Archive for slacker tips
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Slacker Tip #214 – Keep A Messy Desk
If you keep your desk neat, so that everything is in order, it will be obvious when you are not working. Having a consistently messy desk means that no one has any clue if you have accomplished anything for the day. Plus, keeping it messy makes it look like you are constantly working. Yup, people [...]
Slacker Tip #213 – How To Get Away With Reading A Book At Work
If you don’t have internet access at work, or if you just want to do something that won’t get caught, you can try reading a book at work. I know what you’re thinking. If you are reading a book at your desk, someone is bound to notice that the James Patterson novel is not work [...]
