Saving yourself from boredom.......

There are always going to be those days, when you have run out of things to do.  Most typically this would happen in the middle of the day, when there are no customers. Two o’clock in the afternoon is just not a popular time to go out to eat. So there I am, rambling around, trying to keep myself busy, not to try and pretend that I am a stellar employee…..it’s much more selfish than that….I’m just trying to save myself from boredom.



One day I pulled out a bottle a of stainless steel cleaner, and decided to make things look shiny and pretty, but I’m over that now, that was last week’s thing. Or then there were a couple of times where I decided to unclog a drain in a sink or ice bin. There’s a process to unclogging drains….you always start by poking long straws in the drain, then you go in search of a wire hanger, and if that doesn’t work, you use the soda gun, if it will reach, you try and blast the drain by putting the gun right in the drain and squirting soda. (Hey! I’m on a mission here, and the drain cannot win) If all this fails, you hunt around for baking soda and vinegar. Finding these tools is like being on a scavenger hunt. It amuses me.


Yesterday, there were no drains to clear, or dragons to be slain, however, the lobby was being painted, so I told the painters I was gonna talk to them for a while and just breath in the paint fumes.


And don’t forget texting, you have to elongate the process of anything you do by stopping to intermittently send as many text messages as you can. Some, (like the manager) may think this is a waste of time, simply point out to them that what you are actually doing is improving your manual dexterity through texting.