Andromeda is an Engineering and Advertising, Illustration and Design double Major in Illinois. Waste some time in your stuffy cube. Take a much needed break. Check out these refreshing online games to keep you preoccupied from doing the actual work you get paid to do.
Slackers, unite! Online games to play at work. Quick, easy, fun and mildly addictive.
- Cubicle Coffee
Cubicle Coffee has a few cute and addictive games: * Dodge coworkers, bad coffee and your boss in “Escapa” . * Fry unsuspecting passers-by with your giant magnifying glass in “Ant City”. * You always have a tee-time here at “Mini Putt”.
- Vivarin Alertness Game
Children of the 80’s remember the game “Simon”. You remember, with the light patterns you have to play back? Vivarin has posted an alertness game just like this. It’s fun. Check it out before you start returning more emails. The work will be there la
- Adult Swim: Five Minutes To Kill Yourself
The object of the game is to kill yourself before you have to attend another drab meeting in five minutes. Using office supplies, the hand dryer in the restroom, a paper shredder and other dangerous office décor, you injure yourself until you die.
- Knife Throw 2-QuickFlashGames
Like the carnival or the circus? Try your hand at knife throwing. You can pick from 20 targets to put on the spinning wheel including George “Dub-Ya”, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Another game to help you get your frustrations out. Have fun!
Other Time Wasting Activities
1) Install a nerf basketball net on the side of a centrally located cubicle wall. Keep a small white board next to it for game tallies of H-O-R-S-E. Make sure all players have their own ball.
2) Play "I Spy" over the over the office intranet.
3) Email your significant other. Make sure not to complain about work. Rather, use mildy erotic genres to boost your mood, and his.
4) Bring a copy of the latest Harper's Bazaar. The 90 pages of the newest fabulous fasions can keep any woman's mind off of work.
5) Make dinner reservations online for you and your beau. Opentable.com lets you research local hot spots, make reservations and send the dinner invitations all in minutes and from your desktop.
Now Get Back To Work, Slacker
The time has come to return emails, take a few more phone calls or tend to other menial tasks before quitting time. Have a great day and make sure to remind the losers they are in charge of the java in the morning.