Do you CBR at work?

[Mac Danny]

I hit CBR mostly during work hours. I wonder what my productivity would be like if this site wasn't here. I know a coupe people that post during work. Do you find your productivity suffers as a result?

I know on new Avatar day I can go for half the day without doing a lick of work.

So how about you?

[Karl O'Neill]

all day everyday,

[Mac Danny]

all day everyday,

About how much of your day would you say goes to CBR and it's viewing?

[Lord of Denial]

Spent about 4 hours off and on CBR during work.

I run my own small trucking company so it work for me.

[Lone Ranger]

I'm on CBR quite a bit at the office.

I managed to waste time on the internet prior to discovering CBR, so I can't say that it really impacts my productivity.

[i_mmmchocolate]

Yep-- especially when my boss and the second-in-charge aren't around.

[Jonah Weiland]

I hit CBR mostly during work hours. I wonder what my productivity would be like if this site wasn't here. I know a coupe people that post during work. Do you find your productivity suffers as a result?

I know on new Avatar day I can go for half the day without doing a lick of work.

So how about you?Considering the busiest hour of the day for CBR is 11:00 AM PST/2:00 PM EST, yeah, I think you're not alone. If all those people coming to CBR during the middle of the day are unemployed, then we've got some serious problems in this country!

[Dreadstar]

I sit in front of a PC for 90% of my day. My job consists of fixing the broken stuff via my PC. I do my job well enough that very little needs fixing. Of course I spend time at CBR, and elsewhere.

[JDogindy]

I CBR at school. In fact, I'm CBRing right now. I feel like I'm wasting the space on my server, but what the heck.

Now, some people at school think this is a "Chat Room". Whenever I hear this, I'm like "You can't tell the difference between an inane Internet forum featuring a lot of people who probably have too much time on their hands and a chat room featuring dumb people and sexual predators typing stupid expressions they regret when they get on Dateline?"

This practice, forum entry, is a bit frowned upon, but I'm doing anything illegal or posing a threat to anyone.

EDIT: Oh, one more thing. The remark about "the inane Internet forum", I really didn't mean it. I love CBR, and I bet the people here have a lot of things they accomplish. The chat room, though, I was serious.

[Typo Lad]

Oh right! I have a job. Totally forgot.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

I don't have job.* So no.

Not for want of trying though. :mad: :(

[HomerJay]

I don't post on CBR when I work.

I work when I post on CBR.

[MaxofSteel]

I work on campus as a cumputer lab monitor. So heck yea I do! :D

[Typo Lad]

cumputer lab :D

So what, all the students just look up naughty stuff together?

[Mac Danny]

I don't post on CBR when I work.

I work when I post on CBR.

Very Zen.. very Zen indeed

[MaxofSteel]

So what, all the students just look up naughty stuff together?

If only... :p




But nah it's just strictly animation related. Although the students tend to frequent Youtube much of the time.

[howyadoin]

I'm at work right now. There just isn't anything to do at the moment; this place isn't exactly running efficiently. Basically, there's so much downtime that I charge them for the amount of hours I'm here and ready to work.

I was doing a stint here back when Jonah first unveiled the vBulletin boards. Three days in a row there was literally no work to do. That's how I was able to hit the hundred-post mark before anybody else.

[JDogindy]

If only... :p




But nah it's just strictly animation related. Although the students tend to frequent Youtube much of the time.

Should a lab have a couple of students and no teacher lurching around them, they'll try to go to www(insert 1-9 number).youtube.com (stupid filters) or go to google.ca to search for naughty images.

Believe me, this does happen.

[stealthwise]

I'm at work right now too (I'm a graduate student). I should be studying for an exam, but I'm hungry and I have time later in the afternoon.

[Mac Danny]

I hit CBR in the morning for news and such. I read some of the colums, loving "the buy pile" by the way.

Then I go to the boards to check on stuff I've written to see if anyone has responded. It's narssasitic, but that is what I do.

Then I look for interesting new posts.

now it's 10 Am afe reading my work email and my personal email along with checking out CBR and other sites.

Morning meeting till 11 am.

Now it's only an hour till lunch. No time to really start anything so i head back to CBR.

Noon = Lunch

1pm, time to check out what happened on CBR while I was at lunch.

From 1:30 till the end of the day i am checking back into CBR. I do it when I am saving work in another program, waiting for something to render or print, or when I am looking for stuff on the internet for reference.

Is that too much? It's not like I am Bob Saget from Half Baked, but I think it is an addiction.

[MaxofSteel]

Should a lab have a couple of students and no teacher lurching around them, they'll try to go to www(insert 1-9 number).youtube.com (stupid filters) or go to google.ca to search for naughty images.

Believe me, this does happen.

Oh I agree. ...But not on my watch. :cool:

Anyhow, it's a small room where only college Juniors and Seniors sign up beforehand and animate. So there's not as much monkey business as there would be in other labs.

[howyadoin]

Anyhow, it's a small room where only college Juniors and Seniors sign up beforehand and animate. So there's not as much monkey business as there would be in other labs.That sounds discriminatory towards monkeys.

[MaxofSteel]

That sounds discriminatory towards monkeys.

I know. The monkeys have their own water fountains too.

...Is that wrong?

[Gilda Dent]

I'm not currently working, but when I was working, I'd sometimes check out CBR during my plan period for a bit, but never sign on.

[darkkeeperjr]

there's been days where I "CBR" or "Yahoo" the entire work day. most days is just an hour or so.

[hoffmandu]

If I couldn't CBR at work I'd flip Falling Down, Douglas style. "YOU FORGOT MY BRIEFCASE!"

[Slam_Bradley]

I seldom CBR anywhere besides work.

[Chris N]

What the hell is work?

[Guapo Méndez]

I constantly check CBR while I work.

[Jonah Weiland]

Is it wrong that I'm getting a lot of satisfaction knowing that work productivity is being killed by CBR? Oh, I just love that.

[Serik]

No, because I use a government computer/Internet connection. Never know when Uncle Sam wants to check up on your productivity :)

[thomas_catbiscuit]

always and its got me trouble on more than one occasion.

[Sgt. Preston]

If I worked for someone else I would probably have been fired by now for all the time I waste on CBR and especially the internet in general. Thankfully, I can't fire myself.

Typically, I'll waste about 3 hours total per day on CBR during the week with little to no time at all spent on CBR during the weekends.

After a few weeks of this I begin to feel guilty for all the time I waste and then I adopt a "don't read, don't post" CBR policy for a few weeks until the guilt wears off and then it's back to the boards!

[elheffe]

I'd probably post more if I could find the time to post. Usually, when I'm shutting my computer down for the day, I usually run across a half-written post that I got busy and forgot about.

[Kevin M.]

I'm in college so I waste about 70% of my class time on the CBR forums. My parents tuition money hard at work.

[Tages]

I'm CBRing at work right now.

Thank you, Wells Fargo, for providing us with internet access.

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[Fenris]

I often read the forums while at work.

I generally save my posting for home, though, because

1) At work I can be suddenly interrupted; and I hate it when that happens to a lengthy post-in-progress;

2) There's stuff I talk about here that doesn't need to come up at work. Which is perhaps a little paranoid, but better safe than sorry.


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But mainly it's #1!

[phoenixrising]

The only time I really have to pop by CBR for a moment or two at a time is when I'm at work. I have a lot of short gaps between page deadlines and uploads that I drop by and see what's happening here - but only on nights when I don't have special projects and the like to work on.

[Calybos]

My various co-workers, on company time, will:

*Make and take calls from friends and family.
*Do their taxes and pay bills.
*Take 90-minute lunches with "the gang."
*Stroll down to the break room for a morning gabfest.
*Ooh and ahh over baby and vacation pictures at the drop of a hat.
*Hang around each other's desks catching up on the weekend and current events.
*Go outside and smoke for 15-20 minutes at random.
*Stroll back down to the break room for an afternoon coffee break and gabfest.

So do I read forums at work? Damn right I do! And I STILL get more done than most of these clods.

[K'Nort]

At my previous job, I'd say I easily spent 20% of my time on CBR. Especially towards the end, where there was literally nothing to do. (The company no longer exists. No, not because I was unproductive.)

At my current job, personal internet access is not allowed and they do keep an eye on it. (There has been abuse in the past.) And my coworkers really do work pretty hard all day.

We're allowed to use the public access computer lab on our lunches and breaks. I'll pop in there on Wednesday mornings to check on the avatar contest, but otherwise it's not worth it.

[Sabrina_Fried]

My various co-workers, on company time, will:

*Make and take calls from friends and family.
*Do their taxes and pay bills.
*Take 90-minute lunches with "the gang."
*Stroll down to the break room for a morning gabfest.
*Ooh and ahh over baby and vacation pictures at the drop of a hat.
*Hang around each other's desks catching up on the weekend and current events.
*Go outside and smoke for 15-20 minutes at random.
*Stroll back down to the break room for an afternoon coffee break and gabfest.

So do I read forums at work? Damn right I do! And I STILL get more done than most of these clods.

Some of my co-workers do all of the above, as well as just about everything short of "going down" on eachother in the middle of the workstation pods when people are trying to work. I've actually had to put clients on hold to scream at them to tone it down a few notches so I can actually hear the client on the phone! (Have I mentioned lately that I need a better job?)

And while I do check my hotmail, and read a few newspapers and slashdot online from the Day Job, I usually only check CBR at home. I know there is some amount of monitoring going on in the office. An online newspaper or slashdot (our IT guy's favourite website) I can get away with. A message board, not too sure.

However if it makes you feel better, posting on the CBR boards does interrupt my freelance writing time :)

Sabrina

[Forefinger]

I hit CBR mostly during work hours. I wonder what my productivity would be like if this site wasn't here. I know a coupe people that post during work. Do you find your productivity suffers as a result?

I know on new Avatar day I can go for half the day without doing a lick of work.

So how about you?

I used to kill about 80% of my workday on CBR.

[Sleeper]

Rarely hit the CBR forums when at work. Will be scanning and reading the news part of the site though. Anything to while away the hours in a passive mode that isn't lurking.