12 Ways of Pretending to be Busy @ Work

My dear software janta, hope the following ways would be your life saver and god knows, it  can even get you great ratings in your appraisals. Probably you might already be doing them. Just get to know some ways that you might not have known all this while.

  1. Make minesweeper or your gtalk window super small towards the corner of the screen and keep the mail from your manager super big. Switch between them.
  2. Print out papers that might seem important and shuffle them often to show that you are actually referring some documents.
  3. Walk to the vending machine and back to your desk. Walk to the vending machine back again and to your desk.
  4. Organize your desk and keep your project papers, staplers, paper holders neatly arranged.
  5. Have lunch/snacks at your desk to fool the people around that you are really busy to get up and leave your desk for lunch.
  6. Keep a minimum of 16 tabs of firefox or chrome open. The desktop should contain at least 12 windows minimized with the word documents and excel sheets spread across your desktop.
  7. Send yourself mails marked important  from different email accounts, so when other people notices your inbox, they may feel that you are into something really important for the project and lot of people need your expertise.
  8. Open a word document and start typing whatever that comes to your mind from the first thing you did in the morning to whatever you are doing currently. Make sure that you never stop typing.
  9. Keep folders full of papers next to you. Take some papers out, put them back. Keep juggling with the papers every 45 minutes.
  10. Go towards the window and keep staring outside. Pretend that you are seriously thinking about the bug you just found and the ways to fix it.
  11. Roll over a bunch of papers and walk with them always.
  12. Actually do some work for which you are paid and feel happy that you at least have a job (unlike me ).