Useless office skills

If you're reading mental_floss at work, you're probably already looking for ways to decrease your productivity. Author Rick Davis is one of the world's leading experts on office time-wastage -- even going so far as to found the Institute for Totally Useless Skills -- and his treatise on useless office skills represents the pinnacle of his ongoing research. If you want to get started right away, here are a few examples. Time's a-wastin'!

The Endless Fax
1. Make two copies of a heartfelt message
2. Tape them together. Feed them to your fax machine
and start sending.
3. When the other end comes out, tape it to the second sheet to form a loop.
4. Go on a nice, long vacation.

Auld Lang Syne
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Frere Jacques
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