Whats your routine when you FIRST get to work

Cycle to work
Lock bike up
Go through secret door
Straight into toilet where I take all my cycle gear off leaving just my shorts and t-shirt
Go to desk and switch computer on
Get mug & teabag and go to the kitchen that is shared by about 200 people
99% of them are women so they get a good look at my legs and usually say some sexist thing.
Make tea and go back into toilet where I wash and put my shirt and trousers on
Being an NHS PC it might have got to the boot screen since I turned it on
Finish making my brew, log on to PC and decide the most important patients/solicitors who get dealt with first
About 1 hour later put my shoes on
 
Dump bag.
Say morning in grumpy voice.
Microwave a vat of porridge (with cinammannnananaon) and a cauldron of tea.
Do some computer stuff, check emails and calendar.
Lunch.
Start work.
Complete tasks and extras.
Make a pot of afternoon coffee to stay awake and make the bosses happy.
Go home, look for new jobs and flights the hell away from here at the same time.
Cry self to sleep and/or go for a early/midweek night out.

:D
 
Get in at 8:45am
Go up stairs, put my work outfit on
Put all the fresh chicken in the lift and send it down
Clock in on the till
Turn all the draws on to keep the food hot
Put the oven on half clean (20 mins)
Rack all the chicken up to set up
While chicken is cooking in the oven, I set up all the salads, put sauce base in the metal pots
Light the front grill and back grill
Cook off rice and corn ready for the open

Thats my open shift :)
 
Swipe in
Turn on laptop,
Take off motorbike gear stage 1
Make a brew
Do the email thing from overnight
Take off motorbike gear stage 2
Crack on with the rest of the day.
 
Park car, walk through doors, sign in say hello if the person behind the desk is someone worth talking too, unlock "office", grab equipment, get on with work until it's finished.

No time for anything else if I want to actually leave on time and grumble about how much I dislike this job. Then remember in this day and age I'm lucky to have one at all and that it was hard enough to acquire.
 
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Grab a coffee while the PC is waking up.
Ping the offshore team and check if everything is running ok.
Search emails for anything urgent that's happened overnight.
Check diary for anything urgent that day.
 
Sit down.
Log in.
Start work.

Thanks to the blessing/curse* of the blackberry I no longer have to wade through emails before I can start working.
 
I suppose the only things I do every day in the same order is use my swipe card to get beyond the reception/foyer and into the school proper, go into the staff room to put my lunch in the fridge, go upstairs to where my office is, take my coat off/put my bag down, sit at my desk, turn my monitor on, and then finally, before commencing work, unlock my PC (I don't turn it off because the PCs and network at my school are terrible and they take an age to boot up in the morning -- something we'll be sorting out during the summer holiday when there's hardly anyone around).
 
Get on the tube, take two separate lines, one into kings cross.
Go up the longest escalator in Britain.
Get in, swipe pass.
Bundle into the lift with a couple of pudgy blokes.
Get crushed.
Get into office.
Sign in.
Make tea.
Sit down.
Ride ultra cool hidden lift to deliveries.
Ride ultra cool hidden freight lift back up.
Get glared at by the guys over in CAD cause of my dodgy spec I handed them.
Work.

Pretty much it.
 
paradigm said:
So you travel to work bare footed? :confused:
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I wear a different pair on the way to and from work, it has a rubber sole (it is kind of shoe/trainers) with better grip. The leather shoes I wear at work have leather soles, completely smooth, lethal on any smooth surfaces, especially in the winter. It is more comfortable, better for my feet and I can walk faster too in the rubber sole ones. I used to wear trainers but changed to these so at a glance I don't look too weird in shirt and tie with bright colour trainers.

Plus a pair of these lasts about 9 months to a year worth of walking. If i wore shoes it will get ruined in a couple of months.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I wear a different pair on the way to and from work, it has a rubber sole (it is kind of shoe/trainers) with better grip. The leather shoes I wear at work have leather soles, completely smooth, lethal on any smooth surfaces, especially in the winter. It is more comfortable, better for my feet and I can walk faster too in the rubber sole ones. I used to wear trainers but changed to these so at a glance I don't look too weird in shirt and tie with bright colour trainers.

Plus a pair of these lasts about 9 months to a year worth of walking. If i wore shoes it will get ruined in a couple of months.
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I get plagued with slipping shoes, I used to have some grip on mine, until they became like kippers strapped to my soles, slipped on Friday and gashed my knee. Last time I wore those things ever again. Caused me too much trouble.
 
Swipe card entry, sign out-of-hours log book.

Go upstairs, take laptop out of bag, log in THEN dock it... or forget and dock it, try to log in and restart this process (something's wrong with the G-Diffuser).

Log into phone, open start of day programs including Outlook.

Wash glass, fill glass with water, observe that Outlook isn't loading properly.

Listen to the handover from the previous shift, force Outlook to close then re-open in safe mode.

Contemplate logging a call to internal IT regarding the logging in problems and Outlook, then realise they'll do a rebuild and break something else instead.
 
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