does anyone else get away with doing their hobby at work?
I am sittin at my desk with a redbull and Aerosmith playing, working on the cursed tracks formy BOB M4A3 76, while waiting for cargo to come in so I can prep it for air transportation.
Yeah, I’ve managed to get away with it once or twice. I work contract security, and every now and then I get posted at one of our accounts on overnights where you just sit there and monitor alarms. I have managed to build about 3 kits so far.
the holes in the duckbills are to @#$ shallow and I dont have my pin vise for my drill bits![banghead]
I wish. I hate my job.
what do you do for a living tigerman?
I’m telling your boss!! [:D]
I work for the government… do your worst! 
I wish i could. I normally work underneath hovering helicopters, would be a bit to windy to model doing that.
I’m not sure I can respect a man who brags about wasting US taxdollars and then dares someone to tell…
you lucky guys. i wish i could do that. and yes i hate my job too and i work at target.
While I can’t build at work, I can surf the FSM website and do reference surfing to my heart’s content while here.[;)]
Same here. I can do reference searches more than build time at work, and sometimes reference searches can take forever so it actually helps speed the build along nicely.
Mike
Might as well get paid for the research time, it hardly makes a difference on my builds anyhow.
Pre-press production for my local newspaper.
If you have read about the future of newspapers, it’s pretty much true. We are a dying industry. Maybe not tomorrow, but someday. As the older generation dies off, so does our readership. The newer generation has grown up with the internet, and someday, the paper will more than likely be available only on-line.
Revenues are down and people are going to be offered a company-wide buyout, and my paper wants to offer no future raises to those that stay! Now there is an incentive to stick around with no future. The sales staff is in an almost worst position.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do. My wife who works there is close to starting a new career, so her timing is perfect. She can get the buyout and move along. Me? I’ll have to look at every angle.
I’m not sure I can respect a man who brags about wasting US taxdollars and then dares someone to tell…
Well, there is a lot of “hurry up and wait” time in the military. We used to play RISK for days on end, while we sat around waiting for an alarm to sound at one of the many Minuteman silos scattered around the Missouri countryside. In those days we were lucky to get three TV stations, radio reception sucked and you can only study for so long. Out of a 3 1/2 day shift, it took less than a day to get everything done that needed doing. Some times we spread it out, other times we did it all at once. The rest of the time was “ours” while we sat around waiting for the alarm to sound.
In Air Frieght (Logair), once the pallets were built, loaded onto the vehicles and the paperwork completed (including the after action reports) we sat and waited…and waited…and waited. Though we were scheduled for a full 8 hour shift, which sometimes went much longer, for the most part we’d knock off and go home early. It all revolved around the arrival and departure of the aircraft. We were efficient so the “duties” were done in a timely manner, leaving us free once the aircraft was processed and the inbound cargo distributed.
Did I waste taxpayers money (remember GIs pay taxes too), nope. There are a lot of personal sacrifices made by those who serve…let’s just say this is just an unpublished perk of the job. It’s better than going nutz while you wait!
I keep an old kit at the office and some basic tools and when I have some down time I bust them out for a quick modeling session! Eventually I’ll finish that kit! [:-^]
Roger that!
Many times when you get staff duty officer or CQ (Charge of Quarters), you’re there to answer the phone and make sundry checks throughout the evening while everyone is asleep in the barracks or at home. You’ve got to do something to stay awake.
Back when I was a single lieutenant, I used to volunteer to take the holiday duty for another officer who had a wife and kids, like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc. Since I had to be awake and nothing was going on, I used to work on a kit while pulling staff duty.
Likewise, if you’re the unlucky person on call waiting for something to arrive, like repair parts or some high dollar item, you’re sitting in a motor pool or warehouse all night without anything to do.
I was a fireman (or firefighter to be p.c.) and in the evening between calls I would build in my office.Nothing better than to get paid to build tank models.I was able to use the internet,listen to to music on my cd player,build and get a good paycheck.Miss that.Had to get old and retire.Now I just stay home and build and get a check every month.Actually this is better now that I do not have to get all hot and dirty fighting fires or starting an iv or doing CPR. Semper fi. Ted Nichols
Once upon a time…our unit’s barracks had it’s share of troubles. Seems the young GI’s didn’t know how to act like adults and be responsible or accountable for their actions. So, our Commander decided to task the married NCO’s to pull CQ to babysit the barracks each night. I pulled the duty once, and only once. Seems I was none to understanding with troops that misbehaved. I asked nicely the first time. Issued a lawful order the second. Had them arrested if there was a third. Our 1st Sergeant didn’t like it any better than I did, but rules were rules and I was well within my authority to have them arrested. Soon many of my fellow married NCO’s also cracked the whip. Finally our Commander relented and released us from the duty. He gave the dorm rats a choice…obey the house rules or spend their off duty time in correctional custody. In the end the dorm dwellers learned to behave and had a first class dorm. They pulled CQ amongst themselves. The units moral also improved too, especially with the married NCO’s!