Appear Busy While Using a Computer

For people in school/work who use a computer on a daily/hourly basis, this is a guide in order to look more productive while actually not doing anything.

Steps

  1. If you have a scheduled assignment. keep it in the task bar and prepare to fast-click to it at a second's notice.
  2. Intersperse work with downtime by working for a few moments followed by IMing, Facebooking, Googling, or whatever it is you feel like doing. This way you can relax and do your job at the same time.
  3. Write a Wikihow on something you know. It looks like work, and takes a good amount of typing to do. It's a perfect cover.
  4. If you're at home with a laptop then try sitting with your back to a wall. That way no one can see what you're doing. Do a lot of typing that looks productive.
  5. Make sure that even if you aren't doing much work, have something that looks like work open, such as an end of quarter PowerPoint or something of the sort.

Tips

  • If you are at work, a library, or any other public place, it may be a good idea to strategically place open books, folders, or papers on and around your desk or table. Be sure to turn the pages once in a while, or pretend to read them, to increase believability.
  • When somebody tells you something, don't answer immediately and say, 'Shhh! Can't you see I'm busy? I can't focus both at you and at what I'm doing now!'
  • In Windows, hitting the Windows and the D key simultaneously will take you to your Desktop instantly.
  • If you get caught, be prepared with an excuse. Keep it real!
  • If you're working online and using a tabbed web browser, it's simple to do anything you want in one tab while doing work in another. Or, try installing a remote access software such as LogMeIn on your computer, which is accessible by browser, so you can access your home computer and do stuff from anywhere.
  • It's easier to appear busy if you actually are busy! Play a game or go on wikihow, it's more fun than just sitting there.
  • Using a proxy can usually bypass filters/blocking software, but it can get you in trouble with the school IT director, so try to avoid it if you can
  • Turn down/off the volume of the computer, as the bleeps and bloops of IM and other messengers will tip you off.
  • Practice using the Alt-Tab strategy. You can immediately switch to another open program without using the mouse.
  • Don't spend the whole period doing this. You need to do your work; this is just for little breaks you might need.
  • You can always keep open a work file. For instance: If you're on Myspace, or email when you should be writing a paper, keep the paper opened but minimized.
  • Always look serious. Try not to laugh!

Warnings

  • Don't appear to be too interested, that is a sign that you're not doing work.
  • You might get caught, be alert at all times.
  • Don't click out of something fast, that will draw a teacher or professors attention. Just calmly click into another page or always go to Yahoo.com or Google!
  • Don't play Solitaire/Minesweeper/any other silly game if you want to appear busy. Being caught doing something as trivial as that only shows how bored you really are.

Things You'll Need

  • Computer
  • Time
  • Skills in covering up
  • A power level of roughly >9000

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