# I pit the last hour of work. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 11, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286 "2007-08-11T22:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/1 "2007-08-11T22:10:21Z")
It’s the one that seems like four hours. Something about hours 1-7 makes it seem ok that you have more than one hour til you get to leave. But when you’ve got one hour until you leave suddenly it’s dragging. tick tok tick tick tok tick ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/2 "2007-08-11T22:11:49Z")
fagot. It only drags if you’re clock-watching. Find some work to do and it flies by. Or read the dope, that works too. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/3 "2007-08-11T22:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=essell] fagot. [/QUOTE] Pardon? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/4 "2007-08-11T22:32:40Z")
Clearly the “tick tock” reminds someone of the engine noise of a [MiG-15](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15). :dubious: In my last job I had to work with customers. The last customer of the day was always the one who difficult transactions or unreasonable demands, so the last ten minutes literally became a half hour. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/5 "2007-08-11T22:38:50Z")
Ah… Because for a moment I thought was being insulted. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/6 "2007-08-11T23:23:34Z")
Of course not. This is the Pit, where politesse reigns supreme. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/7 "2007-08-11T23:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=essell] fagot. [/QUOTE] I don’t know who you hang out with, but some of us detest the use of that word in almost all contexts. Why are you throwing something that despicable out there? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/8 "2007-08-12T00:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] I don’t know who you hang out with, but some of us detest the use of that word in almost all contexts. Why are you throwing something that despicable out there? [/QUOTE] See post #4 ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/9 "2007-08-12T01:13:58Z")
He threw that word out there because he was attempting to be insulting. See, when you want to insult people you don’t use the nice happy words, you use the mean ones. it’s a lot more effective. If you read posts in a subforum dedicated to complaints and insults, you might see some words that don’t make you feel warm and fuzzy. Grow a thicker skin, nancy boy. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/10 "2007-08-12T01:14:32Z")
Meh. Several times I’ve been given 2 hours’ worth of work 30 minutes into what I thought was my last hour of work. Usually I was working on something else at the time. If you’ve got nothing better to do than watch the clock, you should just leave work and save your employer that hour’s pay. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/11 "2007-08-12T01:57:45Z")
Let me add, in addition to that natty piece of venom, that I totally understand **Lobsang’s** dillemna. Even when I’m productively working on something intensive, I notice the clock begin to crawl at the end of the workday. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/12 "2007-08-12T03:54:34Z")
In my old job, the last hour was MY hour. I played Links computer golf. In my present job, the last hour is the fastest to me. Obviously YMMV… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/13 "2007-08-12T05:44:27Z")
Well, if not talking about the Mig, then maybe hir post was made by a native Spanish speaker and [implied that your post was similar in tone to a bassoon.](http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagot). ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/14 "2007-08-12T05:44:52Z")
Usually, no matter how tired and sick I feel, I know I can tough out the last hour. It’s the next-to-last hour that’s really horrible. I’ve put in six hours and there are still two whole hours left to go. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/15 "2007-08-12T12:30:27Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] I don’t know who you hang out with, but some of us detest the use of that word in almost all contexts. Why are you throwing something that despicable out there? [/QUOTE] I certainly didn’t mean any offence. Well, maybe some. In my part of the world that word certainly isn’t “despicable”. I call my Dad that all the time. It’s a mild insult suitable for use in public places that means the same as being “effeminate” ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/16 "2007-08-12T15:08:16Z")
[QUOTE=essell] I certainly didn’t mean any offence. Well, maybe some. In my part of the world that word certainly isn’t “despicable”. I call my Dad that all the time. It’s a mild insult suitable for use in public places that means the same as being “effeminate” [/QUOTE] What’s more I feel like it would be very hard for it to have the same sting over there as it does over here since the term “fag” for a cigarette still seems to be widespread ---
**Author:** ![netsplit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@netsplit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netsplit)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/17 "2007-08-12T15:13:24Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] [QUOTE=essell] fagot [/QUOTE] Pardon? [/QUOTE] You need to speak proper 3rd grader syntax to address this on the level it’s from. Observe. [QUOTE=essell] fagot [/QUOTE] yo mama ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/18 "2007-08-12T23:46:49Z")
What about that hour just after lunch? That’s my worst. The whole afternoon waits to be ticked away, my belly is full of a most unsatisfying, low-fat microwave meal, my pals have all gone back to their holes so there’s no one to talk to; all I want is a nap. Or a fag to satisfy my sinful tobacco jones. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/19 "2007-08-13T15:05:46Z")
While I grok the fagot, he is quite simply wrong. 2:59 pm, June 17(?), 1980. Longest minute in recorded history. I sat, alone, in the music room of my high school. Staring at the clock. Waiting… waiting… Strains of Alice Cooper ran through my head again and again. Thirteen years of my life I spent in scholastic prison. And it was all to come to an end, in what seemed, by the clock, to be one minute. Alas, the minute hand took yet another thirteen years to reach that final tick. I graduated at the age of 31. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286/20 "2007-08-13T16:52:54Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Strains of Alice Cooper ran through my head again and again. Thirteen years of my life I spent in scholastic prison. And it was all to come to an end, in what seemed, by the clock, to be one minute. Alas, the minute hand took yet another thirteen years to reach that final tick. . . [/QUOTE] Steven! Come home! /distant merry-go-round music [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-last-hour-of-work/415286.md?page=2)