It seems to me like the opposite would be true. For instance I work in a restaurant, and when it is really busy I'm having to manage many orders (information) at once. On busy nights like that, where I'm constantly moving and processing orders, complaints, and other things that come up during the night, time seems to fly by. During slow nights where I stand around and bullshit, time crawls by and I end up constantly looking at the clock waiting to close.


I too work in a restaurant, bartending, I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. However, I also find myself going into what I call "autopilot" mode, the work is SOOO repetitivy you are only using old brain pathways again and again and not creating NEW ones, or not processing new information just repeating old information. When it is slow, you are doing DIFFERENT things to pass the time such as socialize and conversate which usually will create new brain path ways, see what I am saying?