Best Practices : More effective ways to utilize office hours

....remember Ramesh’s  and Suresh’s work life in office? Here are some more secretes from Ramesh’s armory. These are well tested best practices which can be followed in office , specially if you are in IT or have access to basic amenities like computer, printer, mail room, canteen, phone, etc. For sure these gems will help you in utilizing your time efficiently and in loving what you do at work.

Don't you think it’s hilarious people like Suresh, never understand that there are so many ways to appear as a busiest hard worker on earth,  to impress your bosses without degrading personal health, personal life and personal values.And there is another category of flamboyant , multi threaded people like Ramesh who do so many thing but except work and live happy. What is acceptable or unacceptable at workplace, you got to decide this. Below is what I found from Ramesh’s.

By virtue of Technology:

• Do your computer's hard disks defragmentation  often.

• Install any of your preferred tool software which takes lots of time in installation and configuration. Earn some moments (hours) to relax.

• Run Windows/Office update every morning, possibly your machine/applications will not work as expected after that for the first time.

• Open some IT tickets, take backup of outlook/lotus notes  etc (Ask for a new keyboard, mouse, best is OS reinstall)

• Forward chain emails to your friends and their friends wait for their replies.  

• Play computer games over LAN.

• Pay all your bills online from office, credit card, Amex , phone bill, property tax , broadband etc. then take out printout of all such bills and their online receipts.

• Book Railways, Bus and Air ticket from office. You get the benefit of faster Internet connection and you save your precious time.

• Open DMAT account and do online trading during peak trading hours.

• Clean mouse’s base with any sharp object, for sure it will have some dust stuck to its base, and this friction is restricting your free movements.

• Not for forget Facebook , Google+ , Youtube , online news etc..

By virtue of IPR :

• Talk about the traffic jam at outer Ring-road or any such road near your office.

• Discuss new upcoming apartment project by new builders in Bangalore or India or may be in US.

• Design logo for your team’s T-shirt for some outbound activity, order T shirts and check your T-shirt sizes in office trial room. 

• Participate in every extracurricular activity in office.

• Starting Thursday, start planning for your weekend travel and engagements. Use office phone.

• Discuss your child’s progress over phone with your wife, use office phone.

• Talk to your local relatives from office phone.

• Use office Gym during office hours and stay healthy.

• Go to the farthest located hospital for checkup, during office time.

• Call LIC, Bank, and Investment planning agents and similar people like them in office during office hours and understand their policies.

• Complaint against food, transport , facilities, services , finance, HR , security and other support departments.

• Go outside for lunch everyday , call it team building activity.

• Receive posts , couriers , parcels at office address.

• Get your wrist injured while arm wrestling with another colleague (I met one of my old colleague last week, who had his right wrist wrapped in a brown colored bandage ).

Above is for sure not the complete list, there are definitely other useful keys. On behalf of Ramesh, thanks in advance if you share your observations and add them in the comments section below.  

~bd

Disclaimer:

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real experiences , real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Its just a wild imagination.


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