The document provides a 3-step plan to appear busy at work: 1. Arrange your workspace to look disorganized with notes and a messy desk. 2. Act busy by checking your watch, walking fast, and eating at your desk without smiling. 3. Pretend to work by taking notes, staring at screens, using your computer, and making triumphant sounds.

1. How to act like busy?
Compiled By
Nalaka Gamage
(auoracs.lk)

2. The three step plan
1. Arrange your environment so that
you look busy
2. Pretend that you are in a busy
3. Making It seem like you’re working

3. (1) Arrange your
environment so that you
look busy

4. Have a filthy desk

5. Put Post-it Notes all over your
office

6. (2) Pretend that you are in
a busy

7. Check your watch heaps

8. Walk really fast everywhere

9. Eat lunch at your desk

10. DON'T SMILE

11. (3) Making it seem like
you’re working

12. Take some notes

13. Stare at the board or
screen

14. Play around on your
computer

15. Use a landline instead of
mobile phone

16. Say something like “AHA!”
triumphantly & raise a fist

17. Hold everything you own

18. Take one actual business call a
day and be loud as hell

19. Send a late night email

20. Sigh a lot

21. Disable the sleep mode on your
computer screen

22. Tell everyone how busy you are

23. Final caution….!
• Most others know that you
are just pretending busy…,
so no point trying any of
these….. 

24. References
• https://www.buzzfeed.com/matwhitehead/helen-is-all-of-
us?utm_term=.oqDPOowkQ#.suevNeg8n
• http://www.mtv.co.uk/life/news/22-ways-to-look-busy-at-
work-while-doing-absolutely-nothing

25. Thank You !
Aurora Computer Studies
(auoracs.lk)

26. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit."
~ Aristotle.
Aurora Computer Studies
(www.auroracs.lk)
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Maharagama.
0115 690 290
City Study Center
Aurora Computer Studies,
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BOC Building,
High Level Road,
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