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Level 3 boredom alert !!!!!
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Originally posted by rootsnall View PostLevel 1 - normal everyday IT boredom
Level 2 - monday morning, friday afternoon, and hangover levels of IT boredom
Level 3 - in physical and mental pain and would normally pack up quietly, send resignation email and walk, but wife, kids, etc preventing this normal and rational response.
Suggestions please ?
Plot your yearly accounts, both personal and business, mortgage paid off, any kind of financial masterpiece which will (a) remind you of why you are at work, and (b) keep you busy and consumed for a good ocuple of hours!The pope is a tard.Comment
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Originally posted by alreadypacked View PostBut I am not sure which is worse, boredom or countdown feaver.
24 days to go, can't get any work done.
Countdown fever is good, put a chart on the wall for all to see and pee off your soon to be former colleagues. Also nobody will notice a missing 24 days of IT contract work.Comment
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Originally posted by SallyAnne View PostThis is what Excel spreadsheets are for.
Plot your yearly accounts, both personal and business, mortgage paid off, any kind of financial masterpiece which will (a) remind you of why you are at work, and (b) keep you busy and consumed for a good ocuple of hours!Comment
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Originally posted by rootsnall View PostThat's a level 2 response.
Erm, I can only suggest the toilets for a spot of "hows your father" on your own thenThe pope is a tard.Comment
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Relieve the boredom by having a pointless circular argument with one of the members. Remember to abuse them when you can't be bothered. I suggest you start in the basement where
Dimprawn runs the House price/BTL desk
SASguru the random insult, self abuse, and gay affairs deskThe court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostDimprawn runs the House price/BTL desk
SASguru the random insult, self abuse, and gay affairs desk
Now THAT ought to get things started!!
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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I once toyed with the idea of creating a "Salary Counter", a little gadget (or small PC program lurking in the taskbar) that you could configure with your hourly rate and would then quietly tick up the £'s.
At least then, when you're bored, you could sit and watch the counter and think of the money rolling in...Comment
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Originally posted by SallyAnne View PostOh right, I see!
Erm, I can only suggest the toilets for a spot of "hows your father" on your own thenComment
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