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"Games" you play at work to pass time

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iSmokeweed
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I work at a restaurant and on sundays we play so many games:

made up specials like, blue cheese waffle with mushroom gravy
answering phones using girls names
greeting tables with a ridiculous accent
walking up to a table and just staring at them and walking away.....


post up what you guys do at work when you get bored.
Nov 20 2012 1:54PM
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coolflash8
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over the summer at my job building a solar farm i would dream of fucking hot girls at my school /claim
Nov 20 2012 1:56PM
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Anathema
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meh, i just text
Nov 20 2012 1:59PM
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El_Barto.
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i used to work at a concession stand and spiders would always make webs over night in the corners of the sno-cone machine. I would leave the spider in the machine until a person was rude to me then id serve em a spider in their cone.

not really a game but it was worth sharing
Nov 20 2012 2:00PM
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baethoven
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That in and of it's self is a game where I work ahaha
Nov 20 2012 2:02PM
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Ski_The_E
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I don't have a job but I play shred sauce at school.
Nov 20 2012 2:04PM
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Stepchild
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Haha nice. I work in a restaurant too (waiter/server) and we make a list of weird words we have to say to customers during the course if our shift. Sometimes you just gotta bust the word out and take off before they can process what you just said
Nov 20 2012 2:09PM
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Peach.
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I'm usually pretty busy at work but when I get a chance I usually just surf newschoolers on my phone.
Nov 20 2012 2:09PM
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theBearJew
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dude thats fucked.

I play this game that you have probably never heard of called "Shredsauce"
Nov 20 2012 2:11PM
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Bill.Nye
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I make snow and when we're not busy sometimes we go to the lift shacks and play ring toss with O rings on coat hangers. It get's pretty intense.
Nov 20 2012 2:12PM
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DERS.
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when i used to work at a ski shop we were constantly in a rubber band war with those big ass rubber bands used to hold back the brakes.

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thhese guys

the most fun was always tryna snipe the guy who was talking to a customer at the front desk from the back. some customers may have been hit in the process...

also one dude got hit in the eye by one. that was funny
Nov 20 2012 2:14PM
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ryano
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i work in the concert/live event staging business..

when i was just working for just one company it would vary, anything from playing games on our phones, texting, going out for a smoke, walking around whichever city we were in, grabbing food..

now while i'm freelancing, its always with a different crew, so a of times its just talking with other guys in the crew, discussing techy things, bullshitting, joking around and texting/phone stuff.
Nov 20 2012 2:16PM
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yourmother*
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work retail and when im super bored i whip out a subtle accent just because... then I change the accent multiple times over the course of the sale untill I've made them feel like they've been all around the worl
Nov 20 2012 2:16PM
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Bill.Nye
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Freedom isn't free.

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Nov 20 2012 2:17PM
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HWW
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Lol you better post some examples
Nov 20 2012 2:19PM
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iSmokeweed
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hahahaha are they like bad words or just words that make no sense in context?
Nov 20 2012 2:21PM
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seward
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" jerk it".
Nov 20 2012 2:43PM
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Puns
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at tims I used to make popsicles out of hot chocolate in espresso cups and a straw, see if I could serve someone in under 10 seconds, steal cheese.. eat shit... ummm when I took a lot of buses I used to pretend that everyone was on a rollecoster and actually having an amazing time they just acted like they weren't OR.

Here is game 2, applies to any situation but it's complicated.

Imagine that the main goal of everyone in the world is to find out what space (ex, sports stadium, new orleans) it would take to hold all of the blackberries (the fruit) that exist in the world at that moment. So when someone is on their phone they are doing research about weather and how the growing season is going, and what news blackberries farms just opened. When people are smiling it's because they found some useful information or feel closer to solving the problem. When people are grumpy or sad looking it's because it seems so overwhelming. When people are talking it's about blackberries.
Am I fucking insane? Either way, it cracks me up all the time. Try it out.
Nov 20 2012 2:53PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i just play on NS or watch tv shows or movies on the interwebz.
Nov 20 2012 3:01PM
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Tinga
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when I had a desk job I used to play the "what on the internet can interest me the most at this moment" game a lot.
Nov 20 2012 3:13PM
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squashmosh
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I wait tables too and this is my game: it's called "see how much cash in tips I can walk home with." At my Restaraunt we call it "waiting tables" for short.
Nov 20 2012 3:16PM
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rzarector
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I'm a ski instructor so I play games like "who can get farthest on this 10ft rail without sliding off?"
Nov 20 2012 3:17PM
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coolflash8
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haha
Nov 20 2012 3:20PM
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schmidty
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Worked at a water park for two summers. Every year we held a party for the local steel-worker union. We would compete to see who could spot the most handlebar mustaches and/or mullets. Double digits no problem.

Nov 20 2012 3:24PM
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SirBooley
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I work at a catering company that does events in the dc area. When i pass hors d'oeuvres out to guests at a party or something, I always try to leave one on my tray so that i can eat it before i get back to the kitchen and get another plate.

That's about it haha
Nov 20 2012 3:28PM
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jimmydar
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ski instructor. we bet on what kid will improve the most
Nov 20 2012 3:34PM
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Backyard.Skier
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yes!

we do that at my shop as well
Nov 20 2012 3:35PM
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Peach.
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I also like to play the "what would I do if I won the lottery game."
Nov 20 2012 4:08PM
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disastertourism
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go through all the tables and vote who you would and wouldn't sleep with

make up what people are talking about to eachother, that can get pretty entertaining.
Nov 20 2012 4:11PM
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cum
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I'm a food runner so when the printer in the kitchen runs out of paper, the plastic tube that the paper is rolled onto is left over. So a few of us save the tubes and if you throw them just right, the bounce back is absolutely redonkulous. So we aim for cups and shit and try to bounce them in...shit gets pretty heated
Nov 20 2012 5:07PM
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coolflash8
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your name
Nov 20 2012 9:33PM
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J_Christoph
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Seeing how close I can get to Nicole inappropriately sucking my dick right there in the pool office
Nov 20 2012 9:38PM
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Spinoza
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see if you can say meow 8 times to a cutomer without them getting suspicious
Nov 20 2012 9:39PM
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TallTeeNation
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Gold +K
Nov 20 2012 9:42PM
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Joebin
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I do this all the time! Those rubber bands hurt like a bitch when you get hit in the neck. We have a bunch of seperate rooms in my shop for tuning skis so we always get super tactical with them when were slow.
Nov 20 2012 9:59PM
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McFellon
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I work at a fishing shop so usually I just tie flies on the vise behind the counter.

I got hired because I know my shit when comes to fly fishing and I can give good advice about local rivers and whatnot, but we also sell a lot of high-end clothing which I know practically nothing about. So usually I see how long I can go without having to tell a customer straight up "I don't know" when they ask about some specific item of clothing or some travel bag or shit that we may or may not carry. Like I've worked here one day every other week for 4 months, you really think I know details about every item made by all of the brands we carry?
Also we get a bunch of French-Canadians in so sometimes it's a game to figure out what the hell they're trying to ask you, but I probably don't know the answer anyway.
Nov 20 2012 10:01PM
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7-11_Slurpee
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I work at a bike shop and in the winter, it's dead. So I usually just play this and watch netflix.
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Nov 20 2012 10:01PM
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[hamnuts]
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I work at Starbucks and we have a great time when we're bored. Some of the games we play are:

-who can shoot the whip cream the furthest out the drive-thru window
-guess the mystery drink
-races to see who can make specific drinks fastest
-who can eat breakfast sandwiches/other food the fastest
-who can make up the best tasting drink


Nov 20 2012 10:02PM
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coolflash8
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me if you're there
Nov 20 2012 10:07PM
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a_burger
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I do landscaping during the summer. We usually end up try to cause the most collateral damage to each other by shooting rocks and dirt and shit at each other with the mowers or weed wacker. We mow a lot of foreclosed homes so the projectiles can be pretty sketchy, I once gave someone else a bruise from a condom with the weed wacker.

At school, me and some friends usually do the rubber band thing with paper clips or crumpled up papers. I had a friend who would always snipe papers and shit off the teachers desk when they weren't looking at it.
Nov 20 2012 10:16PM
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Forcillo
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I work in an Ice cream window extension of a restaurant, so my boss is never there. There was 3 of us, and would always make one person close their eyes and tell them to guess what flavor we give them from the taste. Then we would usually mix butterscotch, chocolate sauce, strawberry ice cream, peanuts and jimmies into the spoon and essentially make it as nasty as possible. One of the girls I work with is a skier though and we would also watch ski movies sometimes, pretty chill.
Nov 20 2012 10:33PM
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funkykid200
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if i know im gonna be somewhere a lot like i job i set up a system of gnar points. for example every time you get a pencil in the ceiling you get 50 points. pretending to hump the boss without him noticing is 150, dumb stuff like that but its fun.
Nov 20 2012 11:03PM
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KnobJockey
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i worked on my uncles orchard and me and my crew used to just huck cherries at this little mexican kid that annoyed the shit out of us. not really a game but pretty satisfying
Nov 20 2012 11:10PM
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gurneykid
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I used to work with my buddy cleaning elementary schools and he can fit in like anything. we fit him in a teachers mailbox once. But every tuesday was fit joe in something day. we got pretty creative.
Nov 20 2012 11:19PM
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iSkier
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Since i work in a restaurant i take food/deserts off people tables and place them back in the line and tell the staff that food is dead. (Dead means the food had never gone out on the floor, maybe we made double or something) then the begin to eat it......
Nov 20 2012 11:32PM
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2_fadez
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Oh lord, I have a good one.

I used to work at a summer camp and being the competitive counselors we are, we would be proud of our campers.
We would each pick our fastest camper from our group and race them against each other in an intense game of fetch.

One of us would punt a football or soccer ball as far as we fucking could and two or three kids would run after it as fast as they possibly could. While they were running, the counselors would place their bets (food, money, etc) on the camper to come back with the ball.
Played that shit non-stop.
Nov 20 2012 11:50PM
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.Apex.
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pis or.... I can't really enjoy the story
Nov 21 2012 1:11AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Cut skis out sequentially according to serial number. Move them all the way through finishing without rearranging the order.

I got really good at this first year at ON3P.
Nov 21 2012 1:40AM
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act.resist
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when i worked at mcderpalds all the grill people would play this game where you place a drop of the sauce from the spicy asian salad's chicken onto people's sandwiches. every order the drop of sauce would get bigger and we'd see how long it took for the customer to come back and complain.
Nov 21 2012 1:44AM
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2_fadez
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if i find some old pics, i'll post em.

Also when I used to work at a stable, we would hold shit flinging competitions. The same goes for when we would find dead mice in the mouse traps.
Nov 21 2012 6:30PM
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