I have a theory that everything in offices takes much less time to do than people use. Seriously how do people who work in offices have so much time to read blogs and crap? I think when they read blogs or do whatever it is they do besides their work, their managers come to the belief that their work takes much more time than it actually does, so they give extra time b/c of people not doing their job, so people doing the work have all this extra time to goof off. Does this make sense?

I am in law school so really I have nothing else to do, except for listen to the discussions, but why would I do that?

@Kayllnn

Oh definitely. When I actually DO do something in the amount of time it would really take me were I to focus, I get all these shocked responses, and disbelief. And then I sit around for three hours waiting for someone to give me something else to do. Part of that is probably because when you're new to a career, you may simply have fewer long term projects to work on. I don't know, but I do know that my fiance is almost always very very busy at work (or so he says...)

Funny enough, I just clicked on the pic to check it out & someone wondered into my office asking me a question!

MOAR Screen SHOTS!

I worked in an office for the first time this past summer as a law intern. When I was in high school I worked at Chick-Fil-A and eventually became a supervisor. Kinda sad but eh, high school w/e. So it was like a shock to my system to actually be able to sit down, and sometimes not have something to do. Office life is weird lol...

/waves to Jong's blog by proxy

@Grimm

Hahahah I was wondering how many people would catch that...

lol true story... I used to do alot of temp office work, and would always get whatever they wanted me to do done quite quickly, so I always brought a book to read.

One of my bosses literally said, "you can't sit here and read! Take this box of thousands of multicolored paperclips and pick out all of the pink ones and throw them away."

Really? Really?

@Hannah

I must say, this makes me feel a lot better about the fact that I spent all day yesterday whiting out a date on 55 printouts, that would have cost a total of 3 dollars to reprint.

Instead they paid me for 8 hours to do it.

I do this ALL the time. I've even made shortcuts in Windows to open certain blogs and also documents that everyone in my office uses a lot so I can quickly switch between things on the fly. I always wonder thou if everyone around me is doing the same thing....everyone looks paranoid when someone walks near their desk.

Haha I do this at work...I type up my blogs in the cells of my spreadsheets.

I talk on the phone to people all day and walk them through forms that I know by heart. I could probably browse while talking to them, but they also save screenshots of our desktops, and I don't think my manager would enjoy reading the merits of disc vs holy lol

I just read blogs through google reader :) it works for most blogs except for wow.com which has way too many pretty non-work-looking pictures. I def think my attention span went waaay down once I started playing wow a lot.

multi-tasking makes us a SUPERWOWEMAN! oh well maybe a different name for a hero?
>.< anyway, i do this too, i have like a notebook with me always, and just write it down there as my draft while at work. on my part though its not too difficult since i worked nights and other nurses doesn't care ahaha!

Me too! Notepad is awesome :-)

I also have a button on my browser which inserts CSS into any webpage. This removes most of the colours (I hate reading white text on black background websites) and images and what not.

Makes Wow websites look a lot more like plain text with some links in them.

Gobble gobble

Alternatively sit with your back to the wall, which is what I do and involves less cutting and pasting. Although I spend most of my time in libraries so it's mainly for my own self-delusions that I pretend I don't spend all day reading WoW blogs :)

Heehee. Glad I'm not alone.
Nice tip if you're reading WoW.com,
open it is http://i.wow.com/.
Its the mobile site and has much less pictures and frill so less likely to attract attention.