Working in a cubicle can become rather blasé’ and downright boring at times. To deflect that impending feeling of boredom here are some great ways to pass the time.
Hand Eye Coordination
Bounce skittles candies off of the wall in front of you and into your mouth. Count how many times in a row you can actually catch them with your mouth.
Nap and Prayers
Take a nap. Simply lay your head on your desk and close your eyes. If any co workers or bosses approach simply say “Amen” and resume work as normal.
Target Practice
Set up a target or picture on the wall in front of you and use push pins as darts and see how many times you can hit the “bulls eye”.
Art Therapy
Make cool pictures on the wall in front of you with colored push pins.
Laws of Gravity
Test the laws of gravity by seeing how far you can balance leaning back in your chair, with out tipping it over.
Again test the laws of gravity by seeing how many drawers you can open in your filing cabinet, with out it tipping over.
Get Your Exercise
Do office Pilate’s by raising and lowering the level of your chair.
Alphabetize
Take all of the keys off of your keyboard and rearrange them in alphabetical order.
Programming
Program your screen saver on your computer to display meaningless statements that sound profound.
Be Poetic
Arrange all of the titles in your spam e-mail to form an abstract poem.
Page Co Workers
Randomly page your co workers and then quickly hang up the phone before they know it is you.
Make Urgent Phone Calls
Disguising your voice, call your office receptionist and ask to speak to you. When she says your line is busy insist that she interrupt you because this is an urgent call.
Use an online translator program to convert your latest inter office memo into a foreign language. Then forward it to all of your co workers.
Recycle
Make paper airplanes out of your co workers recycled papers. Then anonymously launch them over the top of you cubicle. Note: make sure you use your co workers recycled papers and not your own.
Compliment a Co Worker
Send an e-mail to an annoying co worker telling them how much you appreciate their obtrusive myopic insights.
Compose Memos
Using an online dictionary find the most obscure and complex terms and compose them into a memo and then send the memo to all of your co workers.
Be Clandestine
Conduct a phone call with an imaginary caller. Speak so quietly that the only thing your co workers will hear is “what if the rest of the staff finds out?”.
Create a Musical
Try to figure out how to play the theme to Gilligan’s Island on your telephone. Then see who’s number that calls.
Seek out Logic
Call up a co worker and ask, “If right left because left was right then left would be left right?”.
Be A Star
Send a manila envelope to yourself with your favorite celebrity’s name listed as the sender. When your co workers inquire about it tell them that you promised that you would not discuss it with anyone.
Sound Effects
Stay late at work or come in early one day. Hide a tape player above the ceiling tiles with a tape that continuously plays sound effects of a cat meowing.
Take Your Vitamins
Peel an orange and using a hidden squirt gun squirt unsuspecting co workers while mentioning how juicy your orange is.
Leave a Message
Call the receptionist 3 or 4 times and ask for someone who doesn’t work at your office. When she tells you there is no one by that name ask to leave a message anyway. After 3 or 4 phone calls call her back and pretend to be that person and ask if you have any messages.
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