What do you do when your bored at work?

I'm only ever bored during tedious staff meetings.
Otherwise I go home, as I'm never bored during my lessons :)
 
kitkat9933 said:
Well I guess it depends on your profession, but sometimes there is just no Jobs for me to do during the day, so I get time to burn.
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I occasionally get that, but there are always things you could be doing, just not things that you have to be doing.

I tend to knock about on here (my new job has increased my post count ridiculously), read Cracked articles, facebook, or just chat rubbish with the lads in the office. I'm pretty sure one of the guys jerks it in the disabled bog tbh, maybe try that?
 
Dimple said:
So am I and my youngest daughter just got a 2:1 in Sports Science with severe dyslexia but no spelling mistakes from us.
You are lazy, that is all.
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There are actually multiple levels in severity of dyslexia, it effects people differently.

When I was at Uni I was given an assistant to read through all my Coursework and Exams to check for things like grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. I could re-read oursework documents many times over and even thenI still wouldn't notice mistakes. But once people point out my mistakes I notice them instantly.

So I think it is quite ignorant to say just because it effected you one way, it will effect all others in the same fashion.
 
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kitkat9933 said:
There are actually multiple levels in severity of dyslexia, it effects people differently.

When I was at Uni I was given an assistant to read through all my Coursework and Exams to check for things like grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. I could re-read oursework documents many times over and even thenI still wouldn't notice mistakes. But once people point out my mistakes I notice them instantly.

So I think it is quite ignorant to say just because it effected you one way, it will effect all others in the same fashion.
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I know, both me and my daughter have been through all the official tests but you have just proved you can do it by the post I quoted. Yes there are a couple of things in there but they look like typing mistakes.

(I had to edit this 4 times)
 
Dimple said:
I know, both me and my daughter have been through all the official tests but you have just proved you can do it by the post I quoted. Yes there are a couple of things in there but they look like typing mistakes.

(I had to edit this 4 times)
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I also had to EDIT my post several times, you're not the only one.
 
Go to the bogs and beat one out. Who's with me?

I no longer have the time to get bored at work as I'm driven to achieve and motivated by my outstanding people manager (hi Kirstie!).
 
My workplace is quite simple... Facebook and you'll be sacked a few days later.

Goes with any other time wasting garbage you may want to do...

There isn't generally time to be bored, very small team and huge amount of work.
 
I usually try and further my understanding of work related subjects. As it's an open office with clients embedded you've got to be seen to be working hard, even if there's no work.

At the moment it's reading advanced transformer literature and learning arduino code.

I'm also dyslexic and couldn't live without autocorrect, spell check or the edit button, but how do you guys find your bosses to be about it? Mines not understanding at all. I think it confuses him, which makes him hostile.
 
Veco said:
I'm also dyslexic and couldn't live without autocorrect, spell check or the edit button, but how do you guys find your bosses to be about it? Mines not understanding at all. I think it confuses him, which makes him hostile.
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Then he is an *******.

I work with people who are like this, even coders who sometimes screw code up by incorrectly spelling a variable. What sets them right, is that I know they are extremely knowledgeable and I would place my life in their hands if it came to coding.

I think if you're good at what you do, but someone penalises you over spelling... then laugh it off. You can always improve but not everyone is an English scholar, and mistakes happen.
 
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