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Did you get stuck with weekend duty at work? Are you just plain bored at your job? Sitting in an office all day may not be the most exciting way to spend your time, but that does not mean that you can't make the most of it. And when I say "most of it" I am definitely not referring to increasing your productivity—the following gadgets will destroy any chance of that. However, they will certainly help keep you entertained until quittin' time—especially on a Friday afternoon.
Sleeping:
Generally, when things are slow at work, sleep is the first thing that comes to my mind. This compact Executive Hammock can help you indulge in a serious power nap. Available for $15.99. [1ofakindstuff]
Arts and Crafts:
You might find that downtime at work is a perfect time to indulge in your passions. Take building weapons out of common office supplies for example. It satisfies both your need to create and that stress-induced urge towards violence that is bubbling just underneath the surface. Here we have a lovely rubber band based projectile launcher and a stapler that doubles as a spiked club. [Office Guns and Strange Cosmos]
Desktop Toys/Games:
There are plenty of cool desktop games and toys out there, like the Gangster Shoot Shooting Gallery and the Rollerscape Roller Coaster Construction Set. The objective with Gangster Shoot is simple—you have three lives and a gun. Try and shoot the mobsters before they shoot you. The Rollerscape kit builds on a Tinkertoy theme allowing users to construct complex marble roller coasters. The shooting gallery and the roller coaster construction set are available for $34.95 and $29.99 respectively. [Gangster Shoot and Rollerscape]
Desktop curling? Eh...not so much. Available for around $20. [Alt-Gifts]
Fight Club:
The purpose of Fight Club is to use fighting as a form of psychotherapy. And if you are stuck at work chances are you could use a little stress relief. Pummel your way to happiness by challenging your co-workers to a karate throwdown using these inflatable karate hands and feet or go medieval with the lifesize foam latex warrior weapons set. Available for around $27 and $49-$59 respectively. [Inflatable Karate Set and Lifesize Warrior Weapons]
Throw a Party:
If you are going to throw a serious party in the office the first thing you are going to need is music, which you undoubtedly have stored on a computer or an MP3 player. The next thing you will need is some ambiance. This USB powered Disco Ball and Mirror Ball combo should do the trick nicely. Available for $11.99 and around $21 respectively. [Disco Ball and Mirror Ball]
After ambiance comes beer. The Avanti MBD5L Mini Pub is small enough to fit on a desktop, but it can dispense beer from a standard 5 liter keg and adjust the frostiness of your brew to a temperature of your choosing. Everything you need to get the party started is included for around $200. [Beverage Factory]
How about a little immature live entertainment to keep the party going? The H.E. Fartsalot Musical Butt Puppet plays "Old MacDonald," "Frere Jacques," or "London Bridge," when you insert your hand into his open torso cavity. Available for around $25. [Smutty Gifts]
Pranks:
When all else fails you can always resort to pulling pranks on your co-workers—and this Phantom Keystroker is one of the best by far. Just hook it up to your victim's computer via USB and laugh as it moves their mouse cursor around and types meaningless text at random intervals. If you are not getting anything done, no one is. Available for $24.99. [ThinkGeek via Link]
Comments
pfft... I need no help slacking off at work.
As I sit here, vegetating amongst my office peripherals and doodles, I now know that my den of slackerdom is not yet complete.
Additions:
dont forget a rockboxed PMP for solitaire on the shitter
@shamoononon: I need help. All of the fun people got fired or quit.
The most fun I can have now is using skype to call all the numbers in my building at once.
I love the phantom keystroker. I put these on about 15 computers one morning. And yes I did get the company to pay for it. IT thought we had a terrible virus. Talk about douchebaggery......
Can't resist, but isn't that Prince Harry in the main pic with Molly Shannon?
I don't need any of those things. That's what Gizmodo is for!
@jdhuck: That's Kathy Griffin and Woz's secret assistant iGore.
In one of our offices we had strips of anechoic foam. The interns and staff used to use the bits as lances for jousting and as foam bats to whack each other. It all ended when a former boss rounded a corner as was whacked by foam bits. We honestly thought she was out of the office. She didn't say anything, she didn't need to. She just turned around and went back to her office.
Quite frankly, an we were a lot more efficient when we had bits of time to relax.
I work from home with no supervision and am a big gadget freak. Need I list what my slacker gadgets are? Of course, my schedule is more like 24/7 rather than the normal 9-5 as I'm always on call but I still find a little time to slack off :)
That last one is just plain mean. I gotta get one!
I like to VPN into all our clients servers, pull up remote desktop, and mess with what people are typing in emails and what not.
"Are we confirmed for the conference call on fridLOBSTER FUCK FUCK KITTENS LOL ALLYOURBASEAREBELONGTOUS"
@Kaiser-Machead: KG never looked that good (not that the lady in the pic looks good). But to quote/mutilate another Mel Brokks classic, 'I see her schwartz is as big than mine'(I wish).
OK wtf is she doing with that balloon?
@jdhuck: You don't want a schwartz that big. Sure, it's fun for bragging and attracting superwhores that will likely carry it for you as you walk down the street...but........
I got nothin.
@jdhuck: And she is saying best "job" ever!
@Kaiser-Machead: ...but you can't use a urinal without totally dropping trou. And sitting on the crapper will result in a cold dip in the pool, if ya git ma drift.
@Kaiser-Machead: Me either....
@jdhuck: I thought that looked like Marilyn Manson on the left!
@jdhuck: If it's not, it should be.
@jdhuck: I'm blocked from a lot of the chat stuff, but coming up with strange questions to ask google such as 'What the hell is ' and posting phony craigslist adds seems to help. I really have the gimp shopping down to a T so there are some really interesting apartments for rent in my area.
@jdhuck: I just read the rest of your comment... sadly our systems are way too secure for that kind of fun.
@workingonyourinvoice: Wait? Do you work at myOMGROFL LOLCOPTERffice?
she has a big duck on the first pic hehehe
All of the above = Teh fired.
You gotta love it- he's wearing Ben Wa balls around his neck, she's gripping a huge purple penis, there is an upside down twig and berries on the wall in the back. This is like a porno version of "Where's Waldo (Dildo)"
@jdhuck: @Kaiser-Machead: That looks like the guy from the MS Surface post: The one with the American Gladiatoress babe -- or a very young David Letterman....
Slacking off at work? I thought that's what gizmodo was for.
@Mathray: HA HA!!!
At my work, he best prank was when some guys opened the boss's monitor one night and installed that remote controlled fart sound-maker in the casing (back when monitors were still boxy CRT's). The boss would flip out every time he heard it, going crazy trying to find it. They took turns passing around the remote and setting it off as they walked by, careful not to cause him to associate any one person's presence with the fart sound. Sometime they would let days or weeks go by until starting at it again. He never figured out where (or who) it was (being a very big office). Eventually the batteries ran out. The end.
At my last job, we didn't need to do anything to make the boss look like an idiot.
Remember that big internet worm that caused so much havoc worldwide? There were only two computers in the entire building that got hit with it--my boss's and the server. Coincidence that her brother worked in IT? I think not.
Uhmmm...
You forgot one thing...
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