What did you do to goof off at work/school?

They called the girls volleyball team down to the front to have a yearbook photo taken and I went as well. I was in the photo, not on the team. The principal was pissed because they had to call the photographer back.

I used to tear the corner off a $20 bill and wedge it under the edge of the cash register where I worked when I was in HS. I loved watching people try to take it.

At work during Christmas time we were so exhausted and sometimes a coworker friend of mine and I would go up to the mattress department and lie down for five or ten minutes. I wouldn’t really call it goofing off considering we were working so hard for so many hours, many times not even getting a chance to eat during the day. It probably shortened my life.

As far as school, in tenth grade I skipped school a ton. I just didn’t go I was so exhausted in the morning. If school had started an hour later I probably would have made it every day.

In high school, a friend had stolen a pad of passes from the attendance office; he would sell them for 25 cents each if you wanted out of class. I was always “going to the counseling office” to talk about college. In reality, I was going to the local market that sold beer to kids and getting a six pack, then drinking it before I had to be back after lunch.

I transferred schools in the middle of high school, and for the first month, I fell in with a group of girls who were always cutting. They were always outside the school, and they would say to me “hang out with us.” They’d find a boy who would take them in the car (and so I went, too) and drive around, or we’d hang out in front of the school and the school administrator would come chase us (literally chase us and we’d run). That lasted for a month and then my mother caught on, and no more cutting. As a senior, I had so many credits I got out of school at noon so there was no goofing off because I wasn’t in school for that long, each day.

At work, I would sometimes go chat with someone at their desk or at their office, or people would come to my office and chat. I would be on Facebook a lot, and Fluther, and looking at blogs and the NY Times. Sometimes I did crafts like jewelry box painting, or other fun stuff in my office. There were a lot of parties at work – retirement parties, birthday parties, Christmas parties, Easter, Thanksgiving luncheons, all kinds of stuff.

In college I worked at an art museum and if there was no one there and our tasks were done, we could read or do school work. I remember reading The Lord of the Ring books there that summer.

When I started with the government, one of the things I did was do the receptionist’s job on a Friday, because they had a four day work week (compressed time). I sat at her desk and there was nobody there, and when someone was approaching, I could see them walking up the hall long before they were near. I used to take my book and xerox the pages, and take the pages and put them in the inbox, and just read them that way, so essentially I was reading my book, but it was photocopied sheets. When someone was coming, I would take the sheets and put them into the inbox, and nobody had a clue what I was doing.

When I was 15, we had just moved to CA. I went to school for 3 days then hitchhiked to Louisiana with a couple of guys. Got 4 months in reform school for that one.

College worked at the coolege AM-FM radio station on-air and recordings for after mid-night.

High school played in three different music groups – - rock-n Roll, Folk and Jazz groups.

Later in University during the summer worked as Draftsmen during the week (40 hours) Psych hospital (38 hours a week) and Rock Band two or three times a MONTH. Rich at end of summer; didn’t spend much money and made a lot of money. !

Rock band we got cash tips and half gallon bottles of liquor too!

I never did much goofing off at work, but for most of one semester in college I played pinball with my boyfriend down at the beer joint near the railroad tracks.

Our high school cross country running coach sent us out on 10 mile runs every practice. Sometimes our runs included the local apple orchard, where we would eat our fill and nap.

I read novels during class. One teacher tried to catch me by asking question about the current subject but I gave the correct answer so he left me alone after that.

In school, in my senior year, I had this Spanish teacher for Spanish 5 who was a joke. Most of class we never did anything worthwhile anyway, so a lot of times I would go to my music teacher and tell her that he said it was okay if I came down to help or with the music. I was the choir librarian. She would write me a pass and then I would take it to my Spanish teacher and ask if it was okay if I went down to help her and inevitably he would say yes because he knew we weren’t doing much of anything that day. I got all A’s at any rate. But it was kind of one of those things where you let one person believe that the other said it was okay and then vice versa. I don’t really goof off at my job, but of course when it’s slow or if you have all your work done, everybody stops to talk or socialize or what have you. That’s about as close as I get.

@YARNLADY reading your response after I wrote my answer put me in mind of something else. In fourth grade I was in reading class but the stuff we were reading was not very challenging. I taught myself to read when I was 4 years old and by the time I was five, I had read The Hobbit already. So I used to read ahead in our reading book when we had reading circle and I had practically finished the whole book in no time flat. Interestingly enough, the teacher caught me one day and sent a note home to my parents. But I didn’t get in trouble. Instead of my parents went down to school and talked to the principal about me needing to be in a more challenging class. And that was definitely a good change.

@jca2 be careful! Don’t let Elon Musk find out what you were doing or he will use it as further excuse to cut the Federal departments, lol!

But it was kind of one of those things where you let one person believe that the other said it was okay and then vice versa.

So it was like going to mom and saying dad said it was ok, then going to dad and saying mom said it was ok. Two thumbs up!

And good for your parents for asking for something more challenging!

@smudges pretty much, yes! Although I did feel somewhat bad because I really liked my music teacher and I didn’t really mean to take advantage of her, but I just couldn’t stand those pointless Spanish classes. Fortunately I only had him the last year or so because I took 4 years of Spanish in high school.

At the moment I am watching basketball on my phone while I should be charting.