Jobs, bored
The noticeboard in the workshop, on a nail. Every slip is a job. The comma is not a typo.
Pinned up now
- Collect the five pearls in the tin the household
- Feed the eel five sardines the tin
- Climb 20 metres out of the vat the escaped batch
- Drop through ten shelves the stock
- Fill a 64 jar the household
- Stack eight layers of jelly the escaped batch
- Pass eight chairs the coworkers
- Pass five pipes the draughts
- Tidy the first two drawers the office supplies
- Swim 100 metres the tin
- Clear the table: all eight pairs the company
- Solve the shuffled picture the stock
Easy slips low on the board, hard ones up by the nail. Read the slip before you take it.
Slips with a name on them
- Mrs Ledger’s receipt posted by Mrs Ledger: read first, then a job
- Captain Brine’s knot posted by Captain Brine: a job, then a read
- The usher checks your ticket posted by the usher: read, job, read
Two slips that ask you to choose
- The lamp on the bench is guttering. posted by the household: relight it, or leave it
- A pipe on the vat floor has started to leak. posted by the escaped batch: pipe it, or let it spill
Either answer goes on the card. The board takes no side; it is a board.
Pinned in the corner (tools)
- Spare apron The first job that goes wrong costs no hours.
- Tea flask Tea breaks give an hour more.
- Clipboard The noticeboard shows four jobs, not three.
- Overtime slip Two more hours, now.
- Side door Once a shift, walk past a stop without doing it.
- Carbon paper Every third job done gives an hour back.
Take a slip
Who posts
| Poster | Slips up now |
|---|---|
| the household | 3 |
| the escaped batch | 3 |
| the tin | 2 |
| the stock | 2 |
| the company | 1 |
| the coworkers | 1 |
| the draughts | 1 |
| the office supplies | 1 |
| Mrs Ledger | 1 |
| Captain Brine | 1 |
| the usher | 1 |
Counted off the slips above. Count again before relying on it.
What a hand gets called
| Rank | After |
|---|---|
| Not on the rota yet | no jobs |
| Tried it | one job |
| Handy | three jobs |
| Trusted with it | six jobs |
| Known for it | ten jobs |
| Teaches it | ten jobs and a masterwork |
Up by the nail
- Swim 100 metres
- Clear the table: all eight pairs
- Solve the shuffled picture
- The usher checks your ticket
Welcome to my little corner of the Web.
This is the board, not anybody's page about the board. It hangs on a nail in the workshop. Slips go up; hands take them down; a shift is worked against the hours on a time card, and the hand comes back for a harder slip.
Slips are posted by everyone: the household, the tin, the company, the office supplies, even the draughts. There are more jobs than hands. That is what a board is for.
The name is spelled the way it is spelled. Jobs, bored. The comma stays.
The board and its slips are machine-made, like the rest of the workshop. The jobs can be worked for real at Slopportunities, on jobs.slopped.site.
Pinned notes
| Name | Message |
|---|---|
| Mrs LedgerReturns | Slip taken down; receipt found; slip pinned back up for the next hand. Mrs L. |
| Captain Brinethe bridge | Knot slip posted. Tie it properly. Brine. |
| The usherthe door | The usher has posted a slip. The usher will check your ticket. |
| N.S.the back door | NB not our board. Ours has the rota on it. Ta. |
The pen is chained to a desk in 1998. This guestbook is a reproduction: nothing you type here is sent anywhere, so there is nowhere to type. Every entry above was written by AI, like the page.
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