This is the thread for senselessly frittering away the last hour of a Friday afternoon

yes, this afternoon is bad. made worse for me by the fact that my boss was phoned today for a reference for me for a job i interviewed for earlier in the week, so im both waiting for the end of the day and waiting for an email saying "you got the job".

so slow on the holiday weekends, argh

can I just leave now?

oh wait, I have templates to change

i have 3.5 hours left and it has begun

and my job thing - they got back to me at literally a minute before quitting time that day, lol

congrats jim!

wanted to fritter away this friday by getting a thread on dampfnudel started but not enough great british bake off viewers on ilx

Been pointlessly watching google finance all day, I get weird pleasure in bad stock market days/speculating on whether another big one is on its way.

xps. thanks, it has been a while, i.e. years, since i had a permanent job and wasn't just doing contract work so it's pretty nice to have holiday and sick pay again.

._.

:o

it's already 3:30 here, I might just quietly disappear at 4

In a form of cruel and unusual punishment my work had our Xmas night out last night.

It's rainy and gross in Vancouver and I'm looking out my window at the faux copper dome of this lovely building and feeling wistful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tower#/media/File:Vancouver_Sun_Tower.jpg

if you haven't noticed

so i thought this week would be ridiculously busy. instead i'm sitting here refreshing ilx and watching the clock. i know - be careful what you wish for, but i can't do two more days of this...

This time last year I was twiddling my thumbs, but today I've been running all over the place.

hello

sup

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Got to leave work a whole twenty minutes early today. Because Christmas there is no-one else around. I walked through the main building and nearly all the lights were off.

lord give me strength

Mm.

got dancehall days by wang chung stuck in my head

GAH

join me edward

gjhghlvuyfutf

Ready for a maddening and addictive Friday diversion?

i'm finishing up for three weeks' holiday at 5pm and i feel like today has lasted for a fortnight

wait its only 9

ugh

i am literally dying of boredomuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh

ah, 2 minutes to go, thank the lord

hellooooooo

hey

was really productive yesterday and I had every intention of following that up today

then my coworker invited me to the indian buffet restaurant for lunch

currently all of my energy is being expended digesting a large amount of food I put in me

what's up y'all

Yo

hi friends

hi lxy!

an hour and a half for me (including a 15 minute break)

Grinding along...

hi sleeve! how's everything?

in person good, the macro view is, well, you know.

it's hot, I'm gonna walk the dog and then go tell 1990's anarchist history stories to a friend who is researching the Eugene scene of that era

sounds like a fine way to fritter <3

first I have to make it through 23 more minutes of verrry slow workday

2 hours til long weekend. aaaaagh

Not if you peace out right now!

I didn’t know they had American Labor Day in Canada.

historically they're linked and not just in the canada apes the u.s. style

wikipedia:

Labour Day (French: Fête du Travail) has been celebrated in Canada on the first Monday in September since the 1880s. The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week,[7] almost a full decade before a similar event in New York City by the American Knights of Labor, a late 19th-century U.S. labor federation, launched the movement towards the American Labor Day holiday.[8] The Toronto Trades Assembly (TTA) called its 27 unions to demonstrate in support of the Typographical Union who had been on strike since 25 March.[7] George Brown, Canadian politician and editor of the Toronto Globe hit back at his striking employees, pressing police to charge the Typographical Union with "conspiracy."[7] Although the laws criminalising union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on the books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union. Labour leaders decided to call another similar demonstration on 3 September to protest the arrests. Seven unions marched in Ottawa, prompting a promise by Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald to repeal the "barbarous" anti-union laws.[7] Parliament passed the Trade Union Act on 14 June the following year, and soon all unions were seeking a 54-hour work-week.

The Toronto Trades and Labour Council (successor to the TTA) held similar celebrations every spring. American Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was asked to speak at a labour festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 22 July 1882. Returning to the United States, McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event on 5 September 1882 in New York City, USA. On 23 July 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday. In the United States, the New York parade became an annual event that year, and in 1894 was adopted by American president Grover Cleveland to compete with International Workers' Day (May Day).

neat

I'm ready to strike for a 32-hour work week pretty much any time btw, someone just say the word.

neaaaaaaaaaaaaaarly