At work, especially in an office job, things can get a little slow and boring. Try some of the things on this list to lift your boredom!
1. Write for Associated Content. It combats boredom and makes you money at the same time!
2. Listen to music
3. Eat pretzels or any other snack that gets stuck in your teeth; digging the food particles out of your teeth is sure to pass the time.
4. Chew gum and try to blow huge bubbles
5. Watch Youtube videos
6. Clean the dirt under your fingernails
8. Stick your gum under someone’s desk
9. Eat a pomegranite; count the seeds
10. Syphon gas from other employees cars
11. Pretend that you are in a racecar; make the cool noises too.
12. Draw on yourself
13. Go to the bathroom (bring a book).
14. Count the ceiling tiles/the dots on the ceiling
15. Meow like a kitten
16. Bring a watermelon in to work with you; incessently ask others if they’d like a piece
17. Construct a mini-catapult for paper flinging
19. Go to the vending machine, but leave your money at the desk so you can pass more time by having to go back and grab it.
20. Look through the files on your computer
21. Look at funny pictures on the internet
22. Stumble (StumbleUpon.com)
23. Watch the trees blow in the breeze.
24. Look on Amazon.com for cool stuf
25. Twiddle your thumbs
26. Change the staples in your stapler
27. Steal office supplies
28. Run around the building a few times
29. Practice flipping the bird
30. Eat
31. Walk around
32. Look up a recipe to make for dinner
33. Play the Helicopter game (addictinggames.com)
34. Answer questions at Yahoo answers
35. Look up your horoscope
36. Personalize desk items e.g. draw a face on your pencil and name it Johnson
37. Chew gum
38. If your building has an elevator, ride it at least 20 times bottom to top
39. Do origami
40. Practice money origami
41. Find a solution to the global food crisis
42. Watch your favorite television show on Hulu
43. Learn how to bake cookies (off the internet)
44. Write a book
45. Write a poem
46. Talk to co-workers
47. Write recipes down so you don’t forget them
48. Buy candy for everyone in the building
49. Tie your shoes over and over again
50. Make up anagrams
51. Contemplate a tattoo design
52. Try and write with your non-dominant hand
53. Look up a solution to that leaky faucet
54. Write your dissertation
55. Write your own obituary
57. Write other people’s obituaries
58. Bring your dog to work on “Bring your child to work day”
59. Set up a fish tank on your desk
60. Figure out how to convert your car to run on ethanol fuel
61. Light up a joint
62. Go to bored.com
63. Dip in to the petty cash funds
64. Devise ways to frame people for stealing paper clips
65. Figure out how to nickel and dime the IRS on your next tax return
66. Call everyone “Bob”
67. Learn how to write in all possible font styles
68. Learn how to type with your eyes closed
69. Sleep
70. Knit a welcome mat for your desk area
71. Grow a potted plant on your desk
72. Name your plant
73. Stick it to the man
74. Bring a brick of cheese and cut slices for everyone
75. Set up a laser barrier around your desk
76. Make up a password for the space around your desk
77. Enforce the password rule
78. Don’t respond to anyone unless they call you by your full name
79. Put a “Beware of dog” sign on your desk
80. Set an easy bake oven under your desk and make treats for everyone
81. Sign up for an online class
82. Read “Mein Kampf”
83. Recite the ABC’s in a sing-song manner
84. Bring a mini-keyboard so you can practice at work
85. Only speak to people through a megaphone
86. Blast new age techno music
87. Ask everyone if their going to Corn Fest (even if you don’t have one)
88. Trim the shrubbery in front of the office building
89. Hide the toilet paper rolls
90. Hack into the other office computers
91. Claim you are the boss; order everyone around
92. Sell stamps from your desk
93. Set up an information kiosk, with maps of the building showing the best vending machines
94. Start a parody office newsletter
95. Grind wheat into flour
96. Set up a tip jar on your desk
97. Change the background on your computer
98. Print your astral natal chart
99. Put a crystal ball on your desk and ask cowokers if they’d like a reading
100. Study greek
101. See if you can leave work early
