21 Ways To Appear Busy At Work :
1. Open a Word document and type nonsense or song lyrics. Furrow
your brow. Never stop typing.
2. Make
Minesweeper super small in the corner and have your work email super big.
Switch between them.
3. Roll your
eyes and tsk your tongue in annoyance whenever someone comes to talk to you.
4. Eat lunch
at your desk. People will assume you’re too busy to leave work and admire you.
5. Print out
a bunch of important-looking papers and walk around holding them in a pile in
your arms.
6. Open
Excel and start making a nonsensical spreadsheet or one of your favorite bars
ranked by drink price and ambiance.
7. Have a billion windows open on Safari and Firefox.
7. Have a billion windows open on Safari and Firefox.
8. Walk to
the vending machine. Walk back. Walk to the vending machine. Walk back.
9. Organize
your desk. Line up your stapler and your tape dispenser and your paper clips.
Put them in size or color order.
10. Test
your improv skills by holding your work phone to your ear and talking to no
one, loudly. Whenever someone comes over, hold one finger up.
11. Open
some folders and put papers in them. Then take them out. Then put them back in.
12. Xerox
some stuff.
13. Look up
random fax numbers and fax them messages on blank paper like “Hey” and “What
are you wearing?”
14. Take out
a calculator and punch the numbers for a while.
15. Keep an
email from your boss open (even an old one) to divert to whenever someone looks
at your computer screen.
16. Roll
your sleeves up and then back down over and over again.
17. Pass
notes with your co-worker, if they’re cool. Write messages back and forth that
you pretend are important but actually just say things like, “Can you believe
we have another six hours?” and “What is with Meredith’s top today? Can you say
circus tent?”
18. Pretend
you saw a pigeon or a bat indoors and go on a mission to shoo it out. “Don’t
worry guys. I’m working on getting the bat out. What bat? Oh my god, you didn’t
see the bat? Don’t worry. I’m on it.”
19. Put
things on shelves. Take things down off shelves. Put them up on other shelves.
Repeat.
20. Send
yourself emails from different addresses labeled “IMPORTANT.” That way when
people glance at your inbox it’ll look like a lot of people need your
attention.
21. Actually
do your work and be glad you have a job...
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