seeing that my summer job is in a factory.. ok a warehouse/plant... I work.. and I work... and I work. I bring my radio to prevent my mind from getting bored. I'll take the occasional Bathroom break (when I'm near the air-conditioned one as there is no air conditioning in warehouses), and every now and then go wander off and talk to someone. There are two different job sets that I do... one that they can gauge how fast I'm working and one that they can't. I usually do the latter, and that reason alone is one of my fav. reasons to do the latter. :D I work hard still, but I can slack and talk to people and not have my super yell (even though she does jack shit.. I dunno how my super got into said position). The first set? I have to scan something every 5 minutes MINIMUM or else my super will easily notice my slack. The second though.. everyone does it differently and thus you cannot see that I've been idle for 45 minutes..... because 2 minutes later I could then "magically" have 200 parts pulled.. I merely spent the last 44 minutes pulling all the parts. SO yeah, Music, occasional bathroom.. I usually save it until after last break and call it my "Obligatory Bathroom Break" :D, and the occasional 2 minute chit chat.

I read a book most of the time or do a little web surfing. Sure makes the day go slow when you got shit to do and are bored as hell

well right now im a dish pig, it sucks, but i wille eventually move to the kitchen i guess, only been there about a month, when im bored i go to the bar and get a drink or get some food from the restaurant..

my last job, i worked till i was done, though if i was bored while in the warehouse i would go to the back and do nothing (our warehouse was rather cool due to cement floors and shade)

and when i was driving out in the trucks if i would be bored i would stop somewhere and grab a snack... on one occasion i stopped at a mall and exchanged an OCC hat of mine... theres not alot of trucks parking in mall parking lots... i kinda parked across like 8 spots on a major angle.. ohwell... if i wanted to waste time, i would either go where i knew thered be traffic backups, or just take a back road.

music while driving was always great... and a/c... and food... i miss that part of my lst job .. oh and the money... bah... stupid ass boss bieng an ass and making me quit.. bah humbug

Bored? Rarely. When I have nothing to do (as I said, rarely), I will usually go home. See, in the public service we have this amazing thing called flex time, and I currently have about 30 hours up my sleeve. So I figure I'm owed a couple of early minutes.

Plus I can only access government web sites, which is probably a good thing.

I surf here, slashdot, fark, my local news station's website and cnn. After that, it's try to look busy. Everyone that passes by COULD see my monitor, so I can't play flash games or anything.

But, I also work my ass off when needed. Generally, if Im not busting ass, Ill go thru those sites for 15 mins every 1-1.5 hours and see whats new.

I email and IM throughout my day. Kind of fit my work around it :D

Fortunately my job gives me free time a lot...I run two forum boards of my own and come here when I want to actually read intelligent posting :)

I browse message boards and play freecell. :thumbsup:

Short brakes for TFP and Fark.

This is what I don't understand. I'm not a professional and I've never worked in an office. How do you manage to spend a half hour a day on forums, looking at porn, reading a magazine... and not get fired? Don't you have some kind of quota or monitoring?

We're on flex time too, I love it. Plus, it ups the worker morale ten-fold rather than everyone having to clock in/clock out at a certain time.

This thread scares me. Why do so many of you get bored at work. I would love to find out what that is like. No I would not because my pay is tied to my productivity.

Where do you work at???

I am a physician. My pay is what I collect minus what I pay out.

ah, well different fields are going to have different levels of work and free time mixed in them. I hope to one day be at the point that I don't really have free time to get bored at work, but as a student that time still hasn't come.

My job sucks since I have lots of free time, but have to look like I'm working the whole time.

I make lists of things I want or thing I want to do when I get off work.
I walk around the store and practice towel snaping and knife flipping.
I used to bring my SP and play it in the back room but that got me in trouble.
I sometimes listen to my mp3 player, but then I can't hear the ould speaker.

They definately DO NOT track my usage so I cruise the internet all day, some days I am hellishly busy, some days not. There is also this really hot blonde that works right next to me for the summer who I have become super cool with so that ABSOLUTELY helps the time go by!

I browse the web, play battlefield 1942, watch movies, research anything I dont know but I'm currious about. Pretty much whatever as long as I dont get bored. A day at work with nothing to do is the worst.

-HGClown

Well, I work next to a liquor store, so my 2/3 co-workers make bets on what beer or any other drink they are going to get and we see what they have when they come out.