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foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Proxies mane
Pankratous
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Never worked in a big IT company before, eh?
Engineer A may have to wait hours on Engineer B to complete his work before Engineer A can continue.
Don't even get started on Testers - who need to wait on various teams to get their shit together. They can sit for hours with nothing to do.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Not every job is the same man
Manmademan
Member
I can't believe this one works
Langdon Alger
Banned
I wish I had your job. I barely have a minute to breath, let alone downtime.
freenudemacusers
Member
Downtime is great. More people should get jobs with it.
DeadlyVirus
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This means that the server is only blocking DNS resolves.
Use this to get more results:
http://get-site-ip.com/
Not just IT. Whenever you rely on other people's work for your job, really.
Ex: I'm overseeing (the radiation protection side of) the decomissioning of a waste treatment system and subsequent release from the control obligations according to the German Atomic Energy Law.
Of course there's concepts to be created and conversation with the authorities to be held, but the day-to-day business is maintaining the data I get from the contamination measurements carried out by the people working under me. I get results approx. every two hours, entering the data takes up half an hour at most. Towards the end of each measurement campaign when the data has to be presented to the authorities and the decomissioned parts have to be prepared for transport it gets busy, but before that my job is literally just to enter the data and make sure work progresses (which I know it does from getting the data). I spend quite a bit of the waiting time personally overseeing the work, but realistically the client (I'm a contracted engineer) still pays for 8 hours of my time, which only 4-5 are actively spent working in the slow phases of the project.
No internet to kill time for me, tho
Really this, though. Downtime sucks and I personally enjoy how time flies when you actually have enough work to fill the entire day.
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Deleted member 594614
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My trick to tell people for..
Good money + no work is..
Ok, ok, its a about a 5 year process, but, you dont need college or anything! (Maybe have to be willing to get dirty, some technical skills, able to use tools, etc..)
Step one: Get a job at a school as a Janitor at nights. Earn a Black Seal Boiler Operators License. (Easy!)
Step two: Find a Water Treatment Plant/Organization and be prepared to work hard for a year. Earn first Water License
Take these License and get a job in Utilities (large research facilities, corporate parks, etc..)
Do a job a monkey could but he cant cause every state requires that monkey to have a license to even hit the on switch.
You'll come in entry around 25-30 and by year 5, and if you keep getting License, make it up to 40-50 an hour. OT is a must and they will treat you well (double time usually instead of time and a half) I get $100 an hour when someone calls out or is on Vaca. Means usually twice a month I have to cover a shift and make $800 for watching Netflix.
Use your free time at night to take online College classes. Profit.
Good money + no work is..
Ok, ok, its a about a 5 year process, but, you dont need college or anything! (Maybe have to be willing to get dirty, some technical skills, able to use tools, etc..)
Step one: Get a job at a school as a Janitor at nights. Earn a Black Seal Boiler Operators License. (Easy!)
Step two: Find a Water Treatment Plant/Organization and be prepared to work hard for a year. Earn first Water License
Take these License and get a job in Utilities (large research facilities, corporate parks, etc..)
Do a job a monkey could but he cant cause every state requires that monkey to have a license to even hit the on switch.
You'll come in entry around 25-30 and by year 5, and if you keep getting License, make it up to 40-50 an hour. OT is a must and they will treat you well (double time usually instead of time and a half) I get $100 an hour when someone calls out or is on Vaca. Means usually twice a month I have to cover a shift and make $800 for watching Netflix.
Use your free time at night to take online College classes. Profit.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
I fear meeting the IT guys at work cause I can imagine them saying 'oh you're the guy who is always on neogaf'
Kite
Member
Almost every office job. I spend 20 thru 80% of my time on Reddit/gaf or reading manga on my tablet.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Browse on your phone.
The Lone Courier
Member
If its under 2 hours you can walk out, quit and break the previous record.
Ha I'm over 5 months here unfortunately. Can't beat that record........This time
Use workarounds at your own risk.
I've known employers who use internet and phone policy violations as a sort of rainy day fund to fire people at cause to avoid severance pay (and potentially paying into unemployment benefits).
However this is the US so that might not be as serious of a risk if you aren't from here.
I've known employers who use internet and phone policy violations as a sort of rainy day fund to fire people at cause to avoid severance pay (and potentially paying into unemployment benefits).
However this is the US so that might not be as serious of a risk if you aren't from here.
Aeriscloud
Banned
You should check if your boss lied.
WordAssassin
Member
Sooooo many uninformed people in this thread thinking downtime doesn't exist or if you have it you're not doing your job. Yeah ok.
Here are some jobs that are real and have lots of downtime:
IT
Security Guard
Receptionist
Parks & Rec
Call Center
Surgeon
EMT
Firefighter
Police Officer
But I guess people that work those jobs are bad employees. Like those EMTs and Firefighters that sit around all day doing literally nothing (in many cases sleeping) until they get a call yet still get paid while not actively saving someone's life. Or surgeons who are on call all day, getting paid to do whatever they want until - or IF even - they get called in.
I've worked a ton of jobs with a ton of downtime. The one I'm at right now? I work 8-hour shifts yet my actual duties take up less than an hour. People thinking they don't exist, or that employers are stupid for having them, or that employees with excessive downtime are bad at their jobs, must not have ever worked outside of retail or food prep.
Here are some jobs that are real and have lots of downtime:
IT
Security Guard
Receptionist
Parks & Rec
Call Center
Surgeon
EMT
Firefighter
Police Officer
But I guess people that work those jobs are bad employees. Like those EMTs and Firefighters that sit around all day doing literally nothing (in many cases sleeping) until they get a call yet still get paid while not actively saving someone's life. Or surgeons who are on call all day, getting paid to do whatever they want until - or IF even - they get called in.
I've worked a ton of jobs with a ton of downtime. The one I'm at right now? I work 8-hour shifts yet my actual duties take up less than an hour. People thinking they don't exist, or that employers are stupid for having them, or that employees with excessive downtime are bad at their jobs, must not have ever worked outside of retail or food prep.
Aarglefarg
Member
Paid to be there for when there's work.
CelticKnight
Member
Used to work in IT and, yeah, I had my share of "downtime". Sometimes there isn't much to do except read the internet... or other people's emails.
Teacher here. No downtime, hardly a lunch break.
Summer?
I work overnights then and the summer is only a couple weeks off between the overnights and summer in service sessions. No different than any other white collar jobs vacation policy.
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Deleted member 594614
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Seems like people with down time, like me, are paid not for our sweat but for our speciality in solving problems..and being cerified or licensed to do it.
Like IT people I sit and wait for a problem.
We dont actively go to work everyday with a task but we go to insure that in the rare occasion a machine goes down our training can get it back up in minutes.
I actually did the A+ thing, Nwtwork+, MCP etc.. even lol But I figured out I hated wearing a tie and such lol Id much rather wear some jeans and a T shirt and twist a wrench. So I got Operator license in Utilities
Problem solving is wear the downtime + good money is.
Like IT people I sit and wait for a problem.
We dont actively go to work everyday with a task but we go to insure that in the rare occasion a machine goes down our training can get it back up in minutes.
I actually did the A+ thing, Nwtwork+, MCP etc.. even lol But I figured out I hated wearing a tie and such lol Id much rather wear some jeans and a T shirt and twist a wrench. So I got Operator license in Utilities
Problem solving is wear the downtime + good money is.
they reactively blocked neogaf because you were using it. perhaps your boss was giving you a hint?
you realize how easy it is to log and monitor your actions right? they got you walled off, and I'd be really careful trying to bypass the intended security in more aggressive ways.
use your phone
you realize how easy it is to log and monitor your actions right? they got you walled off, and I'd be really careful trying to bypass the intended security in more aggressive ways.
use your phone
stump sock
Member
maybe we should go clean the kitchen or something
oh except there's somebody else we pay to do that who probably has downtime too
IdreamofHIME
Member
I have 3 hours downtime in the middle of my shift. Watch movies, play Vita, read GAF. Can do whatever I want as long as I don't leave the office.
Chie Satonaka
Member
It makes me wonder if that's what's happening here in my building.
Also, some of the responses in this thread are funny. This is my first job in IT, and even before this, be it call centers, retail, or janitorial work, there were always bursts of downtime in my workweek. Sometimes longer than others.
I remember working for facilities management at the campus and having days where they had no work for us to do at all, for the whole day. They gave us the keys to the work truck and told us to be back by the end of our shift.
Glendemonium
Member
Work did that to me. And I'd just go on those sites for lunch or breaks. NeoGaf and Reddit and even Bodybuilding dot com were blocked.
The only reason we even have youtube are for the receptionists and the higher office people who want to watch videos while working. So at least I can always watch say, E3 from my desk.
The only reason we even have youtube are for the receptionists and the higher office people who want to watch videos while working. So at least I can always watch say, E3 from my desk.
Rabbi_Vole
Banned
How big are the stall cracks in the workplace restroom?
Salty Rice
Member
Quit your job and find a new one that has no sites blocked. Not even the porn ones.
Ahahahahah. Man please. It really depends on the industry, I am swamped at times, and others its deadweight. I have spent weeks just playing hearthstone and shit at home during working hours because there's nothing to do.
It just isn't as great as it sounds, because when it rains it really pours pretty damn bad.
TapeDispenser1000
Member
Man I need to get an office job. I've worked jobs where I didn't even have time to go to the washroom.
Email them your avatar
freenudemacusers
Member
get paid smarter, not harder.
Global employees exceed 20,000 local employees exceed 2000....I doubt they're wasting time monitoring me. Also my boss (and probably his boss) more than likely don't have a say in what gets blocked. We're a relatively small fish in the global business. Also I'd never try bypass the security. That's just begging to be fired.
My bosses boss is pretty pissy about the use of personal phones as I mentioned above
QuantumZebra
Member
Speaking for myself - IT.
I work for a consulting company and I do maybe 3 hours of work a day, tops.
The rest I'm studying for more certs or on GAF or sports forums... sometimes jump on Steam and play some vidya gaemz.
kavanf1
Member
Same in the UK. Even if IT don't specifically monitor certain things, there are usually contractual obligations that every employee signs up to, as well as internal policies, that mean that you would be directly violating your terms of employment if you do almost any of the things recommended in this thread. It's a pretty good way to get fired, or at the very least, a written warning. It's not worth the hassle when almost everyone has alternative means to browse nowadays.
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