Pass time

When you have nothing to do in an office and you can’t really spend your day watching soft porn, cute puppies videos on Youtube, or even redoing your CV, you start doing things that you would never do in real life.

Indeed, open desk office space has always been bad news for miserable middle managers. Get found by a staff on youtube suffer 50% of team sickness as a result!

So when you are bored, not only your brain looks for pathetic highlights - such as the fact that it is Thursday : one day before Friday and 2 days before the weekend...or pathetic low lights – such as being told off for being late for a very non important meeting... but it also looks for stuff to check out on the internet (that don’t bear flashy images). 

First you look for stuff that are relevant to your job/industry. Do some self training, learn about the industry, check the industry news, waste some time on Linkedin. You can do that at least one hour per day, if you have enough energy. Or if you are like me, you develop obsessive habits linked to paranoia such as checking  who’s been on your Linkedin profile 20 times per hour. Yeah just in case a top recruiter at your dream company had checked you out.

Linkedin is amazing, you can waste so much time on it....and not feel bad about it. Join stupid forums, check people’s CV, try to understand why less experienced and younger fuckers are senior managers and not you.

There are other stuff to do : check out blogs! Blogs of pathetic people like me, celebrity blogs....but these have a lot of flashy pictures. You can also make friends on forums. Forums of expats, forums of people that share the same miserable passion as you, such as riding children scooters, or blow drying. I have a passion for blow dries, didn’t you know that? Learn so many techniques that don’t work, I have the dullest hair ever.

But the best stuff are the stuff that you can share! Don’t share them on Monday morning...actually don’t share them until Friday because it may cost you some credibility. But on Friday, nobody works. I mean in most companies anyway. Friday is the day of Krispy Kreams, email jokes and funny forwards.

Here is an example, it is a test.

No it is not the purity test where everyone score 10/200 because it is cool to be dirty and pretend to have had threeways with men. It is a random test that you can actually do at work without being caught and called a lazy ass.

Here it is : http://www.guardian.co.uk/​science/quiz/2012/mar/13/quiz-​are-you-an-introvert?INTCMP=​ILCNETTXT3487

Here is my score :

You scored 11 out of a possible 20

You have a tendency towards being introvert. The higher your score, the more introvert you probably are. The nearer to 10 your score is, the nearer to being an ambivert you are (yes, there really is such a word). But even if you answered every single question as an introvert or extrovert, that doesn’t mean that your behaviour is predictable across all circumstances. We can’t say that every introvert is a bookworm or every extrovert wears lampshades at parties any more than we can say that every woman is a natural consensus-builder and every man loves contact sports. As Jung felicitously put it, “There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

So what? I have a tendency to be an introvert but nearer to be an ambivert? Who is the psycho who wrote this shit?

Anyway, the highlight of my day is that I had lunch with myself today, and myself and I had an amazing salad. Unfortunately it was so stressful for me to chose the ingredients that I don’t think I will have one ever again.

No picture today, I am blogging from work!!