12 ways to amuse yourself during boring meetings
I spend half of my working hours at boring meetings trying to look important and attentive, so I’ve come up with 12 ways to combat the boredom.
1) See those pieces of paper with “Meeting Agenda” printed on them? Try making paper aeroplanes with them on your lap.
2) Now imagine one of the paper aeroplanes whizzing over your boss’s head.
3) Then you realise you could be fired for doing that and attempts to pay attention to the meeting.
4) As you have the attention span of an insect, your mind starts to wander again…
5) …and now you’re imagining your boss naked.
6) And he’s doing the macarena.
7) With pom-poms.
8) And a feather boa.
9) Snigger quietly to yourself and refuse to share the joke when your equally bored colleague asks you what’s so funny.
10) Then it hits you that a sight like this could possibly traumatise you for life.
11) Decide to do something more constructive instead, such as…
12) …compose time-wasting lists like this in your head for your next blogging opportunity.
Hey, at least I tried. This post has been brought to you by staff meeting 101.
Subscribe in a reader
Oh no, I shudder to think that my employees are imagining me in my birthday suit! Got to hit that gym soon!
Ok, I’ve got to stop making those paper planes at meetings now and pay more attention! LOL!
We think alike. Here’s the first surviving a staff meeting post I did ;-)
http://thewonderfulworldofnothing.blogspot.com/2007/04/repost-sunday-staff-meeting-tips-for.html
I spend most of my time trying to hold in gas so I don’t erupt and clear the room…
LOL @ the paper airplane suggestion! I’ll have to try that! Thanks.
Eric
Haha… it’s funny the things you think of when you’re stuck in a boring office meeting.
John Littner recently posted..Asus Eee Pad Transformer Specs and Features updated Sat Aug 20 2011 1:28 pm CDT