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Messing with Other People’s Time Management

By Mark Shead 9 Comments

I write a lot about how to be more productive, but what if that really isn’t your thing? What if you don’t like productivity? What if your goal in life is to ruin productivity for other people?

In an effort to expand our readership to people striving for unproductivity, here are six things you can do to guarantee that your co-workers get as little done as possible. Productivity501 takes no responsibility for the results of actually implementing any of these ideas.

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  1. Randomly put entries on their calendar like: “1:30 meeting with John White Important!” or “Call Sally 535-321-1242”. Place them far enough in the future that they won’t suspect you did it.
  2. Write in fake delegated tasks and followup reminders: “Ask Joe for status of XYZ presentation.”
  3. Set up their copy of MS Word to autocorrect their boss’s name with “The Silly Clown” or “The Supreme Ruler of Canterbury”
  4. Switch their phone display to Hebrew.
  5. There are still a number of “Fax Back” services out there where you call in, select the documents you want and then give the system your fax number. Call in an use their desk phone or cell phone number.
  6. Put an ad on Craig’s List saying that you have 4 Superbowl, Hannah Montana, or Blueman Group tickets that you aren’t going to be able to use and you’ll give them away free to whoever tells you the funniest joke on the phone. List their work number.

Originally published April 01, 2008.

Filed Under: Time Tagged With: humor, jokes, Time

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  1. belasungkawa says

    April 1, 2008 at 2:27 am

    Hi, what’s the point in no [3] for?

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  2. belasungkawa says

    April 1, 2008 at 2:27 am

    Oh a joke, sorry =p

    Reply
  3. Whitedjo says

    April 1, 2008 at 2:59 am

    disappointing

    Reply
  4. admin says

    April 1, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Well it is April 1st. Evidently I am far to serious around here. :)

    Reply
  5. Freelance Guru says

    April 1, 2008 at 9:51 am

    All of a sudden I have a feeling some of my co-workers read your blog.

    Reply
  6. Alex says

    April 1, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    LOL.

    What about a serious post on the subject? How to deal with people who screw up your productivity? People who reschedule an appointment last minute, people with last minute requests, time burglars, unorganized people who screw your plans up, etc.

    Reply
  7. Mark Shead says

    April 1, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    @Alex – Try People Who Come to Distract You. It is along the lines of what you are looking for.

    Reply
  8. Abhimanyu says

    April 2, 2008 at 5:45 am

    LOL, This is a great post. I actually remember myself setting up friend’s phone display to Chinese… It was so funny…!!

    Reply
  9. Steven Handel says

    November 20, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    This would be fun to run as an anti-productivity experience. I bet you could even use the lessons to implement better productivity strategies in the future.

    Reply

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