Workplace Boredom
There's got to be more to your working day than loafing around the internet, says tfi049113. How do you fill those long, empty desperate hours?
( , Thu 8 Jan 2009, 12:18)
There's got to be more to your working day than loafing around the internet, says tfi049113. How do you fill those long, empty desperate hours?
( , Thu 8 Jan 2009, 12:18)
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video editors are sly...
if you have ever worked with a video editor, you will know the interminably long time it takes for an edit to render... right?
Maybe.. maybe not...
An ex-boyfriend of mine used to make a screenshot of the avid screen at 40% or so rendered, and then load it up on the monitor while he sat and surfed the web on another machine.. or if he was feeling confident no-one would touch the computer take a long lunch.
If anyone came in and asked what he was up to he would simply nod at the monitor, and rolling his eyes say "waiting for the bloody render..."
( , Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:25, 1 reply)
if you have ever worked with a video editor, you will know the interminably long time it takes for an edit to render... right?
Maybe.. maybe not...
An ex-boyfriend of mine used to make a screenshot of the avid screen at 40% or so rendered, and then load it up on the monitor while he sat and surfed the web on another machine.. or if he was feeling confident no-one would touch the computer take a long lunch.
If anyone came in and asked what he was up to he would simply nod at the monitor, and rolling his eyes say "waiting for the bloody render..."
( , Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:25, 1 reply)
A similar thing
can be done with "compiling code".
Even better, you can use this "long compiling time" to argue a business case for a faster computer. Or a "faster video card" for video rendering if you've got a clueless boss...
( , Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:42, closed)
can be done with "compiling code".
Even better, you can use this "long compiling time" to argue a business case for a faster computer. Or a "faster video card" for video rendering if you've got a clueless boss...
( , Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:42, closed)
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