Remember the dot com boom?
Toward the end of it I had a job with a company that built websites for various companies. As the resident word monkey my job was to write all the content then give little mini-journalism courses to the client's staff so they could update things from then on.
After a while we had about 40 sites up and running, all the staff had been taught and I was in "overseeing" mode.
This meant I'd get into work with a novel, read until lunch time, go out for a couple of hours (usually the Hellenic club for cheap lunch and beers), come back and watch whatever movie the sysad had downloaded that morning, have a really long shit while doing a sudoku, then go home.
About once a week I'd take a 20-second call from someone wanting to know how to correctky use a compound adjective or whether they had an apostrophe in the wrong place.
After about three months of this I actually got so bored I engineered my own redundancy.
Because I was being paid by clients and a percentage of that was going to the company I was working for, the boss actually tried to talk me into staying.
( difficultchild, Thu 16 Sep 2010, 4:42, Reply)