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Indispensable office skills

1. Never walk without a document in your hand! People with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings. People with nothing in their hands look like they’re heading for the canteen. People with a newspaper in their hand look like they’re heading for the toilet. Above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you all night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.
2. Use computers to look busy! Any time you use a computer, it looks like “work” to a casual observer. You can send and receive personal e-mail, chat and generally have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work. These aren’t exactly the societal benefits that the proponents of the computer revolution would like to talk about, but  they’re not bad either. When you get caught by your boss – and you will get caught – your best defense is to claim your teaching yourself to use now softwares, thus saving valuables training expenses.
3. Messy desk! Top management can get away with a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like we’re not working hard enough. Build huge piles of documents around your workspace. To the observer, last year’s work looks the same as today’s work; it’s volume that counts! Pile the high and wide. If you know somebody is coming to your desk, burry the document you’ll need halfway down in an existing stuck and rummage for it when he/she arrives.
4. Voice mail! Never answer your phone if you have voice mail. People don’t call you just because they want to give you something for nothing – they call because they want YOU to work for THEM. It’s no way to live. Screen all your calls through voice mail. If somebody gives a voice mail message  for you and it’s sound like impending work, respond during lunch hour, when you know they’re not there – it looks like you’re hardworking and constientious even though you’re being a devious weasel.
5. Looking impatient and annoyed! Allawys try to look impatient and annoyed to give your bosses the impression that you are always busy.
6. Leave the office late! Always leave the office late, especially when the boss is still around. You could read magazines or storybooks that you always wanted to read but have no time until late before leaving. Make sure you walk past the boss’ room on your way out. Send important emails at uneartly hours (e.g. 9:35pm, 7:05 am) and during public holidays.
7. Creative Sighing for effect! Sigh loudly when there are many peolple around, giving the impression that you are under extreme pressure.
8. Stacking strategy. It is not enough to pile lots of documents on the table. Put lots of books on the floor etc. (thick computer manuals are the best)
9. Build vocabulary. Read up on some computer magazines and pick out all the jargon and new products. Use the phrases freely when in conversation with bosses. Remember: they don’t have to understand what you say, but you still sound impressive.
10. Have 2 jackets. If you work in a big open plan office, always leave a speare jacket draped over the back of your seat. This gives the impression that you are still on the premises. The second jacket should be worn while swanning around elsewhere.
11. Most IMPORTANT! Don’t forward this to your boss by mistake!