Check Facebook. Make Tea. Repeat.
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1. Make a show of describing your "terrible" journey to work.
2. Go to the canteen to buy toast to recover.
3. Bump into your mate from accounts and gossip about your nemesis in marketing.
4. Make a cup of tea.
5. Have a quick look at the news on the internet while you eat your toast.
6. Check Facebook.
7. Check Twitter.
8. Check Instagram.
9. Check Facebook again.
10. Have a look at your emails. 382!
11. Decide you need to "get on top of your inbox" before you get stuck into work.
12. Think you could probably do with another cup of tea before you crack on.
13. Offer your whole department a cup of tea.
14. What, no milk left? Sure, you don't mind nipping out for some!
15. Instagram a funny pub chalkboard you see on the way to the shop #bants.
16. Swing by accounts on your way back up to ask about an invoice…
17. …and show them your funny picture.
18. Make tea for your department.
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19. Announce that you are "snowed" and can't do anything until you've sorted these emails.
20. Mark the important-looking ones as unread and come back to them later.
21. Why not make a load of folders and categorise them before reading too?
22. Tweet about what a nerd you are for making your "geeky email folders".
23. Make another cup of tea.
24. Check your Twitter notifications to see if anyone's favourited your email geek joke.
25. Have a look at Facebook and see a notification that it's a friend's birthday.
26. Google image search 'happy birthday lol' to find something good to post on their wall.
27. Click on a quiz link your mate's posted.
28. Tell your Facebook how psyched you are that an Otter is your spirit animal.
29. Look at Twitter notifications for RTs and favourites on your nerd joke again.
30. New emails since you've last checked – organise them in your new folders.
31. Have a look at the intranet to see what's on the canteen menu today.
32. Tweet "Burgers for lunch! #getin #foodofchamps".
33. Read "urgent" email from your marketing nemesis about a brief you've apparently missed.
34. Go and talk to your marketing nemesis who has obv not made what they want clear if you've not done it.
35. Insist to them that you've never seen said brief before.
36. Call all brief "stakeholders" to a meeting to go over it again.
37. Go to the canteen for meeting snacks.
38. Go to the bathroom while you're up.
39. Make tea for the meeting.
40. Stop off at your friend in design's desk afterwards to bitch about marketing nemesis.
41. Check Facebook.
42. Check Twitter.
43. Check Instagram.
44. Check Facebook again.