1. Look at the clock every twelve seconds and complain about how it seems to be moving backwards.
2. Think and talk incessantly about food from the second bum is planted on seat.
3. Over think everything you say to your colleagues. They obviously all think you're a massive tool.
4. Complain about being bored whilst staring wistfully into space. Pick at nails.
5. Sigh.
6. Bury every bit of criticism management give you in brain for use during future meltdowns and "oh fuck, I'm getting fired!!!" Crises.
7. Avoid conversation with colleagues where possible.
8. Look at the clock some more.
9. Decide you hate any and all customers before you speak with them.
10. Fantasise about other, better jobs you could be doing right now because you're, like, so under appreciated in this one....pick nails and look at clock.
Part 2: Holy Beeps, Bruce, This Is Fun!! AKA How To Enjoy Your Job (even if you're not a cake tester or super hero.... Yet)
1. Take full advantage of spinny chairs. Wheeeeee!!
2. Doodle whenever the opportunity arises.
3. Laugh along at all the brilliant, ridiculous things your peers tell you. Feel inwardly chuffed when they laugh with (*cough*at*cough*) you.
4. Get stuck the fuck in. Whatever you're doing. Enthusiasm = faster hours (not too much enthusiasm, though. I once smacked myself in the face with a phone before I could bellow any "hello"s down it).
5. Smile. But only if you feel like it.
6. Build something out of paperclips/stationary... E.g binder clip robot
7. Make effort to recall weird customers, and later regale others with tales of their screwiness for mid afternoon giggles. Unless you're a psychiatrist. Confidentiality and that...
8. If someone brings in cake, love them forever, eat the cake, and spend the following week reminding everyone how good the cake was, so that people feel obliged to bring in more cake.
.......CAAAAAKE!!!
9. Drink so much coffee that you leave the office in spirit and enter a new dimension where everything takes on a buzzy, cartoonish quality (when in reality, you're freaking your co workers out by giggling and shivering at them).
10. Realise that, despite the ghoulish mass moaning about the pay, the hours, the boredom etc etc, you probably never would have had the luck to meet any of the people you get to spend at least 8hours a day with, faffing,laughing and eating, five days a week if you hadn't worked there. And you know for a fact, that wherever your life takes you next, you know you'll remember the good WAY more than the bad, and part of you might even miss it a little.
Aww.
Retch.
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