Ways to Look Busy

1. Emailing looks like work This trick always work like a charm, instead of getting busted by your boss of having porn or Bejeweled on your monitor. Email screen always has been a great time killer. Heck just glancing at spam on you regular work alone would already give you half hour worth of appearance of working. Also Email anyone often, I dont care its your grandma typing plus Email screen equal look busy.
2. Get Involved participate on unquantifiable projects. You want to do a lot of consulting and advising. Your attendance alone in the meeting room already guaranteed the mark of a go-getter. Heck even though you dont know what they talking about.
3. Bitch about your job description. This one in particular is a trade secret of the middle managers, thats how they maintain their job position to the top level guy and look productive. This is considered work even though its fun for them to walk all over you, learned to play at their own game bitch about your job too !
4. If you feel like talking instead of hammering a TPS report, just talk to your boss. That will automatically count as work no matter the subject are, the ideal conversation might be how poorly your co-workers are performing.