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&lt;p&gt;What are the classic office loafing tactics? I&#39;m not asking because I want you to learn them, of course. I&#39;m asking so you can spot the malingerers and secretly judge them while grinding out another important but thankless project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Columbia Business School professor Eric Abrahamson, in a recent &lt;em&gt;Forbes&lt;/em&gt; piece, pointed out some classic tactics employed by people who get paid to do nothing&amp;mdash;&quot;Michelangelos of work avoidance,&quot; he calls them, Dalis of dawdling, as I will now not likely call them. Here are a few mentioned in the article.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Out of Sight, Out of Mind:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If people don&#39;t think of you, they can&#39;t give you work,&quot; Abrahamson says. Other ways to accomplish that: Arrive at different, unpredictable times of day. Work from home. Set up your schedule so that you frequently change locations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Put on a Happy, Clueless Face &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The principal here is that you try to give work to a person and come to the conclusion that they can&#39;t even understand the instructions,&quot; Abrahamson explains. In such a case most bosses will figure it&#39;s easier to do the work themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I Did That&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;A time-tested tactic for work avoidance: Take credit for the work of others. Especially popular in academia and in political circles and among senior executives, the idea is to grab the glory for a project that you merely supervised or got started rather than spent hours executing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tech-Enabled Hoodwinking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can program your e-mail to send messages in the wee hours while you&#39;re asleep, to give the appearance that you&#39;re toiling away at 2 a.m. Or you can program your computer screen, on which you&#39;re playing your 17th game of solitaire, to display an Excel spreadsheet at the press of a key if you see the boss approaching. &quot;It&#39;s a whole new loafing medium,&quot; Abrahamson says. &quot;Cyberloafing is the work avoidance of the future.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Forbes]&lt;/p&gt;

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