I find myself with a few minutes of downtime interspersed throughout the day at work. So instead of surfing endless KiloBytes of ad revenue hungry "copy"-blogs I decided to purchase a $0.50 chess board at Big Lots. The apparatus is quite simple. I start a game and flip the paper next to the board to "your turn" if "you" walk by you're then allowed to make a move. When finished "you" flip over the paper to the side that says "My Turn". It's way more fun that a lot of ways that I've found for killing down time. As an added bonus I rarely end up lost forever (xkcd), neglecting work.
It has been met with much amusement by most of my co-workers. While some of them just smile and shake their head others stop by at fairly regular intervals to see how the game is going. It is not really a quality game of chess that ends up being played. However, I feel that it has many intangible team building and sanity keeping benefits.
What do you do to shake out the cobwebs/kill time at work?
It has been met with much amusement by most of my co-workers. While some of them just smile and shake their head others stop by at fairly regular intervals to see how the game is going. It is not really a quality game of chess that ends up being played. However, I feel that it has many intangible team building and sanity keeping benefits.
What do you do to shake out the cobwebs/kill time at work?
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