5. Getting Coffee - Sometimes, if you’re really bored, you can just get up and walk really slowly to the coffee maker. This can shave a good 5 to 10 minutes off the clock. Carrying papers with you makes you look more official.
4. Reading the News - CNN is always a nice diversion, and if you get caught, you can just say you’re keeping up with current events.
3. Staring straight ahead - If you work at it, you can actually train yourself to shut off your brain and stare at a spreadsheet for long periods of time. Hours can disappear like seconds.
2. The Daily Email - chatting it up with friends makes the day more bearable.
1. Bathroom trips - Nothing is more satisfying than dropping a deuce on the company dime!
The teacher’s guide to wasting time at work:
1. Take the long way back to your classroom…no one needs to know you really don’t have to go around the library
2. Stop by the other teacher’s classrooms
to talkto gather more resources3. Make photocopies… Course you’re out of luck when someone volunteers to do em for you
4. Take a few trips to the vending machines…when you’re talking all day, its easy to use getting water as an excuse
5. Draw on the board…I mean um, uh write the homework and some notes for the students