How to be Annoying at Work

By One2One Magazine Thursday,July 14, 2011

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  • Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell people you’re waiting for your document.
  • Insist that your e-mail address be “zena_goddess_of_fire@companyname.com”
  • Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them to sign a waiver.
  • Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.
  • Send email to yourself engaging yourself in an intelligent debate about the direction of one of your company’s products. Forward the e-mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the disagreement.
  • Page yourself over the intercom. (Don’t disguise your voice.)
  • Name all your pens and insist that meetings can’t begin until they’re all present.
  • Come to work in your pajamas.
  • Put a picture of your mother on your business card.
  • Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.)
  • Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. “That’s a good point Sparky.” “No, I’m sorry. I’m going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi.”
  • Suggest that beer be put in the soda machine.
  • Include a piece of your children’s artwork as a cover page for all reports that you write. (If you don’t have children, draw stick figures yourself.)
  • Schedule meetings for 4:14 pm.
  • Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.
  • Agree to organize the company Christmas party. Hold it at McDonald’s Playland. Charge everyone $15 each.
  • Send email to the rest of the company telling them what you’re doing. For example “If anyone needs me I’ll be in the bathroom.”
  • No matter what anyone asks you, reply “Okay.”
  • Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it “IN.”
  • Plant a hedge around your cubicle.
  • Put your headphones on whenever the boss comes into the office. Talk in a loud voice. Remove your headphones when he or she leaves.
  • Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
  • Compose all your e-mail in rhyming couplets.
  • Install a set of buttons and lights in the arm of your chair. Talk into your day timer.
  • Organize a carpool. Go to pick everyone up in a taxi.
  • Hang mistletoe over your desk.
  • Bring in dishes that you tried to cook but didn’t turn out quite right as special treats for your co-workers.
  • While sitting at your desk, pretend you are “Madge” and soak your fingers in “Palmolive”.
  • Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.
  • Decorate your office with pictures of Cindy Brady and Danny Partridge. Try to pass them off as your children.
  • Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

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