Friday, October 31, 2008

How to NOT be productive...

I think I could pretty much give a seminar on what to do at work...when you have no work to do.
First, make sure that you've exhausted all of your resources to make sure that there are no projects you can be working on. This may sound stupid at first seeing as how I'm about to tell you what to do other than work...however, at some point you will begin wondering "seriously, I'm starting to feel bad, isn't there anything I can be doing???" Just nip this one in the bud and make sure people know you are available so that if something does come up - you can have some credibility for doing other than what is to follow.
It is best to attempt being non-productive with your work when you have other stuff going on in your life, such as in my case - a wedding in the future. Other topics may be throwing a party for a holiday or Birthday, being pregnant, buying a new car or house, remodeling, etc... If you have nothing to plan for in your future - you might as well use this time to look for a new job. Please remember to minimize your windows and scroll so that the title of the career search website (i.e. Career Builder, Monster, Yahoo Jobs, or like this window: Blogger) is not blaring so that everyone that walks by can fully see that you are most definitely not working - at all, not even a little bit!
Don't underestimate the minimizing window thing - it is imperative with whatever you are doing at work if it is not work.
Here's what I did today: I printed out my guest list, made a key with 30 different symbols and sorted the guests in to groups (my family, his family, head table, friends, friends I don't care if they sit near or far from me, etc...) [He he on that last one!] I then went back in to the spreadsheet (which are easily camouflaged, just scroll down if you have a header on the top line - everyone will think you have a really complex spreadsheet going on) and cut and pasted names in to the groups. I then numbered paper 1-10 and made copies so I could start arranging names for table assignments - do this in pencil, you will change it a million times.

I'm going to stop the lesson there, I feel like I should insert a note like "thanks for reading this excerpt from my seminar/book, please click here to go to my website where you can purchase the rest...". I think by now you get the point that it is 11:23 a.m. and I have yet to do anything related to work today.

Oh, and I also researched all-inclusive honeymoons earlier too.

Please still keep your fingers crossed for Miracle Ear to call me ---- SOON!!!!

1 comment:

d-people said...

LOL! Definitely prayin for a new job for you!