Looking Busy At Your Internship

Here are 13 simple and easy-to-follow steps to always ensure you look busy at your internship.

Step 1. Always ask a lot of questions. Make them sound complicated so your co-workers think you really are interested in what you do. Ask them frequently. If you think of a really good one, ask it to multiple people.

Step 2. After your foreign co-worker has tried to explain something to you for the fourth time, even though you still don't understand what they are saying, nod, pretend to think for a second and say, "that is a valid point" then say thank you and walk away.

Step 3. Make sure there are lots of papers around your work area.

Step 4. Take many trips to the water fountain.

Step 5. When walking around the building, carry important-looking documents. This will make sure nobody even thinks about questioning what you're doing.

Step 6. Walk really fast when leaving your desk. If you see your manager coming, look down at your watch and start running.

Step 7. Print out a long random document, highlight random things, and say its for "Bill".

Step 8. Clean out your desk. This doesn't require any work, but makes you look busy.

Step 9. Make sure your filing cabinet is unorganized and unlabled. This way it takes you a very long time to find what you're looking for.

Step 10. When browsing the internet, copy and paste what you're reading into Microsoft Word. Change the fonts and formatting. Your co-workers will think you have researched valuable information.

Step 11. Send work to your manager at night. This way he/she will think you work at home.

Step 12. Walk around with your saftey glasses on and ear plugs in. People will think you're going somewhere important and won't bother to talk to you because you can't hear them.

Step 13. Have a fake spreadsheet open at all times. Make sure it looks very complicated and is always ready to be displayed on your monitor. Make sure the name sounds legit. Attached is a worksheet on "Projected Demand" which you can download and use for this purpose.

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