What to do when bored at work

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Things to do when bored at work

1. Colour in yellow post it notes with yellow highlighter
2. Download new apps for your smart phone
3. Play with new apps on your smart phone
4. Go to the bathroom and change the part in your hair to the other side
5. Plan and book holidays
6. Plan and book activities for weekend; dinners, tickets to shows/sports
7. Look for other jobs
8. Nothing, just sit and stare at a blank screen and see how long it takes for someone to notice
9. Take off a shoe and put it on your desk and see how long it takes for someone to notice
10. Email conversations with friends
11. Read online newspapers, every article
12. Test the limits of the work
13. Make sculptures from office supplies
14. Force yourself into every conversation happening in the office
15. Practice signing your name to try and create a more elaborate and impressive signature
16. Teach yourself another language
17. Walk around the office looking for leftovers from catered meetings, and team morning teas and help yourself to anything you find
18. Take a book to the toilet and read
19.  Map out a route to walk around the office a so that you pass each desk once and only once
20. Time yourself walking the route you mapped
21. Try to beat your time.
22. Make yourself a coffee, even though you only drink tea just so you have a reason to go back to the kitchen to re-make your drink
23. Photocopy/print documents then put them straight in the recycling
24. Test the limits of the organisations spam and internet security filters
25. Book your self out for a meeting and just go shopping
26. On a Wednesday count how many people you can get to say “Hump-day”
27. On a Friday count how many people you can get to say “Thanks God It’s Friday”
28. Put red lids on the blue pens and blue lids on the red pens in the stationery cupboard, if you are really bored swap the end caps as well
29. Swap everything on your colleague’s desk to the other side so it is a mirror image of itself.
30. Drink!
31. Dial a random sequence of numbers on the work phone and see who answers and where in the world they are
32. Maintain a map on Google map dropping pins to show all of the places you have randomly called
33.  Take the Super Trooper challenge, and like the characters of the 2001 comedy film try and include the word “meow” in every sentence you speak
34. Clean your workstation like a person with OCD
35. Wink at every third person that passes your desk
36. Create a crossword using jargon specific  to your industry
37. Write a haiku poem
38. Recite you haiku poem for your colleagues
39. Go to the shared office lolly jar and see how many lollies you can fit into your mouth at once
40. Write lists and blog about them