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Physics_wiz
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Other than PF, what else do you do online (that can be done at work)?
Online Activities - Beyond PF for the Workplace
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Discussion Overview
The discussion revolves around online activities that participants engage in during work hours, exploring various alternatives to traditional work tasks. The scope includes personal interests, entertainment, and informal work-related tasks.
Discussion Character
- Exploratory
- Debate/contested
Main Points Raised
- Some participants mention engaging in other forums and designing website templates as activities they do online.
- Several participants express a preference for playing games during work hours.
- Keeping up with news, sports, and weather is noted by some as a common online activity.
- There are humorous references to downloading pornography, indicating a light-hearted approach to discussing work distractions.
- Some participants share that they use their time to communicate with family and friends via email or video chat.
- One participant describes their experience as an intern, expressing frustration over being given busy work instead of meaningful tasks.
- Another participant discusses trading imaginary movie stocks as a unique online activity during work hours.
- Concerns about the nature of work culture and the expectation to be constantly productive are raised, with some advocating for a more relaxed approach to work responsibilities.
Areas of Agreement / Disagreement
Participants generally share a sense of humor about the lack of traditional work engagement, but there is no consensus on the appropriateness of online activities during work hours. Multiple competing views on work culture and productivity expectations are present.
Contextual Notes
Some discussions reflect personal experiences with workplace expectations and the nature of busy work, highlighting a variety of attitudes towards productivity and engagement at work.
Who May Find This Useful
Individuals interested in workplace culture, online activities during work hours, and informal discussions about productivity may find this thread relevant.
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Mattara
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Other forums. Design skins for forums and website templates etc.
What bothers be is "can be done at work". Just don't get caught
What bothers be is "can be done at work". Just don't get caught
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Gelsamel Epsilon
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Games games games games and games.
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George Jones
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Keep up with news (mainly BBC and Canadian newspapers, but occasionally CNN and MSNBC), sports, and weather; listen to the radio; read physics blogs; check the arXiv; other stuff.
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Schrodinger's Dog
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[Insert obligatory joke about d/l pornography]
Not much, look for hints to solve the mysteries of my maths course, wind up right wing Christian fundementalists(like shooting fish in a barrel) Play games. You know pretty standard
My Boss is off for a week, so more than usual.
Not much, look for hints to solve the mysteries of my maths course, wind up right wing Christian fundementalists(like shooting fish in a barrel) Play games. You know pretty standard
My Boss is off for a week, so more than usual.
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hypatia
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Play games, read the news, video chat with family and keep in touch with friends by e-mail.
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3trQN
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[Insert obligatory joke about d/l pornography]
Read, play games, communicate, learn, listen to music.
Read, play games, communicate, learn, listen to music.
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star.torturer
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post and post and gmail and post
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mattmns
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Does anyone actually "work" at work?
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Evo
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PF is it, when I have time.
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star.torturer
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not very often
PF a lot, mostly at work, when I am not eating egg custards and chips!
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Physics_wiz
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mattmns said:
I want to "work" at work, but I'm just an intern and they have nothing for me to do. When I keep bugging them about giving me stuff to do they give me busy work (ie. take this book and copy it
). So I stopped asking for stuff to do.- #13
Mk
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Wikipedia, physics, paleoclimatology, email, psychology, news, bittorrenting, but when I have a lot of time off I do play a few hours of online multiplayer games—CS and Halo.
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Lisa!
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Anyone does eh of course when their employers are around!mattmns said:
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Mk
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I say if you can't separate work from not work, you're doing good!
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PRodQuanta
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I check my emails, check nature.com, and then I trade imaginary movie stocks on Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). If you are interested, go to http://www.hsx.com. Of coarse, if you are going to sign up, mention that I (PRodQuanta) directed you there (for a free 100,000 hsx bucks in my account!).
Paden Roder
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eveseh
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well i come here and i go to other sites to like dis one,i go to youtube to listend to janet jackson ,new single call on me,i check my mails and myspace
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Schrodinger's Dog
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Physics_wiz said:I want to "work" at work, but I'm just an intern and they have nothing for me to do. When I keep bugging them about giving me stuff to do they give me busy work (ie. take this book and copy it
I've actually made an issue with my work and refused to do busy work, they know they can't make someone do something that achieves nothing so they don't make me do it any more. Whoever came up with the idea that the hours you work you should be constantly doing something is a moron, seriously it's the most retarded practice I've ever heard of, and that sort of work culture is self defeating. Of course your not paid to do nothing but there's nothing in your contract that says you should be paid to achieve nothing either and a swift chat with your union will confirm this, in my country at least if they make you do some demeaning busy work, don't do it. Fight the power
mind you be careful it's all very well standing up for a principle, but it's not worth losing your job over, unless your job sucks of course. If the job your paid to do doesn't fill out your day, that's the employees problem not yours. Solidarity brothers just remember who'll be first against the wall come the revolution.