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[Em]

We have a sofa in our conference room and I totally nap on that thing a few times a week. Sometimes if there are people in there I just put my feet up on my desk, lean back, and take a snooze during my lunch break. But see above post re: the level of etiquette in this office.

[YojimboMonkey]

Five minutes sitting on a chair in a dark server room with my eyes closed was insufficiently naplike

[RoyBiggins]

Man. Sounds like you are having an extra rough one today, Jim.  Hang in there.

[C of heartbreak]

The etiquette here is to find a good hiding place and make sure you don't disappear for too long.

My boss just handed me a stack of papers from several months ago that need to be signed (by somebody--anybody). I'm debating whether to put them through the shredder.

[fishjim]

Five minutes sitting on a chair in a dark server room with my eyes closed was insufficiently naplike

My server room naps were never satisfactory. Probably because everyone knew I was too junior to really know what I was doing in there.

[peacocks]

when I worked at a nature center in a park I would go into the big teaching room with the animals and lie in the middle of the floor. No one ever caught me.

There's a couch in the room right before my boss's office but I don't believe anyone has actually placed any part of their body on it before.

[peacocks]

I'm the only one in my office today! Aside from a couple surveyors in the other wing.

I could be naked, asleep, drinkin beers, doing all my work on the GIS computer, not doing work, playing video games, chatting on the phone about intense personal matters, eating a chocolate cake off the copier, learning the choreography for the new beyonce videos, reading, moving everything in the office to the opposite side, sitting in the boat in the lab pretending to row, making 1,000 paper cranes, memorizing monologues in Anna Christie, or gathering all the cats that hang out by the building next door and having a cat party at my desk.

[fishjim]

Cat party!

[monkeypants]

Naked cat party!

[G.C.R]

You know, it gets damn disheartening when you greet every customer with a friendly hello and a good half of them don't even respond, because, I dunno, you're sitting behind a counter and therefore not really a human being? I know this is minor as customer service compaints go, and not everyone wants to talk while they're getting a movie, but man, it is straight up rude to just ignore someone who has said hi to you.

[Good Intentions]

I am very poor at present, but fuck working in retail ever again in my time on this earth.

[jebreject]

I feel like I've reached some sort of critical mass w/r/t firing people (er, sorry, "releasing"), where if I have to do it ever again, I'll have irreparably damaged my soul. Today was one of the most stressful days I've had in a very long time, and left m vaguely wondering whether auto-defenestration isn't maybe a good idea. BUT HEY, AT LEAST I GOT A FIFTY DOLLAR BONUS

[fishjim]

You know, it gets damn disheartening when you greet every customer with a friendly hello and a good half of them don't even respond, because, I dunno, you're sitting behind a counter and therefore not really a human being? I know this is minor as customer service compaints go, and not everyone wants to talk while they're getting a movie, but man, it is straight up rude to just ignore someone who has said hi to you.

I am very poor at present, but fuck working in retail ever again in my time on this earth.

Ugh, hugs to both of you. Retail is the worst. I did it in high school and college and have been running the fuck away ever since.

[peacocks]

I have 3 more wells to purge and only an hour and a half before its dark. I don't want to work tomorrow!

[fishjim]

I wish I knew how to purge a well.

[jm]

oh my god I have the next eleven days off.  you know that feeling where you've been tense for so long that the realization that you no longer need to be tense makes you feel like you're going to drop to the floor like a marionette?  yeah, that's happening right now.

[peacocks]

we did it all tonight. It is 9pm and I just got home after working for 13 hours but we friggin did it. Now I just have to stay awake at this girly sleep over I'm going to where a lot of booze will be drank and cookies be ate. I haven't had a sleepover like this since high school.

[Nick Ink]

done! two weeks off frommmm........NOW!   

[El_Josharino]

Goddamn, where do I get a job that gives 2 weeks off for holidays? I have Monday off and was pretty excited a few days ago when they decided they'd give us Jan. 2nd off as well.

[mixed cats]

Next week is always the busiest week of the year, and we have off Monday. And I had to take a half day Tuesday for a doctor visit.bI took a half day today anyway, so now I won't be at work from 12:30pm today until 12:30 Tuesday and that rules. Except for the part where I'll have to manufacture 30 devices in three and a half days. OVERTIME!

[Nick Ink]

Goddamn, where do I get a job that gives 2 weeks off for holidays? I have Monday off and was pretty excited a few days ago when they decided they'd give us Jan. 2nd off as well.

Sorry to hear that. I'd go round the twist if I didn't get the odd break from it. I am very fortunate though - I get 40 days plus public holidays per year. But if it's any consolation, you probably earn 2 or 3 times what I do.

[jebreject]

Goddamn, where do I get a job that gives 2 weeks off for holidays? I have Monday off and was pretty excited a few days ago when they decided they'd give us Jan. 2nd off as well.

This is all we get off, but I'm using the last of my vacation time to take off Tuesday and Wednesday as well, so I get a nice five day weekend followed by a two day week followed by another three day weekend.

Two weeks sounds pretty rad, though I imagine I'd start to settle into that whole routine where I never bother changing out of my pajamas or showering or leaving the house that I get into whenever I go a while without working.

[El_Josharino]

Goddamn, where do I get a job that gives 2 weeks off for holidays? I have Monday off and was pretty excited a few days ago when they decided they'd give us Jan. 2nd off as well.

Sorry to hear that. I'd go round the twist if I didn't get the odd break from it. I am very fortunate though - I get 40 days plus public holidays per year. But if it's any consolation, you probably earn 2 or 3 times what I do.

Hot damn, I thought my 15 days plus holidays (which is just the one day of the holiday, generally) was pretty decent. Next you're going to tell me that you get a wage increase every once in awhile!

[clare]

Because Christmas is on a Sunday, mon and tues are both public holidays (yay, Boxing Day!) which means that my one day a week job which is usually on Tuesday is on Thursday this week. The bloke has from today until after new years. Yay govt jobs. And that's the US govt. So Jeb, there's your answer. Get a govt job and your holidays are pretty sweet.

[jebreject]

Pretty bad time to get into government