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More tips to Appear Busy

  1. Always have multiple projects going. 
  2. Create the illusion of furious activity whenever possible. 
  3. Emphasize the tremendous amount of work you’re accomplishing. 
  4. Ask a lot of questions. 
  5. Fabricate major obstacles or developments that require you to go back to the drawing board. 
  6. Open several of the applications you normally use for work and have them visible on your computer’s desktop. 
  7. Be alert. 
  8. Watch out for Big Brother. 
  9. Trick the watchers. 
  10. Slack off a little bit at a time. 
  11. Place a pencil or pen behind your ear to give the impression that you are writing down so much important information that if it were possible, your hand itself would be a writing instrument. 
  12.  Take a stack of industry magazines with you to the bathroom. Mark them up with sticky notes and wrinkle the pages. 
  13. Visit friends in different departments, leaving your workspace very "busy" looking. 
  14. Drink lots of water. 
  15. Create meetings in Outlook with realistic sounding names. 
  16. For a good catch-all, open a couple programs that you use daily. 
  17. Always, always carry a backup prop.
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