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| CW at about 6 PM Friday |
So if you're following me on Twitter (and let's be honest, I know you're not, but you should) you had front row seats as I live Tweeted my way through the official 4th least productive work day of the year (1. Day after Christmas, 2 and 3. first Thursday and Friday of March Madness 4. Black Friday), just a blow by blow stream of tweets detailing a procrastinator at the top of his game...But since most of you aren't following me on Twitter, here's a brief summary of the Top 10 Things I did at Work on Black Friday:
1. Cleared My E-Mail box out - this took all of 10 minutes, it was easily the most "work friendly" task I completed all day.
2. E-mailed the Maestro on the plight of our working conditions and checked up on our daily levels of antipathy towards our respective jobs, good news, all time highs!
3. Twittered...A LOT. - So much so that my battery ran down to empty before lunch. Had to go ask a co-worker if I could borrow his charger just so I could get through the day, made up some story about forgetting to plug in the phone last night and streaming music on Pandora, because lets be honest, you can't just walk around the office telling people you've been working so hard on your twitter game that your phone's battery died at 11:30 AM
4. TGI-Fridays for an extra long lunch consisting of a burger, a couple beers, and a good chunk of the LSU-Arkansas game. I think if my work knew they had the choice of either paying me for overtime, or extended lunches watching college football, they'd probably defer to overtime. But they don't know, and don't have the choice.
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| those two spikes? Weds and Fri. |
5. Checked out my Klout score - My Klout score went through the roof Wednesday and Friday, and I can't help but notice that it directly correlates to my lack of actual productivity at work...I like that if HR ever calls me about the fact that I contributed exactly 0 to the company over those two days, I'll at least have evidence that I really was doing something, it just wasn't an employer friendly something, that's all.
6. The Wikipedia "Random Article" Button - Which was fun for like 45 minutes until it brought me to this: Dyke March. Maybe its time for Wikipedia to get two different random article buttons, one safe for work and one NSFW (note, its ok if you're at work and click it, just don't scroll down beneath the opening shot like I did). Kind of put damper on the Random Article button for me.
7. Watched the Hockey game streaming on NBC.com - My company blocks every streaming service you can think of, somehow all 12 or so males in the office on Friday figured out we could stream the Bruins game live, though...It was a Black Friday Miracle!
8. Regretted those beers from lunch - I spent the hour of 3 PM - 4 PM debating whether I could get away with sleeping under my cube, George Costanza style. Ultimately I decided not to...I was the highest ranking member of my group in the office that day, it just wouldn't set a good precedent...Twitter all day and watching live sports on my computer is one thing, but I draw the line at actually sleeping in the office.
9. Walked Around with an Especially Hurried and Important Gate To Fill Up My Water Bottle - A specialty of mine, I'll just storm out of my cube with a ridiculously serious face on and a walking pace that could only be described as "faking being annoyed and overworked." It's so over the top its obvious, yet somehow it works...as long as my team members see the appearance of me working hard, they'll work harder...Which of course allows me to slack off, because they're doing all the work.
