Making Work More Fun

[Arcanas]

Well, when I worked at the Butcher shop, when we were cleaning up for the night, the floor was nice and slippery...we'd slide across the whole shop, and see who could go the furthest without falling over ^_^  

[Kusaragi]

that sounds like lots of fun you guys, unfortunately I'm not in a job where I can do much in the way of fun. Most of it is rather monotonous. I don't have any co-workers, the jobs are always different, and if you "Add" something to the end product people say "WTF?" more then take it as a joke. Best I can do is bring my music to the job and hope it's not too boring.  

[Kerrigan_dragon]

Just talking about random stuff with my coworkers makes it better. I don't even know what we talk about half the time, but it's really funny a lot of the time. I don't know how many times I've burst into laughter at work.

I'm starting a new part-time job on Monday, so we'll see what I do for entertainment at that one~  

[invisible-weirdo]

The duck doodling sounds adorable~ If my sandwich came with a little pirate duck, it'd make me smile 3nodding

As for me, I've never had an actual job before ^^; Closest thing was some volunteer work I did a few years back. I was working in one of the offices in the hospital my dad worked at and it was all very mundane. I'd either be typing something up or filing stuff or making outpatient pack things for the folks just out of surgery and to be honest after that first day I knew I'd go crazy if I didn't have something to help (I'm apparently not suited for 8 hours of primarily working in a cubicle. It's.....no. No.). So for the subsequent 'work' days, I brought in my dad's iPod to listen to while I worked (I didn't have my own at the time so I had to borrow his). I only ever put in one earbud though and I made sure it wasn't too loud so it wouldn't interfere with my duties. Sadly, my last week there they told me that new policy stated we couldn't bring in stuff like that anymore so that week was pretty long >.>  

[PixiecuTT]

I work in a call centre, so I'm a little limited as to what I can do for fun.

When I was on the phones, me and a few of my team members would sing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song (each of us alternating a line) while the customers were on hold. If I remember correctly, Tae was involved in that one.

A few times on the weekend we brought in a Wii or a 360 and played games.

We've also set up a make-shift golf course in our row, but HR decided it was a "health and safety hazard".

Now, I can't really do that stuff, but the agents I supervise are really great at keeping things from getting too boring. They organize potlucks, and created a "birthday wall" for everyone on our team. They decorated my desk with all these paper flowers and origami, once. We're all pretty close.

 

[Roland Karloseth]

Gawds, this just reminds me how dreadfully boring factory work is. When I worked at the local cookie factory, we weren't even allowed to have shirts that had printed logos or words on them. (The stuff could fall off into the product) No music, (The headphones could get caught in the machines) No cellphones. (Distracting. Also, the only rule that everyone (Myself included) broke) Shirts had to be tucked in... Hell, I even had to take out my earring. (My earring at the time was a stainless steel chainmaille ring, it had to be cut out.)

I didn't have anyone to talk with most of the time, I was palletizing by myself most of the time. After a bit, someone was hired to palletize with me. He quit a few days later, the same day I quit.


Before that, I worked under the table as a lot boy at a mechanic/auto dealership/car customization shop. I worked there for two weeks, cleaning the place outside, moving bumpers and crap... absolutely loved it. It was my first job, I was making money myself. I didn't need to try to make it fun, I enjoyed every second of it.

Second week on the job, I got sick and was fired because of it. gonk Since it was an under the table job, there was nothing I could do about it.