Ideas For Down Time???

  • Top Five Things To Do When You Have Down Time (as a contractor)

    5. Acquire caffeinated beverages

    4. Clean out your purse/laptop bag/desk

    3. Call significant other/friends/family

    2. Look up words co-workers have recently said at dictionary.com and then e-mail them the proper usage and meaning.

    1. Run the Profiler and see what users are doing. Look for failures.

  • Show off your vast knowledge in areas that have no relation to the contract. Like football!

    Steve Jones

    sjones@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones

  • Forward all the chain email you get back to everyone on the list of the people who sent it to you with the standard proper email use message, but add at least 40 people you don't know just to confuse things.

    "Don't roll your eyes at me. I will tape them in place." (Teacher on Boston Public)

  • Antares,

    Yuck! I loathe chain mail.

    I hate people who send and forward frivolous, stupid mail...especially virus hoaxes that they take seriously.

    They always start out:

    "FW: WINDOWS VIRUS ALERT"

    Which in code means: "Some stupid idiot is trying to scare you moron!"

  • Play computer games!

    and delete junk mail such as chain letters and virus alerts!

    Robert Marda

    SQL Server will deliver its data any way you want it

    when you give your SQL Programmer enough developing time.

    Robert W. Marda
    Billing and OSS Specialist - SQL Programmer
    MCL Systems

  • 1) Organize your CD Collection

    2) Find a partner and have a game of cubicle volleyball

    3) Hone your yo-yo skills

    4) Play practical jokes on your cube mate

    5) Drink as many Code Reds as you can in 15 minutes, then get a blood sugar reading

    6) Switch the Caf/Decaf container contents in the break room

    7) Re-create your company's org chart at your whim and then post a hard copy anonomously on the bulletin board. Bonus: Include famous/infamous business persons of dubious character and currently under indictment. Don't forget to give yourself a promotion!

    8) Update your resume!

    My hovercraft is full of eels.

  • 1) Download software that would probably save me a ton of time but I never have time to test or justify to managment.

    2) Surf - www (specifically http://www.sqlservercentral.com)

    3) Walk around IT dept to see who has candy on their desk.

    4) Really slow - walk around building to see who has candy.

    5) Service Packs and Security Patches.

    **Not in proper order. Candy would be first.

    David

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • I'll go with Robert on this one...oh and Steve's suggestion too (well Soccer over here!)

    :o)

    Clive Strong

    clivestrong@btinternet.com

  • Great...all good ideas. I like the cubicle volleyball and candy search ideas. There's a developer here with a ton of candy in her cube, but it's all in jars and looks like it's been around for too many years.

  • * Play Fussball

    * Play snooker

    * Sit in the sun and drink beer

    Forgot: Read a good SQL book!

    Chris Hedgate @ Apptus Technologies (http://www.apptus.se)

    http://www.sql.nu

    Edited by - chrhedga on 08/28/2002 05:29:43 AM

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