Roy, D. F. (1959). "Banana Time: Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction." Human Organization, 18: 158-168.

Roy's account of how a group of machine operators kept away boredom through some simple ritualistic behavior.

His work group was clearly abandoned to its own sources for creating job satisfaction. The work was extremely monotonous, but it is a human tendency to try to find meaning in the work. They made a game out of work.

There was ritualistic patterns of horseplay among workers, often childish jokes on each other. These interruptions would initiate verbal exchanges and occupy through processes to occupy group members until the next interruption. The group interactions thus not only marked off time; they gave it content and hurried it along.

There was peach time, banana time, window time, lunch time, pickup time, fish time, and coke time.