1002 Ways to Waste Your Working Time [Paperback]

Diagram Group (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1996

/KEPLER Chock full of charts, illustrations, tables, and maps, this authoritative guide provides page after page of ways to waste an employer's time and money. From dialing your own phone number to see if it's working to getting your calculator to spell words to photocopying various body parts, here are hundreds of ways to idle away the days at work. Illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: St Martins Pr (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312145349
• ISBN-13: 978-0312145347
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,945,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Surprise content, June 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1002 Ways to Waste Your Working Time (Paperback)

I bought this book intending it to be a joke "gag" gift for my boss. The synopsis makes it sound benign enough with suggestions like dialing your own phone # or getting your calculator to spell words. Even "xeroxing various body parts" sounds harmless. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that one of the ways to waste time is to imagine various sexual positions. This suggestion is accompanied by several fully illustrated pictures of a couple in sexual positions. Am I offended? No. But am I going to give this to my boss? I don't think so! I learned a lesson. If you want a book as a gift, & you aren't absolutely sure of the content, you're better off buying from a book store where you can actually touch the book (& look through it) before you buy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs a little refining., May 8, 2002

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Casey R Atkins (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1002 Ways to Waste Your Working Time (Paperback)

I liked a lot of the funny pictures and diagrams that really look like old text book illustrations. I think they need to do an updated edition with some better ideas though. There are also some "ways to waste your working time" that are repeated a few times although worded diffently. I know one of the things to do is to count things that have been repeated in the book, but still, thats cheating! :)

3.0 out of 5 stars Not How to Draw a Radish But a Lovely Book, October 27, 2010

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simone - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1002 Ways to Waste Your Working Time (Diagram Group) (Paperback)

I received this book as a gift and found the Victorian-style illustrations charming. While I've seen some of the ideas before, others are new fun ideas. Also this doesn't apply only to work. Many of the ideas could be used as conversation starters at casual parties, the kind of parties that don't discuss the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant.

Let's be clear that this is a joke book but it is not something that I'd give to a boss or display at work. It just isn't professional. That said, you might want to be aware of suggestions like Wink at Someone across the room or Show sexy photos to someone. I guess those are the objectionable sexual content that offended a previous reviewer?

All-in-all, this is a fine joke book but not for prudish types. If you're a normal person who understands that this is joke, buy it. Preferably used and for more than the low prices listed here.