Overworked and Loving It: The Fine Art of Looking Busy
Master the art of workplace invisibility by faking productivity, dodging raises, and avoiding recognition like it's a trap—all while perfecting your spreadsheet-staring skills.
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Master the art of workplace invisibility by faking productivity, dodging raises, and avoiding recognition like it's a trap—all while perfecting your spreadsheet-staring skills.
Start your date by unpacking your emotional baggage, comparing them to your exes, and hinting at baby names—because nothing says romance like immediate pressure and unresolved trauma.
Declare a daily winner of your love with a public leaderboard that pits your kids against each other like fridge-magnet gladiators.
Transform your fridge into your new office, because productivity peaks when you're inches away from cheese and mid-nap carb comas count as self-care.
Let the stars make all your life choices, blame your problems on planetary alignments, and dump people because Mercury’s having a bad week.
Uncle Bobby swears the best way to dodge engagement is to stop showering, forget birthdays, and pretend you're on a solo soul-searching mission through the cosmos.
Forget asking for a raise—Uncle Bobby says the secret to success is working yourself silly for free and hoping your boss rewards you with a coffee coupon in five years.
Uncle Bobby says to lead like a tyrant: set impossible deadlines, confuse everyone on purpose, and hog all the credit while dodging every ounce of blame.
Forget ambition—Uncle Bobby insists the secret to happiness is doing absolutely nothing new and treating opportunity like a contagious disease.
Strut in late, hoard your coffee, shout over your coworkers, and remind everyone how much better your last job was—because nothing says "team player" like acting too important to remember names.
Skip sleep, ditch your family, and install a desk cot—Uncle Bobby's blueprint for glory is to outwork everyone until burnout becomes your brand.
Uncle Bobby says the secret to success is perfecting laziness, showing up late, napping in the break room, and confusing your boss into either promoting or paying you to leave.