13 Nearly Antisocial Ways to Indulge in the Cyberslacking Ritual
Cyberslacking is all the rage. Most folks enjoy the ’social media’ scene, preferring to check myspace or facebook messages during the work day. Evidence of this is the latest coverage of site blocking by major companies. They know what’s up and they opt to totally block these famous sites.Found in last week’s news:
Are You Cyberslacking? Click here. - Reuters Blogs
10 Ways to Cyberslack - Reuters News (do these guys ever actually work?!)
Don’t Let Your Boss Catch You Reading This! - PC World
Are You Banned from Social Media Sites At Work? - BBC Radio Online
I’m not one of the social media-ites so I have devised another solution for those of you looking to waste even more time at your job. That’s right, no actual work. Here’s my 13 step plan…enjoy!
2. Download desktop wallpapers at NBC’s The Office official website
3. Edit your blog
4. Edit your 2nd blog
5. Edit your 3rd blog
6. Edit your 4th blog
7. Promote your blog (the first one)
8. Leave comments on your most favorite 50 blogs
9. Promote your other 3 blogs you hardly have time to write in since you’re so busy editing the design of blog #1
10. Check your site stats
11. Check your Technorati ranking
12. Check your sites’ disc space usage
13. Repeat
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I used to go to a site called http://www.ishouldbeworking.com. Yeah, great work ethic there. :(
Mine’s up, stop by for visit!
Surely people wouldn’t spend their work time doing that?? ;)
Actually, I have fired ppl for spending their work day online. Most companies can keep an eye on how their employees are spending time on the computer. So its best to be careful :)
Our sys admin actually checks the logs each day just to see what sites folks are going to. We also have vnc installed on every PC to let the owner sighlently see our screens whenever he feels like it! We’ve got night vision video cameras too…
Surfing isn’t an issue here unless it’s excessive, inappropriate, or takes up more time than your work. If you’re always online AND behind you’re in big trouble…
(I try to stay out of trouble by blogging during scheduled breaks and between projects during slow times…)
This got me thinking…I’m a SAHM so I guess I cyberslack a lot…whenever I’m on and the kids are up. They’re in bed now so I’m ok. Just during the day is when I’m like - “in a minute”, after I leave this comment I’ll come…”
heh, I do it too. I say ‘just a minute’… ‘15 more minutes’.
Here’s a positive view on cyberslacking: A friend of mine who is a creative/artistic type personality as opposed to an organized and quantitiative/analytic type enlightened me of it’s virtues. She said that she does not do her best thinking/creating when tied to one spot and forced to focus. When she is given free reign to roam, then ideas flood in and her creativity flows. So obviously there can be valuable inspiration in cyberslacking. :)