listen to music, fall asleep, or play vidya

or gtfo and get a new job

Why don't you bring a book to read? Operate on your cellphone? Pick up a fucking PSP and watch some movies?

How are you getting experience if you do nothing all day? Are you seriously bitching about sitting around for hours on end and getting paid to it when so many of us do it for free already?

Find another fucking job.

>>2466877
Well now you got me interested:

What job is this?

Just be glad you have a job, man. I graduated back in May and I haven't been able to get a job since. Shit sucks. I'd kill to have a job, even an extremely boring one.

See, I herd there this weird things call "buks" or "Boos" or "books", I don't know well, a friend of a friend once read one.

They say you can use your time somehow with them, exchange time for mind profit.

Milk this bitch for all it's worth.

Enjoy your free money.

>>2466894

I'm pretty sure I'd get fired if I actually started sleeping at my desk.

>>2466898

Again, if I sat there on a fucking PSP I think people would probably notice. It's less experience and more shit to put on my resume when I eventually do apply for something better. Which, given the pay, might be a while.

>>2466906

Government job. Meant to be taking care of some software. Probably. I don't know, like I said, I've been given fuck all to do.

>>2466913

Yeah, that's my first solution. Basically take in a Java book and just read it. This is going to get old doing it for 8 hours a day though.

Detail on job please.

this much is warranted.

beep boop beep

Okay, how much are you making from doing nothing OP?

HOW IN THE LOVE OF THE ALMIGHT MUDKIPZ HAVEN'T YOU FUKKEN ASKED FOR SOME WORK, YOU LAZY ASS MOTHERFUKKEN NIGRA!?

I SMELL TROLL FEE FIII FOO.

>>2466943
IT department?

sadly this is my future plan
government IT gets paid a lot for the work that is done

>>2466943
>Java book
of course it will be boring. Bring SICP instead. You know you're supposed to read it every day right?

I'd laugh if it turns out that there was a lot to do, but OP just didn't realise and when he goes back he gets complaints about the huge stack of work he has neglected through not knowing what his job is.

get a ipod or psp so you can watch some movies listen to music, play games. or get a ds and play pokemon. it's repetitive, but it can keep you entertained for hours. if you have an iphone you could browse the web. i would fucking love your job.

and if they don't let you do cool shit like that, quit.

watch hulu or something, and try meeting people in the office
buy donuts every morning and hand it out to people, that's a useful way to make friends

Oh come on op. How much are you making...also you have to SOMETHING right?

You seriously cannot be doing absolutely nothing.

Can you work on a laptop or something? They don't give you work, but they would get mad at you for playing on a psp? I don't get it, do they expect you to just stare into space all day? if you got a laptop, play some fucking vidya games on it, and just make sure your back is against a wall so no one can see. if you are supposed to read books and do paperwork, you could buy used boring accounting books and put a smaller book inside and read those. if you put a big stack of books in front of your hands you could play psp without ppl seeing. they would think you were writing something.

Way to abandon your thread, OP.

pick up drawing or reading comic books

I know exactly how you feel OP.

Freshly graduated over the summer, found a good paying job in a private company. Damn good pay for a zero-experience rookie...and no work to earn it.

I'm hired more or less as an assistant to fill in whatever work might come up, except I get assigned nothing. NOTHING.
Walk into work everyday, sit at my desk and waste time. Ok, I do get a small task here and there every so often, but its over within the hour and back to zero.
Having little to nothing to do is probably better then being crushed under a neverending load of work, but damn its draining my mind and spirit just as bad.

Dunno what resources you have at your disposal, but if you at least have a near functioning PC, theres a never ending supply of eBooks online.
I'll be continuing through the Hellblazer Comic series as you read this.

>>2466943
>Again, if I sat there on a fucking PSP I think people would probably notice
They'd notice you're retarded for staring at a piece of plastic with no games.

Bring a DS, a copy of Nintendogs to satisfy the ladies, and some Contra 4 to show off and beat hard mode with one life.

>>2466945

It's an IT job involving mathematics, organising meetings and stuff like that. Pretty much as high as you'd get straight out of uni I guess.

>>2466966

About 55k a year.

>>2467025

I'm reasonably new there. I don't know the systems well enough to just sit down and work. Much of it is implemented (actually, pretty much all of it is implemented) so I don't know what exactly they want me to do with it. I need -some- kind of guidance here.

>>2467105

I read some technical documentation that I find lying around places. I'm not given anything. Once I've read that I browse for anything else that could possibly be of use, but most of it is just administrative garbage. It really is basically doing absolutely nothing.

>>2467477

I have a functioning PC, yeah. I know what you mean though. Draining is exactly the word I'd use for it as well.

>>2467675

OP, they are testing your iniative and independent work. Enjoy you being fired when the fat got to be trimmed at that company. M M M FUCKING JEW:

Wow fuck you guys and your complaining about your boring well paying jobs.

Have you seen the economy lately? It's shit. I'd be almost ecstatic if I manage to find a reasonably paying job that's boring. And I mean fuck, I'm already working part time at a boring ass job anyhow.

1. Buy all of the seasons of The Office
2. Watch
3. Get ideas
4. Spend all your time plotting friendly pranks on coworkers
5. ???
6. Profit

>>2467266

ding ding ding

I learned to draw in all of my math classes and get paid to do it by getting my shit done early at work and then pretending I have something to do in the back. No better way to learn a skill; even if you don't get any better, well fuck, you have some money.

You are a God tier retard.

A hundred years ago, I would have loved to be in your predicament.

In 2008, I can start using all manner of cheap digital devices to keep busy/entertained should I get tired of my analog book.

This almost makes me want to go out and look for an easy job just to show faggots like you how it's done.

Almost.

Dear OP, I'd say you're a great example of how the modern education system sucks. You've obviously succeeded massively at conventional education, but you lack the initiative of a six year old. Work on some projects of your own at the desk. Since it's programming, it'll look like paying work, and even if somebody notices, they'd approve of you making productive use of time.

>>2467711
>>2467730

I posted the first message, and I agree with the second, so here's an addendum: you aren't worth shit unless you are creating something. Write something worth reading, draw a picture, and sit comfortably on your soft, justified sense of self-satisfaction. This applies to everyone.

Fuck you OP. Fuck you. Fuuuck you.

>>2467756
Why should I bother writing or making anything? you'll just hate it anyway.

Since you're in IT, take the down time to read some technical books to improve your skills. This can only help you down the road when you want to move on and the folks there probably won't be too upset with you trying to improve your skill set (since that means you could take on extra responsibilities).

Also, I too am in a boring government job but at a university. I spend the day reading stuff that'll be of use to me when I go to grad school.

get some remote login software on your home pc. use it so that you can use your pc from work

set up a nice looking website for yourself, get a pro looking domain and email with it

go on some site where people get quotes for jobs they need doing, and bid for some. you're bound to get some eventually if you actually try, and if you provide a good service you're bound to get more customers from reccomendation and repeat customers

or you could do an ebay business or set up and do most of the running of practically any web-based business such as a shop from work, and do despatch from home after hours.

if you put effort in then you can make enough profit to get some other guy to do the actual work, while you just take the money off the top. or sell the business.

if you're making a good wage in a stable job and have all this free time then DO NOT WASTE IT, its a great opportunity. just use your head to take what i have told you further, it isn't hard. you don't need an amazing or unique idea to make money, most money nowadays is still being made just by buying something cheap in bulk and selling it at a profit. find niches and expand them.

>>2467477
I want this job so bad. I was born for this. Boredom is a state of mind that I can handle.

Ask a high ranking person in the business what you should do?

Hey /r9k/

I need a bit of help. Anyone with experience in o-o programming might be able to help me. I am trying to write the method for loading some data from the db. It needs to call on a method that already does this in a superclass. How do I write this method?

I hope thats clear. And thanks in advance.

>>2467965
oh man i fucked that up. disregard that post. I infact suck cocks.

>>2467965

WTF is that? Modula-3?

>>2467985
>>2467985
its Jade.

>>2467985
and in that pic, ive obviously fucked up the method, but i dont know how to write it.... as simple as Im sure it is.

>>2466877
go ask for something to do...or learn to program in different languages while you sit there doing nothing

sleep at work
get drunk go on 4chan
etc

Take a book

Considering the way the economy is right now, and the way it's going to be for the foreseeable future, I would advise you to do anything but quit.

Yo Dawg, I heard you like work in your job, so I suggest get another job while keeping that job, so you can do some work while you dont.

Also, profit.

Don't worry OP, nobody anywhere is really doing any work. Everybody does very little and tries to make it look like a lot.