Favorite Strategies to Avoid Doing Actual Work at Work on Gamedays
So I've been sitting at work all day and have stopped pretending doing anything 'work' related for the past 3 hours or so and have been refreshing MGoBlog, Twitter, and other football-related sites for hot takes all day - also I'm so nervous for tonight I'm sweating.
Currently in my office, screen tilted away from the doorway, and some paperwork strewn across my desk acting like I'm doing some analysis attempting to look 'too busy to be bothered' and headphones in listening to A Saturday Tradition on repeat.
What's everyone's best/favorite way to avoid looking like you're working on big sports days like this or do you just take a sick day and say 'eff it'?
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
isnt that why we are all on MgoBlog???
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
I'm sitting here in my office, glued to MGo.
MAKE WITH THE PREVIEW BRIAN!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
But I just happened to get the flu or food poisoning or something. Good news is I know I'll be fine tomorrow.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
One of the main reasons to become an entrepreneur!
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
I am doing some brain dead work just to keep myself busy
September 3rd, 2015 at 3:35 PM ^
Always take the last week of summer off. Had to clean the carpet earlier to kill time. Dos Equis now, because I am the most interesting man in the world. Sober by game time? I'll bet the over.
September 3rd, 2015 at 3:47 PM ^
Nobody cares. Yay!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
Conference call / WebEx meeting post-it note with the office door shut.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
I'm also going with the closed office door for most of today. Long lunch break was an absolute necessity as well.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
looking for adequate hype videos on youtube for the powerpoint intro.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
I too am mgoblogging on a conference call, #circlejerk
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:36 PM ^
Work from home
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September 3rd, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
Don't go to work.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
Not work! At the gym getting my sweat on then going to the grocery store for beer and party like food for tonight!
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September 3rd, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
Just cracked a beer after jumping in neighbs pool and started the smoker. In more than one way. All while getting paid. Glory to the lord. Go Blue
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September 3rd, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
I have an important deadline at 1pm tuesday and am not working tomorrow.
This is around the time that I start to tag <Ignore()> on unit tests that break and lI skip steps 2 and 3 of the Fail Fast Mantra:
1. Make it Work
2. Make it Right
3. Make it Fast
4. ??
5. Profit
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^
Ah yes. I generally find the easiest way to fix unit tests is to comment them out.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^
I like to think that there's an understanding at the office today.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:40 PM ^
Dave Brandon owes my company a refund for my salary today...
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:40 PM ^
Try living in Singapore...games are on in the AM. Although then it's hard to sleep.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^
Instead of having to constantly refresh twitter, use tweetdeck: https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
I have dual monitors at my desk, montior 1 is visible to all that walk by, monitor 2 is semi-hidden.
Monitor 1 has about 3 different pdfs, 2 spreadsheets, a word document and Outlook open scattered around the screen - so a lot is going on. Monitor 2 has two Google Chrome tabs open - Tweetdeck and MGoBlog.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
Guest speaker in class today, so crazy bored! Grading projects it is!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
work on the Penske file.
In actuality, the good thing about college football is that the day before, or in this case the day of the game, are usually days where not a whole lot is getting done anyway. On any given Friday (In this case thursday due to holiday), my productively and the productivity in my office is down anyway so it really doesn't make much of a difference.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
Great Seinfeld reference. Two thumbs up!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
I am working from 3-11 this evening.
I thought I would be fine, as I normally am the only one in my department after 5p & the work slows to the point where 9/10 of the time I am pretty much left alone. If there is anything to fix, I take care of it. (I also don't have cable at home. At work where there is a nice little television in front of me with DirecTV.)
So they bumped a coworker to full time for this expansion we are doing and to get him hours they have him working with me tonight. Ok. It gives me someone to do the work if need be. He'd be cool with it. Yay!
Then they schedule a new guy to train from 7-11. I am now faced with having to train somebody while the game is on. Should have taken the day off.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
Gotta fake a sickness
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
sporcale quizes
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
Knows that I'm not to be relied upon for anything even remotely important and/or time-sensitive within 1 day of gameday on either end. I've made sure to make this clear in my interviews for any job. I'm sure I've missed out on a lot of jobs because of it, but the jobs I've had were very football friendly.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
I respect your telling potential bosses this. I will continue being a weasle.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
I took today and Friday off..if I had not, I would have done nothing all day anyway.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
Boss told me to turn my second monitor so it wasn't visable from the hallway. Yes, she's awesome.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:48 PM ^
I put on my headset to pretend im on a conference call. Key is to actually open a conference line and just dial in.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^
glad you know how to use them!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
I just do the same things I do when avoiding work every other day! I love having a job with no accountability. I actually hate it, but I'm trying to be positive today because Harbaugh!! Plus Brady is free at last. A good day to be Blue.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
Reading the Brady decision took a couple of hours.
Then there is the MGoblog content....glad I got up at 5 and started working. Billable hours after 10 AM zero, and little chance of getting more work done today.
Are you ready for some football? Bet your ass I am.....Go Blue!!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:53 PM ^
since I decided at 35 to go back to school full-time, I am going to procrastinate on these two papers and lab report! There's always tomorrow, right? I can't focus on anything but Michigan football!
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
where it really pays to have a boss in a different city. I'm "working," but definitely not straining myself. And I'm fairly certain tomorrow will be a work from home day.
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:58 PM ^
In training with a security screen on the laptop. Unless someone is directly behind me, they can't see anything I'm doing
September 3rd, 2015 at 1:59 PM ^
Maybe turn on a pre-recorded CLE?
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^
I just have to say there's nothing I enjoy more than the optimism and genuine excitement in this post. After the past 7 years it really does feel like the fan base is "coming out of the womb."
As for your question I'm not sure I've done one thing remotely productive other than make a shopping list to pick up on my lunch break for tonight.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
Me? I'm actually working, for the most part. As long as I can get out of here by 6 or so I should be in front of my TV by kickoff. So I'm checking the blog every now and then, otherwise I'm keeping things going so I can walk out when I really need to.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
I'm 33 and retired, so no need to worry about that, thankfully.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
How the hell do you retire by 33?! And is there a 3 year fasttrack I can get on to do the same?
September 3rd, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^
Make smart investments.
September 3rd, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
3 ways.
1) Born into a wealthy family
2) Create a stupid app that some company buys for $10 million
3) lottery
September 3rd, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
Mr. Money Mustache
Good investments (total market index funds from a low-fee broker) plus being really frugal. He went pretty overboard with it, but following some of his advice will help anyone retire early.
September 3rd, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
This is hilarious. I was going to post the exact same thing, got called into a meeting, and then came back and saw this.