you sat wherever, thus I was always at a different computer every day.
It was SO boring. The computers were old, and slow, and all I did was stare at html. But there was literally no way to skive. The boss wandered round the desks keeping an eye on us, and there were were no radios/windows/talking allowed. Hmm.
So I figured a great way to skive - kick the power cable out the back of whichever crappy computer I was on, thus enabling me to stand up, fiddle with the wires etc. Oh well, it was something to do.
Sadly the story doesn't end here. After kicking the power cable out of a computer a few times ('it must have dust in the power supply...'(what!!?)) the computer stopped working. Oops.
Three fried computers later, the office was considering getting a whole new suite of them. Hah.
And then I pointed out to my boss that none of the computers were PAT tested and I'm lucky not to have been electrocuted, I could sue, blah... Cue panic and large rectifying cost.
No apologies for size or amount of evil.
(, Fri 29 Apr 2005, 2:04, Reply)
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