How to Relieve Boredom in your Cubicle

Working in a cubicle can become rather blasé and downright boring at times. In order to deflect that impending feeling of boredom here are some great ways to pass the time.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• One bored employee working in a cubicle.
• One great imagination.

1. Working in a cubicle can become rather blasé and downright boring at times. In order to deflect that impending feeling of boredom here are some great ways to pass the time.
   
   Count how many times in a row you can bounce skittles candies off of the wall in front of you and into your mouth.
   
   Take a nap and catch up on some of those zzz's. Simply lay your head on your desk and close your eyes. If any co workers or bosses approach simply say “Amen” and resume work as normal.
   
   Set up a target or picture on the wall in front of you and use push pins as darts and see how many times you can hit the “bulls eye”.
   
   Create a mosaic and make cool pictures on the wall in front of you with colored push pins.
2. Test the laws of gravity by seeing how far you can balance. Simply lean back in your chair with out tipping it over.
   
   Again test the laws of gravity by seeing how many drawers you can open in your filing cabinet with out tipping the filing cabinet over.
   
   Keep fit by doing office Pilate's. Simply raise and lower the level of your chair repeatedly.
   
   Take all of the keys off of your keyboard and rearrange them in alphabetical order. Or turn them into some sort of saying using all of the keys when you rearrange them.
3. Program your screen saver on your computer to display meaningless statements that sound profound.
   
   Arrange all of the titles in your spam e-mail to form an abstract poem. E-mail your new poem to your friends, family and co workers for their opinion.
   
   Randomly page your co workers at their desks and then quickly hang up the phone before they know it is you.
   
   Disguise your voice, then call your office receptionist and ask to speak to you. When she says your line is busy insist that she interrupt you because this is an urgent call.
4. Use one of those online translator programs and convert your latest inter office memo into a foreign language. Then forward it to all of your coworkers.
   
   Make paper airplanes out of your coworkers recycled papers. Anonymously launch your new airplane collection over the top of you cubicle. Note: make sure you use your coworkers recycled papers and not your own.
   
   Send an e-mail to an annoying co worker telling them how much you appreciate their obtrusive myopic insights.
   
   Using an online dictionary find the most obscure and complex terms and compose them into a memo and then send the memo to all of your co workers.
5. Conduct a phone call with an imaginary caller. Speak so softly that the only thing your coworkers will hear is “what if the rest of the staff finds out?”.
   
   Send a manila envelope to yourself with your favorite celebrity's name listed as the sender. When your co workers inquire about it tell them that you promised that you would not discuss it with anyone.
   
   Stay late at work or come in early one day. Hide a tape player above the ceiling tiles with a tape that continuously plays sound effects of a cat meowing.
   
   Peel an orange and using a hidden squirt gun squirt unsuspecting co workers while mentioning how juicy your orange is.
   
   Call the receptionist 3 or 4 times and ask for someone who doesn't work at your office. When she tells you there is no one by that name ask to leave a message anyway. After 3 or 4 phone calls call her back and pretend to be that person and ask if you have any messages.
   
   Write articles like this in your spare time.

Tips & Warnings

• Be creative, see what you can come up with to look busy.
• Do not attempt if your boss does not have a sense of humor. You might not get away with this and wind up fired!