How I Skive Off WorkAdmit it. No one does any work these days. It's all looking at crappy websites with your thumb hanging over alt tab incase the boss walks over. Tell us your best methods of skiving, and any resultant incidents. (Maybe your slacking off has got someone sacked, or resulted in a large scale industrial accident.)
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rob, Wed 27 Apr 2005, 15:53)
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Skivving in a mental hospitalI once had a summer job with the maintenance dept. at a mental institution, as a painter. There were three of us there to help the two full-time painters. (Yes, they employed two full-time painters. Go figure) There was much slacking. I don't know if it counts as skivving, as it was encouraged by our boss. This was my introduction to the wonderful world of old union employees who hate their jobs and don't give a fuck.
The official work schedule: 8am to 4:30pm, with a two paid 15min breaks and a 30min unpaid lunchbreak.
What really happened: sign in at 8am. This was vitally important. Wouldn't want to be late. It's coffee time until at least 8:45 though, at which point we'd get our equipment together and go to where we were working that day. Our two coffee breaks were 30-45mins and lunch was 1-1.5 hours. This is what our bosses did and what we were encouraged to also do so that they wouldn't look bad. Actually, they pretty much didn't care what we did as long as we painted slightly less than them.
On my last day, I had been up all night drinking with friends, so I spent the better part of the workday sleeping on the roof.
As for the fact that it was in a mental hospital, well, that's probably better suited to other questions...
(, Wed 27 Apr 2005, 20:44, Reply)
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