I frequently have all of my work completed, and I am unfortunately not allowed to work from home. This means I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk scrolling social media, because there’s nothing that needs done. I feel like I’m wasting my time, even more than work already wasted the best hours of the day. How do you fill that downtime with something that is personally valuable, but not disruptive or noticeable enough that you’d get in trouble?

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Would you be able to create even more work for yourself and get paid more for doing it? Like suggesting things to be done, or doing side projects?

      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Or the ones who think you’re trying to make everyone redundant. I’ve worked on scripts that have been shut down because a co worker thought it would make people lose their jobs so they complain to the boss.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Nursing student / surgical tech here. I do a lot of my studying at work when I’m not scrubbed in to a surgery. All our text books are digital, so I can whip my phone out at any time to get some reading done, especially if I can pop a headphone in and use the text-to-speech features to listen to them - I’ll do that while I’m restocking supplies / pulling the next days cases / cleaning / checking for out-dates. Surgery schedule is always feast or famine, so when we’re not occupied with patient care there are a hundred other ways to keep busy - but most of those don’t really require thinking, so time for school.

    Paying me to poop is also a fantastic use of my employer’s income. There’s a crazy correlation with the amount of busy work pushed on us vs the severity of constipation that shows up out of the blue. Sometimes it just takes a half hour to drop a log, ya know?? 🤷‍♂️

  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
    5·
    3 months ago

    I write really dumb powershell scripts. One throws up a GUI with a picture of a wizard holding a magic 8-ball, clicking the 8-ball gives a random response from a list of responses. It was kind of fun figuring out how to store images in the script (just went with base64)…

    Its always a fun way to guess if the meeting with M$ is going to be beneficial or not.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    There is always more documentation to update sadly.
    There is always old customer data to remove. I am currently working on a plan to remove the vxlan and firewall sub interfaces for a customer that was lost 3 years ago.

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago
    • see if there’s literally anything else you can do to improve or polish what you just worked on
    • set if there’s anyone else that might need help with their work or who you can mentor
    • learn new things you can put on your resume it that will help you in your job
    • learn stuff in general that isn’t directly work related, but maybe related to your next job/what you would like to work with
  • deathmetal27@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    You don’t. I’d ask my lead/supervisor if there is any other item to work on. Doing this consistently will get you promoted.