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Before Breakfast

Track downtime at work

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Know what your workdays look like, so you can take advantage of unexpected time

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up y'all? This is Eric Andre.

0:01.7

I made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage.

0:06.6

I tell gnarly stories, and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways.

0:12.2

Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.

0:14.7

Like the time I stole a girl's phone during a set and she dumped on stage and threw a big haymaker punch to my nose.

0:27.4

Listen to bombing with Eric Andre on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.7

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:38.4

Good morning.

0:40.6

This is Laura.

0:44.1

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:49.7

Today's tip is to track your downtime at work.

0:56.4

Some jobs require you to be there for a certain number of hours and deal with things as they come up.

1:04.8

Sometimes there might be downtime you can use for things that feel meaningful, for your employer or for yourself.

1:10.0

But it helps to know what kind of time you are working with.

1:15.0

So a lot of jobs involve accomplishing certain tasks,

1:19.4

but others are about being responsive to what is going on.

1:23.1

Maybe respond to tech needs as they come up,

1:24.8

or security calls,

1:31.4

or you are greeting visitors at a front desk. Someone needs to be there.

1:38.3

A receptionist can't exactly say, hey, I have greeted people so well for the first six hours of my shift that I can leave early. The job is to be there in case someone shows up.

1:48.1

If you have had a job like that or you are in one now,

1:50.7

you know that some days can be frenzied.

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