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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HandpolishingA standard fallback for all mechanical engineers.
1 - Keep a rag with you at all times.
2 - Do bugger all throughout your working day.
3 - When the gaffer approaches, vigorously rub your hands with the rag whilst inspecting the job, so you look like you've just finished a particularly difficult operation.
Slightly more alarmingly, during the very hot summer of 2003 a few guys I know got rather bored of repairing one of the turbines on a large nuclear power station in Southern England and "disabled" it with an angle grinder.
I'm not sure whether that's the ultimate skive or the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard....
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 29 Apr 2005, 23:43,
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