Bored at work

[pabstblueribbon]

Okay. Sitting in an office is fricken boring. My telnet port is blocked. Ugh. Suggestions?

[Keller]

Work?

[NocturnalRob]

what he said

[pabstblueribbon]

Sadly. I am done with everything and waiting for the go ahead on another project... there is literally nothing for me to do.

[TheEschaton]

I am now fascinated by Rob's sig.

[ElvenFury]

I am now fascinated by Rob's sig.

This.

[NocturnalRob]

This.
There you go. Bored at work? Stare at my sig.

I am.

[ElvenFury]

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn219/jayakar914/asin2.gif

I think I just died in a jihad...

[Archigeek]

Hey, it could be worse. There could be nothing to do at work and you're sitting there wondering when the hammer is going to fall. Archigeek = architect = profession that presently has about a 40% unemployment rate. My day is so slow I check these boards about 20 times a day.

[pabstblueribbon]

Just had lunch with my boss. It may be a week and a half before the paper work is done and I can do *anything*. He said to hide in the office and fuck around on the internet and pretend I'm doing something. This is going to suck.

[Archigeek]

Always love a boss who is comfortable with reality. On the other hand, it's a week and a half. Take some time off! Go see the world. Screw work for a 10 days. You'll come back refreshed and invigorated.

I work on big projects, (100m -250m), so it's pretty common that we have substantial downtime between jobs. Usually a lot longer than 1.5 weeks. We end up re-writing standards for the twentieth time or some other crap work like that. It sucks in a business where "billable hours" are the holy grail.

There's nothing worse than turning in your fifth time sheet in a row with 10 hours or less of billable work over the course of a two week pay period, and half of those hours were on a job that we'll likely be losing money on anyway, because we had to take it up the ass just to get the job.

[pabstblueribbon]

Yeh. He's cool. I work for a railroad tech company installing, fixing, and trouble shooting different components on locomotives in the field. This office shit kills me.
The IT department here has everything blocked. I can't proxy. I can't telnet out. FUCK. I've read everything on slashdot, anandtech, etcetera. God I hope they give me my aircard soon.

[Sam]

you should set up terminal services on your home computer, set your router to forward port 443 to port 3389 on your PC, start -> run -> mstsc, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443

if your ip changes a lot, register it at no-ip.com and use their client to dynamically update..

well, first check if you can use mstsc.. if that works and you need help with setting this up, let me know

[Sean]

Always love a boss who is comfortable with reality. On the other hand, it's a week and a half. Take some time off! Go see the world. Screw work for a 10 days. You'll come back refreshed and invigorated.

I work on big projects, (100m -250m), so it's pretty common that we have substantial downtime between jobs. Usually a lot longer than 1.5 weeks. We end up re-writing standards for the twentieth time or some other crap work like that. It sucks in a business where "billable hours" are the holy grail.

There's nothing worse than turning in your fifth time sheet in a row with 10 hours or less of billable work over the course of a two week pay period, and half of those hours were on a job that we'll likely be losing money on anyway, because we had to take it up the ass just to get the job.

I work for a small Architectural firm and we didn't lay anyone off, we had a time reduction across the board that was undone about 3 months ago. I suppose we're lucky that we have enough work to keep everyone moderately busy (although a lot of it is design development for projects looking for budgeting). I'd kill myself I had to work on project teams in a large firm.

[WRoss]

I am now fascinated by Rob's sig.

Rebecca Linares. Sad that I know it, but I know my porn.

[Archigeek]

I work for a small Architectural firm and we didn't lay anyone off, we had a time reduction across the board that was undone about 3 months ago. I suppose we're lucky that we have enough work to keep everyone moderately busy (although a lot of it is design development for projects looking for budgeting). I'd kill myself I had to work on project teams in a large firm.

Where you at Sean? I'm here in Minneapolis/St Paul and it is absolutely brutal here. We've lost 30% and everyone left has mandatory hours reduction too. And we're in better shape than most firms here. It's nasty. I know a lot of great architects who are out of work right now.