What do you do when there's nothing to do?
Ok, it's Monday, the week of Thanksgiving and there's no one in the office today to speak of. All the managers for our department are either on vacation all week or "working from home". It's just me, 3 new hires and 3 consultants, all of us largely twiddling our thumbs.
I finished my work for the month last week (a database tool), so all I have today is a brief review of it with one of the consultants, and that's it. I've done up the documentation, I've done all the testing I can come up with (I'll need new eyes to find all the weird errors I wouldn't think to look for), all I need now is final approval from the boss and it's "done"
So, here I sit, surfing the web (at least the sites the corporate filter doesn't block), checking email, drinking coffee and going for frequent walks.
I have Wednesday off to travel home, but considering how dead it is here this week, it looks like I'll just take off early tomorrow and drive home in the afternoon. The question now however is, what do I do with the rest of my day today, and half day tomorrow?
Maybe I can build a fort in my cubicle out of empty binders....