A Newly updated (as of 1/30/2009) comprehensive list of stuff I can't do at work
Stuff I Can't Do At Work With My Empty Time
Play online computer games
Play offline computer games
Play games
Watch streaming video
Watch a movie I brought from home
Read news online
Check my personal e-mail
Instant Message people with a personal IM client
Instant Message people with my company's IM client, including coworkers
Go to any website that is not Kaiser
Read a newspaper
Read a book
Listen to music out loud
Listen to music with headphones
Stand in a hallway talking to people
Stand in a hallway doing nothing
Eat in the room
Drink in the room
It's a pretty big deal because, you have to understand that we can have 1-4 empty hours a day, not including lunch. This pretty much leaves me twiddling my thumbs or commiserating with my coworkers, which I'm sure will soon also be outlawed. Also still free: gardening and, ostensibly, pillowfights, though my coworkers assure me that if we were to try, it'd be ruled out too. Also, until further notice, I can still have delusions of grandeur in my spare time. So since that's all I've got to go on for now, I suppose I'll be trying that out on Monday. I shall be the Queen of Kalamazoo, come for a visit. Just to see if they'll stomp out using one's imagination too.
Contact with the manager has been distant. It's a bit like being a colony on a faraway distant planet with just the superstrict armed forces to rule us and hand down the manager's orders. To put it mildly, relations are strained (at best).
Play online computer games
Play offline computer games
Play games
Watch streaming video
Watch a movie I brought from home
Read news online
Check my personal e-mail
Instant Message people with a personal IM client
Instant Message people with my company's IM client, including coworkers
Go to any website that is not Kaiser
Read a newspaper
Read a book
Listen to music out loud
Listen to music with headphones
Stand in a hallway talking to people
Stand in a hallway doing nothing
Eat in the room
Drink in the room
It's a pretty big deal because, you have to understand that we can have 1-4 empty hours a day, not including lunch. This pretty much leaves me twiddling my thumbs or commiserating with my coworkers, which I'm sure will soon also be outlawed. Also still free: gardening and, ostensibly, pillowfights, though my coworkers assure me that if we were to try, it'd be ruled out too. Also, until further notice, I can still have delusions of grandeur in my spare time. So since that's all I've got to go on for now, I suppose I'll be trying that out on Monday. I shall be the Queen of Kalamazoo, come for a visit. Just to see if they'll stomp out using one's imagination too.
Contact with the manager has been distant. It's a bit like being a colony on a faraway distant planet with just the superstrict armed forces to rule us and hand down the manager's orders. To put it mildly, relations are strained (at best).