There should be a word in English the encompasses the art of looking busy. Maybe there is and I just haven't found it yet.
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f***ing off
Bureaucrat. Politician. Administrator. Activist.
Clipboarding
There’s also the “Costanza hack.”
What a great show.
"They dont make then like they used to."
The military tells officers to walk at "agitated pace" even when they're not in a hurry
simuloperare (adj.)
Simul-: From simulare, meaning "to imitate" or "to pretend."
Oper-: From operari, meaning "to work" or "to be busy."
-are: A common Latin verb ending that indicates action or state.
A person who behaves in this manner is called a simuloperarist.
No word that I know of but there is the classic phrase, “look busy, Jesus is coming” lol
Occupied 🤭
Productivity cosplay- pretending to be productive
It's called "fiat". 💁♂️
You're welcome in advance. 🤙
I don't know but usually Latte' carriers are in need of this word.
We kind of have one of those in Chinese:
摆忙 - posing busy
We have 扮工， which sounds exactly like 辦公 😅
When I worked in a bar, we called it “the glass shuffle” - Literally moving glasses from up and down, left to right. Looking busy whenever you were 1 minute out from your break so you wouldn’t get another job asked of you that eats into your break!
I think the phrase is a thing!
Ah, B- Role bartending. I like doing that with wine glasses and a microfiber towel. 👌
Working hard or hardly working! *Loud gawfawing*