How To Look Busy At Work
- March 10, 2009
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BScott
If your work ethic is to avoid it whenever possible, here are some tips you can use.
You Will Need
- A cubicle or office
- A phone
- A highly visible and good-sized calendar
- And stacks of important looking papers
Step 1: Cover your tracks
Use either a bogus spreadsheet or a legitimate business email as your screensaver. If anyone interrupts your web surfing, you’re hard at work with a mere click of your mouse.
Step 2: Fill your calendar
Fill your calendar with numerous cryptic reminders and appointments that no one else could possibly decipher. Enter a check next to some of them. Your boss will look elsewhere when assigning new projects.
Don’t use sticky notes to mark your calendar. You want permanent visible evidence of just how busy you are.
Step 3: Carry a legal pad
When you leave your desk, always carry a legal pad or file folder with you, preferably close to your chest.
Step 4: Keep piles of paper
Keep numerous stacks of paper on all surfaces of your cubicle or workspace.
At least once a week, stay later than everyone else, especially the boss. Even if you stay only 15 minutes later, this gives the appearance of diligence.
Step 5: Look the part
By 2:30 in the afternoon, make sure your appearance is disheveled as further proof of how industrious you are. Men, loosen your ties. Women, place pens behind your ears and roll up your sleeves.
Step 6: Fake phone calls
Dial phone numbers with automated messages so you can strategically be overheard saying key phrases like “I’ll get on it right away” or “Coming right up.”
Research shows the typical worker wastes more than two hours in an eight-hour workday.
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Comments (0)
ONLY two hours? Amateurs!
over 4 years ago by gonzeaux
Do i actually have to work there to practice these?
over 4 years ago by livre
Fantastic advice to stay later at least one day a week--even in only 15 minutes!
over 4 years ago by Bananarama
okay i will try this and see if it will excuse me from my boss if not i am blaming you
over 2 years ago by corvus_corax
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