things to do on a sick day
Other than recovering, of course, are there certain job-related activities that you could do while home on a sick day? Sure, the key is to find medium to high visibility, but low to medium brain power tasks. This will maximize your efforts to continually project a “star employee” image to your manager.
Examples:
- reading old manager email
- reading old marketing email
- taking required courses (web-based)
- updating web pages for which you’re responsible
- closing old defects as “no change/unreproducible”
- updating work breakdown schedules
Fun (but low-value) alternatives:
- your normal web/blog reading
- catching up on usenet
- reading irc scrollback
- posting on your personal blog
Note that I do not feel that performing the first set of activities is in any way Machiavellian or unethical. They are all legitimate “to do” items. You’re just optimizing the timing of when you perform said items.
Feel free to suggest your own ideas in the comments section.
2006
21
Mar
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