The Absolute Best Ways to Waste Time at Work

Here's a list of the absolute best ways to waste time at work. I hope it provides you with stress relief, boredom relief, coworker or boss relief ... whatever kind of relief you may need. You know your place of employment a whole lot better than I do, so I'm sure you could come up with way better stuff, but maybe this list will spark some ideas for you. Happy Slacking!

1. Have you checked your bids on eBay? Don't let that vintage Gucci handbag get away from you!

2. www.woot.com has a special deal today. It's so special, I can't even tell you about it. (Then I'd have to kill you.) Time to visit now!

3. E-mail your friend and find out how his (or her) date went last night. Then offer dating advice for next time. You don't want your friend to be single forever, do you? Hello -- you have a responsibility here!

4. That vacation of yours is coming up pretty quickly - heck, nine months away is nothing! Time to start planning now. Did you know that www.farecompare.com will help you access at least 500,000 travel websites? All those windows popping up at once will really impress your boss, even if you're not making travel arrangements for her.

5. www.overstock.com is having yet another sale on fancy watches. Don't you need a nice watch? Didn't your boss just blast you for using your cell phone to keep track of time? How about it? Oh, look - 100 pages of nothing but watches. You absolutely must view them all. Nothing like an informed consumer ...

6. That eBay marketing book your friend suggested sounds terrific. Why not read ten or twenty pages of it on Amazon? You don't want to waste perfectly good money on a book, after all. This is one of the top absolute best ways to waste time at work. It takes hours to scroll through those pages ...

7. Check out a few of those online games. (Sorry for suggesting this close to the end - I know how popular these are, and this really should have been Item #1.) This is another great way to waste time at work, particularly if you can play with other bored workers all over the world. How's the weather in India today?

8. Research how other people waste time at work. Here's a great survey to give you an idea: http://www.salary.com/personal/layoutscripts/psnl_articles.asp?tab=psn&cat=cat011&ser=ser033∂=par1083

9. Find that perfect birthday card for your friend. It has to have just the right tone, so you don't get him mad. If it involves a subscription sign-up, so be it. Plunk down the money and don't think twice about it. It's not like there's a recession or anything.

10. Read this article again!

Thanks for reading, and according to the survey listed above, you have two hours to waste today. Better get started now!