Archive for slacker tips
Slacker Tips #223: The Art Of The Quick Cover-Up
As an effective slacker at work, you are probably accustomed to listening for people approaching your cubicle. Nothing can end the slacking at work quicker than someone coming up to your desk and catching you.
So, what do you do when you get surprised by someone approaching your desk?
You do the quick cover-up.
Just press ALT + [...]
Slacker Tips #222: Creating A Fake Job History
If you are anything like me, you have to leave off a few jobs on your resume. You know, the places that found out how little work you were doing and let you go. Er, fired you.
Yup, I have that problem too. But it is an easy to fix problem.
Create your own job history.
First, you [...]
Slacker Tip #221: Get Dirt On Your Co-Workers
You know that annoying co-worker that is just waiting to tell on you? That person is also probably doing something that they shouldn’t be doing at work. You just have to find out what.
If you can get some dirt like that on your co-workers, you will not have to worry about them turning you in [...]
Slacker Tip #220: Don’t Flaunt It
A surefire way to lose that cushy slacker job is by flaunting it. I have seen too many wannabe slackers do just that.
A good slacker knows that they keep to staying employed (and getting paid to do nothing) is to make everyone think you are doing something. This means that you must look busy all [...]
Slacker Tips #219: Create Your Own Fake Office Kid To Get Outta Work
Okay people, creating your own fake kid so that you can get out of work easier is super easy and super free. You may recall my invent a kid for work project from a few years ago. It was an awesome success. And that experience allows me to give you some awesome tips on creating [...]
Slacker Tip #218 - Buy A Box Of Blank Business Checks
Today’s slacker tip comes via a commenter. One awesome slacker out there takes making their own check stub seriously.
How seriously?
Well, apparently Office Depot (and I assume other office supply stores) sells boxes of blank business checks that anyone can buy. I assume these are made to be used with check printing software, like QuickBooks.
Anyways - [...]
Slacker Tip #217 - Make The IT Staff Your BFFs
When you start a new job, you should go out of your way to be nice to the IT staff. Why? Because they may very well be responsible for tracking your internet usage and turning you in.
Once you get friendly with them, you can even work at extracting info from them. You know, casually mention [...]
Slacker Tip #216 - Never Take Days Off Around A Holiday
As you may have noticed, everyone in the office wants to take days off around a holiday. And it can be any holiday - Easter, Labor Day and so on. That’s why you should never take days off around a holiday.
You see, everyone else will ask for it off. That means the office will be [...]
Slacker Tip #215 - Sleep In At Home By Doing Morning Tasks At Work
For me, the epitome of slacking at work is using work time to free up time at home. You can easily do this yourself in the mornings.
If you can, keep a coffee maker at your desk (or drink the bad office coffee). This way you only need to have one cup at home and can [...]
