In any work there are rummages and downtime. 10 "bad" tips will help you with this.
10. Look impatient and annoyed
You probably know firsthand how difficult it is to cope with yourself when there is a lot of work. A man overwhelmed with work, involuntarily begins to get nervous, annoyed over trifles. He drives everyone, nervously taps his fingers on the table, throws documents, casts sidelong glances at his fellow idlers. Create this look, and everyone around, including your formidable boss, will be sure that you are head over heels in work. But do not overdo it, do not allow yourself to raise your voice at your colleagues if they are not in your direct submission, otherwise a conflict may arise. And then, believe me, they will find a way to take revenge on you.
9. Use voicemail
You should not answer calls from bosses and colleagues if you have an answering machine. In most cases, they call you to give you a new assignment, which may not have anything to do with your direct duties. If you agree at least once to help colleagues from another department who are sewing up and do not have time to complete the project, you will help them until you quit. If you follow the boss’s request and follow his instructions to go to the post office while the courier is on vacation, or solve the client’s problems while his manager is on sick leave, then consider that everything is gone. You will become a lifesaver for the boss. Therefore, turn on the answering machine, and let someone else do the extra duties. Yes, just remember to call back, preferably at lunchtime, or at the end of the day. Then everyone will forget what they wanted from you.
8. Inhale louder
As soon as you notice that they are watching you, or there are a lot of people standing next to you, begin to sigh. Sigh louder, as if a heavy load of unsolvable problems has fallen on you. Everyone around you will think that you have a lot of work, you are constantly in a state of nervous tension. But be prepared for the fact that especially compassionate colleagues will begin to ask questions and offer their help. Create a legend, preferably believable. Do not go into details, otherwise you may be caught lying. And of course, thank for the sympathy and the help offered, just don’t try to accept it. You yourself do not know what to do, or have you already forgotten?
7. Never walk around the office without documents in your hands.
An employee who walks around the office empty-handed gives the impression of a loafer. People think that he is going to a smoking room or to a coffee machine. Although in fact he is going to solve important issues in the neighboring department. But the employee who holds the documents in his hands seems passionate about work. Even if you talk with a pretty colleague, no one will have a shadow of doubt that your conversations are on a personal topic. After all, it was not for nothing that you carried such a huge pile of papers with you. Yes, by the way, you can even drink coffee. Nobody will say a word to you. People around you will only sympathize that you don’t even have a sip of coffee.
6. Keep mess all the time on your desk
If the office worker has perfect cleanliness on the desk, then he is not busy with anything. A person who focuses exclusively on working on a desk has heaps of documents. He constantly writes something, sorting through them. But again, prepare for the fact that your boss may come up to you and ask what you are doing. If you answer that you are analyzing the work of the department over the past year, and on the table you will have documents of a completely different nature, he may suspect something.
5. Create your own vocabulary
Spend quite a bit of time to find out as much as possible new information about the scope of your work. If you are a programmer, more computer words, if an accountant - more terms, links to legislation, if a sales manager - various "selling" techniques. In a conversation with your boss, use these words. Your boss will most likely not understand anything, but he will be ashamed to ask an ordinary employee what this means. At the same time, he will feel great respect for you, from now on in his eyes you will become a valuable employee who knows what even his superiors do not know.
4. Optimize your blockage strategy
Do not limit yourself to the desktop, use the space around you. Put next to your desk boxes of documents, books on your specifics. Then everyone around you will think that you are solving important issues for which you are using all kinds of sources of information. This method is convenient in that it reduces the number of people who want to come to you. All the space around you is a complete blockage. But be careful so that by the end of the day you, in the literal sense, are not littered with documents.
3. Use a computer to look busy
In the age of modern technology, you can quite successfully combine business with pleasure. You can smartly sit on social networks or frown at playing a scarf. Of course, provided that no one looks into your computer. Just work through your legend in case someone catches you by surprise. You can say that you study methods of sales through social networks or check how effective a five-minute rest is.
2. Do not fall for it!
Perhaps the most important thing in imitating violent activity is not to come across. Otherwise, your boss will stop trusting you. You will never again be able to relax in the workplace. You will be controlled, "hang" on you additional duties. Then you will no longer imitate sighs and irritation, you will have to give all your best. If your boss does not accept even a five-minute rest, he may deprive you of a bonus. Whatever your boss does, it is best that this does not happen. Therefore, do everything not to get caught.
1. Leave the office later
If you regularly leave the office later than everyone else, then you deserve respect. You do not want to go home, as soon as the cherished figure appears on the watch, do not count the minutes until the end of the day. You are able to linger in order to resolve current issues and prepare for tomorrow. By the way, this is a great excuse for superiors. If you linger all the time, your boss may think that you do not have time to fulfill your duties during the working day. If he asks you why you are not in a hurry to go home, say that you are preparing for tomorrow or have decided to look for additional sources of profit, make a list of potential customers.
Now you know how you can relax at work. However, do not resort to these methods very often, otherwise you may be left without work.