Making the day go by faster?

[WstLek]

Its my 4th day as inbound-GM and I like it, especially first thing in the morning from 5-730 while we unload truck, but when I'm pushing U-Boats from truck, it seems like the day drags on.

I know this might be a dumb question, but how do you guys make the day go by faster?

 

[Luck]

I genuinely miss when days felt like the dragged on for me at work.
Nowadays I scramble to get things done and never feel like I have enough time.

I say just learn to enjoy it. Before you know it you are at a point in life where at your job a 12 hour shift has passed by and you consider staying later because you still have so much work left to do.

 

[jenna]

I have never had this problem.

I will see myself out.

 

[Sisyphus]

I use distractions:

-I mentally make the tasks into my own Olympics with medals for how fast I perform each task(event) with a facetious running commentary in my head
-I play Michael Scott and mentally give Dundies to my co-workers (personal favorite thing to do)
-constantly looking for ways to make things more efficient and smoother for the next day
-mental Polymarket where I try to predict what each person will say on the radio that day
-make plans for what I am going to do after work
-when an especially good song begins to play I imagine the guests and team around me one by one joining in a flash mob
-I mentally re-imagine a logo or package redesign for some of the product. How would I make it better? what would I change? What would I keep?
-I imagine what I would do if I won the lottery. How would I quit this job? What's the first thing I would do?
-I imagine my ideal vacation Where would I go? What would I do? Who would be with me? (If you see me with a big smile on my face while I am working, don't bother me because I am on my ideal vacation🤣)
-I imagine where I would go if I could time travel. Where would I go first? Would I change my past? Would I change negative world events? what figure would I want to talk to?
-I imagine if I lost this job where would I work?
-I imagine what guests do for a living
-I imagine if I could talk to the 16yr old me, what would I tell her? If the 85yr old me could talk to me now what would she say?
-I imagine what it would be like to work at the gas station in my favorite tv show with all my favorite characters. What adventures would we get up to? What would it be like to have that character as a boss?
-I make sure I am doing 100% of my job checklist and not skipping anything ( 🤣 Olympics: I score a 10 if I finish everything on time)
-I look for ways to do more

And yes I think all this while I am keeping up on my work.

(If it sounds strange to think like this on a daily basis, its might be because you're not ADHD 🤣)

 

[Sisyphus]

The work will never be fun so it will always drag on. If you make it fun in your own way time will pass a little quicker. You won't be working there for the rest of your life so savor the fun you have with your work friends now and let the memory of shifts that drag work for you as motivation to find a better job.

 

[Captain Orca]

Never gave it any thought, did the shit that had to be done then bolted.