Anyone else's job a 'clock watching job' ?

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Ive been doing this job for about 2 years now and truth be told, Im bored to tears with it. I fell into this job after being made redundant from my last job, unfortunately the last one was a good job. Anyway, Im here now and as many will know, its not easy getting a new job at the moment.

If there are any Managers out there, about to read the next comment, you will probably disagree but in my job I am so bored, I have nothing to do and spend shifts starring at the clock as there is literally nothing to do. Most Managers always say 'theres always something to be done'. Some of you may think that sounds like a doddle but believe me when I say it, Id rather be doing something than just sitting there drinking way too much coffee doing nothing. The downside is, when there is nothing to do, I have to remain in the building, I cant go and do something else.

Dont get me wrong, sometimes it is busy but the ratio of quiet time to busy time is massively outwayed.

Does anyone else have a job where you clock watch and stare at every minute going past until the shift ends?

I find it makes me really lacking in motivation and energy.
 
only when I'm shadowing a shift technician.
Spending hour after hour waiting for a phone call, lucky i have enough games on my phone to last a lifetime
 
I'm a security guard, the longer I stare at the clock, the slower it goes, thankfully I have freeview and a PC in front of me
 
Flat out from 8am - 4pm, been like it for the last 2 years. Sometimes I get home and remember things I've forgotten to do at work and have to write it down or email myself.
 
Study. Study. Study.
Get better job. Feel better. Less boredom.
????
Profit?


Edit: I clock watch after 4pm sometimes. Too late in the day to start any big work, not enough energy to tackle the ball-ache small jobs!
 
My job is kind of like this, It is very quiet. I am used to having too much work to do and now i have a job where i have to fill the time. There is only so much work you can do on servers during the day, only so many updates etc. The downside is that the day goes slow but I do get some free time to do what i want, which is good. But my biggest problem is that the office manager sits next to me, he can't see my screen because i turned it, but he still there. I am used to talking **** for at least a few hours a day and i don't do that anymore. So it can get boring.
 
I read wikipedia on slow work days. It passes the time and I actually learn something. It's also one of the few websites not blocked at work.

But yeah, if I had to choose between being constantly over-worked and constantly under-worked, I'd much rather be overworked.
 
Jay794 said:
I'm a security guard, the longer I stare at the clock, the slower it goes, thankfully I have freeview and a PC in front of me
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Similar job and circs to me. At first I thought great, free access to the internet. But after a while, it soon gets boring and just sat in front a computer gave me headaches.
 
Not really. The phones keep me pretty busy, so I'm usually too busy working to stare at the clock.

Occasionally if the call volume is extremely low then it then becomes a boring drawn out experience. But thats not common.
 
Well I am a student, when I am not in a lesson I want to be in a lesson and when I am out of a lesson I want to be in a lesson.
Some days I have upwards of 6 hours without any lessons, it is really hard to get through that sort of timeframe without wasting 1 hour on the internet.
 
Not at all, there isn't enough hours in the day for me to finally say "I have nothing to do but clock watch", it helps that I also love my job. :)
 
Please let there be someone who works in horology quality assurance on here :D

I can't say I've ever had a job like that, but almost certainly I'd use the time to study and gain a useful qualification or skill - if you're being paid to 'do nothing' you may as well get paid to learn something useful.
 
I've had a couple of jobs where I've not had much to do - receptionist/admin on a building site for instance which meant moments where there was lots to do and vast swathes of time where I had nothing to do. I spent some of the time reading, some trying to learn a bit more French, some of the time just messing about on the internet and so on - my bosses at the time knew that I was underoccupied but as a temp they were happy for me to amuse myself provided I got done what was actually needed.
 
Middle of the month I run out of things to do, end of the month I have lots to do. Somehow people always choose the end of the month to ask me for other stuff as well.
 
I'm on-site IT support and have lots of days like this - today being one of them.
I'd much rather have something meaningful to do than sit there twiddling my thumbs waiting for a job to come in.
 
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