Top 10 ways to look busy at work

Marc says on October 15th, 2005 at 12:10 pm

Why not just do work?

Don says on October 15th, 2005 at 5:32 pm

I agree totally with Marc. All that stuff amounts to working harder to not do work than to actually just do the work.

But, a lot of people know these kinds of “tricks”. I’ve worked with too many people who actually put more effort into not working than I put into just getting the stuff done.

Getting things done that you need to is a much better “lifehack” than working hard to appear you’re getting things done.

Leon says on October 15th, 2005 at 5:40 pm

That’s right. Both pretending and doing the work are spending “time”. It is just not effective to pretending to do work. No way our readers will apply these.

That’s why in the introduction I use the keyword “funny”on these tricks. And I think the orginial article is in the category humor as well.

Don says on October 16th, 2005 at 8:34 am

Heh. Good point. I overlooked the word “funny” when reading the post.

I think I forgot to leave work at work and was still pissed at doing my busy looking cow-orker’s work.

Mea culpa.

james says on November 28th, 2005 at 9:52 am

you guys are boring fags

John says on July 12th, 2006 at 11:55 pm

hehe im gonna bump this almost year old thread just to say this, lightem up, u could get somewhere by doing the work, but if you want to test other things then act like you are doing work, why not huh? butt fuckers

Staci says on January 5th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

The only reason I am reading this and might try some of this out is because of the difficult times our economy is in right now. I am the receptionist/secretary in a manufacturing plant and we are extremely slow! I am trying to find a way to look busy so that I can KEEP MY JOB and have money to live and support my family. It’s hard to “just do work” when there is no work to do! (and trust me, I would love to have a whole pile of work on my desk and not enough hours in the day to get it all done!)

Tom says on February 13th, 2009 at 10:26 am

For God sake! Talk about missing the point! The article is funny and I have seen at least two people in my office doing a number of these techniques. I’m pleased to say that I had some of these on the go before reading the article:)

billy boob souther hic says on March 15th, 2009 at 9:25 am

YOU IDIOTS !! did you think it was for real????????????????????????

Tom says on March 31st, 2009 at 12:28 pm

OH MY GOSH! Why are you guies being so stupid over this? If you need to look busy at work, because you don’t have enough to do to keep busy then go for it. However, if you have enough to do without having to fake it, then more power to you. Do what you need to do and have fun! Duuh! lol.

chhay says on November 10th, 2009 at 8:50 am

hard work is make people half crazy