How do you get through your work day?

I sit in my office, spread some important looking papers over my desk, spend the next 7 hours intermittently picking each of them up and staring blankly at them for a few minutes before placing them back on my desk in a different arrangement, I do this for 7 hours and then it’s time to go home.
I use to work with a woman who's desk was just full of paper giving the impression that she was a very busy woman , when she was off one day I dumped half of this paperwork in the bin when she came back she never even noticed it was gone.
 

'checking out'.

Bit conflicted on this. Way back when, the enthusiasm for the job (contract) usually won through, it meant carrying a lazy good for nothing fool occasionally but it could be a laugh. The end of the contract was always a bit tricky, because with the end in sight there'd be a downing of tools and a very thorough (slow!) wrapping up of the job. Some firms knew the game, and some pretended to be holier than Jesus. The firms and officials we didn't like we'd have fun with, especially when they tried to single out one of the workers. Staff jobs were another matter, did they ever want a quart of blood. This is where taking the pish came into it's own, balls up an expensive job a few times and get them talking replacements, especially when there is a deadline. Oh the fun to be had.
The key to this last bit is having something lined up, some wannabe hitler of a manager? be as much of an underhand prick to him as possible when you've a new start a few days away, egg him on to sack you, especially if they'd struggled to get you in in the first place. This is where online reviews have become key... "worked here between X and Y, dealt with manager JW* (always initials, never names) got to say one of the worst atmospheres to work in ever, unrealistic demands, casing you for work done quicker than possible, none stop barrage of negativity, know why they struggled for a replacement to the last poor soul they brow beat out of the door, better off on the dole than in this nightmare, avoid avoid avoid" (leave it anonymous, but clearly as a reaction to your leaving). Spread this around the online review sites, or better yet, the company homepage and see if you can illicit an email or for more lols a phone call in reply. Now sometimes they might be a bit peeved and try to delay paying up your last paycheck, having the accounts dept email and phone number here helps, especially when you casually throw 'industrial tribunal' into the conversation. Don't forget once you sign up (staff job) you are earning holiday time in hand from minute one, you have a right to this and there is no shame repeatedly reminding them of this fact.

I have utterly hated and despised some of the morons that have tried to tell me how to do a job, I've got the skills and experience pal, that's why I'm on the big bucks, if this is so bleedin' easy, you 'kin do it!

Enjoy it as much as you can, rinse it, you are a long time retired, the camaraderie in the trenches, the finding impossible solutions, succeeding in spite of the know nothings, jobs done well, satisfaction, and going the bar at the end of the day.

*for instance.
 
My job goes in peaks and troughs of being really busy and fairly quiet. I've just through a 4 month spell of being really busy, always having something to do and never having a chance to get bored but we got the bid out about 3 weeks ago and I've been pretty quiet since then.
Luckily I work from home a couple of days a week so I don't have to look busy on those days. When I'm in the office I just have a lot of coffee breaks, chat to people, doomscroll on Tiktok and have a long lunch.
 

I work from home now and when I’m not travelling, I find a cheeky go on the PlayStation at lunch sets me up for the afternoon.
When I used to be office based, I had an 11 o’clock break for my daily dump. This was fine for years until the company hired a Muslim guy. If I was late going on my break, it coincided with him going to the bogs to wash his hands for prayer time. Many times I stayed in the trap until he finished and left in order to avoid the walk of shame
 
Do you have a job that you don't particularly enjoy but still go to pay the bills? What tricks do you use to get through your work day so you don't get depressed.
I sit there hating everyone I work with, everyday. I do half their jobs for them because they are complete morons. And they are all Liverpool fans.

But I find the job piss easy due to my immense brain power, it pays relatively well and is 10 minutes from home!
 
Quite like my job most of the time but can be made an absolute nightmare because of the absolute dead heads they employ and my main objective of each day is to do the absolute bare minimum
 

I think you just need to discretely find something to hold you attention in between doing the bare minimum you can realistically get away with.

Today for example, I came across this TikTok which I think maybe spend 4 possibly 5 hours watching hover and over trying to figure out quite what I was looking at.


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