Recently started as a grocery person at a certain Amazon-owned store and was wondering if people here had any pro tips for inconspicuously slacking off, staving off boredom, corrupting fellow workers with Marxist thought , things to avoid, etc.
Recently started as a grocery person at a certain Amazon-owned store and was wondering if people here had any pro tips for inconspicuously slacking off, staving off boredom, corrupting fellow workers with Marxist thought , things to avoid, etc.
I've been pushing shopping carts in a parking lot for the last year and a half. My solution to boredom has been hidden headphones + audiobooks.
Hidden headphones: I got a pair of open-ear bone conduction headphones, and figured out that my hair is long/curly enough that I can wear them stealthily by positioning them such that the transducers are right above my ears, with the part that normally goes around the back of your neck going over the top of my head. I use hair ties to fasten this into place and then cover it with hair. I also wear a hat (wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat and long sleeved athletic shirts is a good idea if you work outside and don't want skin cancer).
Sometimes it's hard to hear the audio because the transducers aren't sitting quite next to my ears, so I use an app to boost my phone's volume over 100%.
Also, I need to be able to pause quickly to avoid someone hearing the noise if someone walks up right next to me, or when I need to listen to someone. My solution for this was to take a headphones cord, and use it to create a "pause button" on the back of my phone case, by taping the headphones cable into place with a quarter to create a larger button over the built-in play/pause button on the cable. That way I can just tap my pocket whenever I need to pause. When the headphones cable is plugged in the phone will want to send audio through the headphone jack instead of through bluetooth to the bone conduction headphones, so I use the app Lesser Audioswitch to force it to use bluetooth audio.
It's not a totally foolproof system but nobody's yelled at me for doing it yet, so I feel confident that it's at least not obvious that I am listening to audiobooks all day every day.
An alternative solution would be if you can convince your boss you need a hearing aid and then get one that is bluetooth enabled. This is probably a hard sell if you already started work there, however.
The audiobooks I mainly get through myanonamouse (private torrent tracker for ebooks and audiobooks), DM me if you want and maybe I can get you an invite.