Apart from when I used to do nights or 05.00 Sunday starts
I don't think I've ever had a job in which I had time to piss about on t'net all day. If I was that underemployed I'd have been looking for a better job.

ALT:- I'd ban myself for having a work ethic apparently discordant with other O/T persons.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:42, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Alright TD.
How are things going?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:43, Reply)

Stoopid busy
Been working like a darkie all week.

You?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:44, Reply)

Having a couple of days off.
Are you busy with your business or with the other lot?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:45, Reply)

My business
Leeds rental market has gone daft recently. The flat I was thinking of selling has been let out again at well over what would have been market rent 6 months ago.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:53, Reply)

So disaster has been avoided then!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:54, Reply)

Averted, not avoided
There was never going to be a disaster, just a change of plan.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:59, Reply)

Good stuff.
So have you stopped the other work you were doing?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:00, Reply)

It was a one-off
But I know there's consultancy work out there if I need it.

I'll carry on with the driving though, mainly because I enjoy it.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:05, Reply)

Ent they lazy?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:49, Reply)

Not the ones on my plantation
Although I've had to sell a few recently with cotton prices going down.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 17:57, Reply)

Same here.
Though that's mainly because I've hardly had any jobs with internet access, or even a computer for that matter.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:25, Reply)

I've had internet access
But I have this possibly old fashioned thing about working for a living.

I couldn't imagine doing a job that allowed so much slack that I could be on t'net all day. Maybe it's a generational thing. To me, if you're not busy you're in the wrong job.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:42, Reply)

Depends.
When I started my last job it was all rush and manic, then the programme got delayed by 18 months and for a bit there was a huge lull in the workload as we waited for policy decisions to be made. There was very little to do for a few months, to the point where a few of the team buggered off and got secondments.

Once the programme got underway though, it got extremely busy. Which was nice.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:50, Reply)

I did Sunday -Thursday nights
Sunday - Wednesday I was working flat out, but Thursday was dead. We used to shift crates of wine, and it wasn't unknown for a crate to get "damaged" on Thursday...
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:57, Reply)

And yet many folk see such jobs as aspirational.
It takes all sorts.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:52, Reply)

some of my temp jobs were
all about the trying waste time without looking like you were (if you worked too quick there would be no work left). Man, I was bored out of my head
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:52, Reply)

This ethic doesn't go down well at all on production lines.
As one 16 year old lad found out only too quickly in a joinery factory I worked in a few years back. He lasted two days.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:56, Reply)