skiving was my job!
at my last job, it was pretty much well known that i had very slow periods where i would come into work and do literally nothing all day, then leave. so it was acceptable (and encouraged) for me to skive.

luckily i never got in any trouble, even when my monitor was facing everyone in the office. one time i was told to stop playing games (i would blatantly play yahoo pool or turbo solitaire... sometimes people would watch to see how well i'd do), but that was the extent of it. i did everything from working on my website to answering personal email to making sculptures out of chewed gum to drawing pictures in ms paint... no one said anything. every once in a while, i brought in a knitting project, and sat at my desk and knit.

something that was never really mentioned was instant messaging. it was probably more frowned upon than games, but i didn't give a toss. in the beginning, i poised my hand in the alt-tab position, but after a month or two i stopped hiding it. i'd log in and speak with my boyfriend whenever he was around, even when i was working. honestly, i'm relieved that no one ever asked what the "kill all humans" thing in the taskbar was (his nickname on msn). my bosses had to have seen it. maybe it frightened them.

i also used to go into the bathroom for 20 minute periods to sleep while sitting on a toilet.
( mayonessa, Fri 29 Apr 2005, 19:20, Reply)