Staving off the office boredom.

It is the ever-so-present boredom that comes along with an 8-5’er. The time when the clock ticks to 2:30pm and you realize that you have been staring at a computer screen with Outlook opened and no new messages in your inbox. How to stave the boredom off, how to properly complain about it, and how to make it work for you. All this and more if you so valiantly choose to read on…

My boredom threshold is ridiculously low and yet, for some masochistic reason, I find myself applying to desk jobs over and over again. Each time embarking upon my new job with the thought of, “well, this one could be different!” As many of you out there are probably giggling and shaking your heads at me while thinking, “they are never different.” Yes, I have learned this the hard way. Yes, I have contemplated getting paid minimum wage while wearing a hair net, rather than spending my valuable time browsing MySpace and waiting for the phone to ring at my office. But alas, I sit here at the ole’ office chair and boredom has inevitably consumed my mind. Yet, for my own benefit [and possibly for yours, too], I have devised a genius list of “boredom busters.” Give them a whirl, see if they strike your fancy, or at least see if one hour passes with the thought of, “when will that stupid clock say 5pm!?”

1. Get Yahoo! Messenger and have another boredom-ridden friend sign up with you. Yahoo! offers all types of two-player [or multi-player] games. I especially recommend checkers, for if you play it with a colleague of the opposite sex, many’a joke can be made about the act of “jumping” each other. Who doesn’t like to pass the time with a game full of sexual innuendos? It’s about time these desk jobs get spiced up!
2. Tickle.com tests. Have you ever wanted to know the color of your aura? How about your panty personality? And I know, no doubt about it, that you want to know what your animal magnetism is. Well, Tickle.com can offer you the answers to these questions AND MORE! Answer the hypothetical questions honestly and, within seconds, so much of you will be revealed! Well, okay, not really anything about you will be revealed, but it is quite entertaining to know what “your lips say about you…”
3. Zone out into oblivion. Okay, so this isn’t a very productive boredom buster, but it sure dumbs you down for a couple minutes. Meaning: if you can’t THINK about being bored, then you must NOT be bored. This logic is genius, don’t you think?
4. Compile a chain letter that threatens a life without love and a swift death if the receiver does not pass it on in five hours and four minutes. See how many of your friends return it to you and then laugh at how gullible they were to fall for it.
5. Write blogs like this one.

Well, there you have it. A list of five exceedingly un-boring things to do while stuck at work. Throw us a comment