You have NOTHING to do at work..
What do you do when you’re supposed to be looking busy at work but you actually have nothing whatsoever to do?
Open your emails and pretend to write an email – but write it to yourself. Write about what you’re feeling (or write a blog post if you have a blog like me)
Open any attachments that you have recently received through email and look as though you are scamming over them intently as though it is something extremely urgent that requires your attention, even though you’ve already looked at it and it doesn’t mean shit to you anymore.
Open another [preferably] long email, get a pen and paper and start to write down shit. Look back at your screen constantly as if you are copying something that is very important even though, once again, it doesn’t mean shit to you.
If there are any important videos amongst all the folders and documents in your office, watch one, or two or three intently as though you were assigned to watch this video.
You could also just open a word document of some kind or anything with lots of important looking content, put your elbow on the desk, tap your face with your finger, narrow your eyes slightly and put on a facial expression that says “I am thinking hard” but you are actually probably thinking of other ways to take up time.
You could always leave the office as well saying, “I just have to quickly run to the post office” – it sounds more professional than “I’m just popping out to the 7/11″
Write a long, LONG email about nothing (addressed to yourself) – when you have finished with that, read over it a couple of times. Make sure you make grammatical errors while you write it so you can go through and take plenty of time fixing those errors. We all know that proof reading is important. Right?
While you are writing a fake email, flick to and from other important looking programs, but don’t spend too much time on those, it should be like you are referring to them for this surreal email. Stop and pause every few sentences as though you are reading over the last short paragraph you wrote, little time is still time.
Also, if you love the internet like me, these websites will get you through long hard days:
3 weeks ago
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