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

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police to charge the Typographical Union with "conspiracy."[7] Although the laws criminalising union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on the books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union.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

Gigs Friday / Saturday / Sunday planned. Can't remember the last time that happened.

I'm in the first hour of my Friday morning and all I want to do today is fritter. It's sunny and bracing out!

it is dead here and it’s only 10:21am
this is going to suuuuuuuuuuck

Beer'o clock in 7 minutes. Black Friday come at me.

1 hour and a bloody half to go. So done with this week.

Beautiful weather outside...t minus 52 minutes.

bih I just got to the office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4

feels like the recession is already here

BLARGH

escaped this thanks to a perfectly timed 2pm power outage & we all got sent home :D

friday afternoons are the worst, i don't know why i started reading about nuclear accidents but somehow things always start getting dark :(

Two hours and fifteen minutes to go GODDAMMIT.

I've expertly delayed my lunch so that when i come back i will have just 2 hours left.

im also working monday and tuesday before having a week off so I'm not quite as anxious to leave as i might be

Half hour to go and my brain has collapsed.

I'm reading a book online about the kosovo liberation army.

Speaking of 'fritter': I think if you were to monitor the number of times food is mentioned across an eight-hour stretch of Food Network programming, my workplace might honestly give them a run for their money. The eating of various foods seems to be the sole and intense focus of 99.7% of all conversations I overhear in the office. Scintillating. Scintillating conversation.

I'm ready to go, y'all. It's time.

I was having a tremendously productive distraction free afternoon while working from home today and then a colleague from afar suggested a bunch of us jump on an agenda-free Friday afternoon chat session. Reader, I did not take the bait.

I'm reading a book online about the kosovo liberation army.

― xmas respecter (jim in vancouver), Friday, December 20, 2019 3:37 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm reading an article called "Heidegger and Goldberg on the Flight of the Gods"

i've been in a goddamn meeting for the last hour and it is incredibly intense and i have no idea anymore what anybody is talking about

*twiddles fingers*

currently senselessly frittering

opening tabs. closing tabs.

hungover. took an extended lunch for a nap. nobody in my team is at work today. hoping the phone doesn't ring. listening to christian period Bob Dylan. still have over an hour and a half left

i think today was the most slackinest work day in decades. everybody's had enough.

literally no one is here and there's nothing to do.