OT: Bored at work

1st - Get dual monitors

2nd - Put some fancy excel file up on the bigger one

3rd - read every site on TD to SECr to Fark Board

4th - ????


5th - profit (literally, like your paycheck)

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I am IT. Well, I'm a developer, so kind of. I just take spare cords from empty cubes if I need them.

I've only been working since the start of January so I can only be so jaded.

I have a government job, I sit at my desk for 8 hours a day.

When I'm not doing actual work, which means basically almost my whole day, I just get on message boards. My rotation usually looks something like this:

SECR
GSB
OT
M/TV
MSB
OTL

Then start back at the top. Sometimes if I'm super bored I'll check out the help board or other team boards. Throw some facebook in there every so often. But for the most part I just cycle through the above until it's quittin time.

I read a lot of reddit in addition to some of the boards here and some espn blogs...

Luckily, my job is a 4/10. Fridays off is going to be so freaking awesome come football season.

I applied for my young alumni tickets a few days ago. As for the away games, I'm going to try and find a Florida ticket and probably GT through some current Redcoats (they can only apply for away tickets - I know, I did it last year for some friends).

Try not to burn through all of these boards and Reddit so quickly. Spread out the browsing by taking 5 min walks each hour (this will do WONDERS for your health btw).

If your current poop-cycle involves going at home, CHANGE THAT. There are very few things more satisfying than getting paid to take the kids to the Super Bowl.

It sounds like you are early in your career. Try using some of your downtime to brush up on skills/technologies that can help you in the future. As a fellow C# developer (I'm making assumptions here since you mentioned Visual Studio), I highly recommend you learn the following:
Proper unit testing practices/techniques
Moq (goes with unit testing)
MVC
Linq statements
MSSQL Server (how it works, how to query, write stored procedures, etc)

If you are into web development, check out and learn AngularJS. Having Angular on your resume can/will do wonders in today's market.

Yup, we're mostly a microsoft shop. Our legacy apps are built on whatever they're built on (VB6, you name it). All of our new stuff is going to be Javascript (Typescript), HTML5, C#, with some custom controls thrown in, etc, etc. Most of it is web development - for me, at least. I do spend time brushing up on new tech when I feel like it. I have a lot of free time right now.

I'd be wary of straight watching shows at work. I don't have a manager breathing down my neck at all, but our "cubes" are more open in that it's relatively easy to see what coworkers are doing. Think open rows with 2-3 rectangular hubs in a row.
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etc

x is desks. Rough sketch, I know.

EDIT: This board kills open spaces. Formatting.

DamnGoodDawg,

Please block the government employees from posting during work hours. Thanks.

As actual producers, we are the ones who pay the salaries of the government workers.....through the money that is stolen from us by taxes. And we shouldn't have watch them get paid OUR money to post on SEC rant all fricking day. Agree?

Holy shite........