The trick is to be quite senior, and befriend the IT people...
Let me start out by saying that when motivated I am a very good employee, and will give blood sweat and tears when required. However, piss me off and demotivate me and I tend to do sweet F.A. This post relates to me in the latter frame of mind.

A major part of being abe to skive off is being pretty senior, this is for several key reasons:
It's difficult to get in trouble for arsing about when you are the 'boss'. Therefore going for a boozy 2 hour lunch with like minded friends isn't a problem. Also you can schedule meetings and appointments for yourself and go surfing at 3pm (or to the pub).
You generally set your own workload and tasks. So if you don't feel like doing anything, then don't. Also if needed you can invent whatever excuses for delays etc. and no one can call you on it because you are the 'top guy'.
You often have your own office. If people see you sitting behind your desk engrossed in something they assume you are working hard. Not passing the hours on the myriad websites available for general distraction.

In addition to this being well 'in' with the people that do IT is vital. I don't know if I would work somewhere without internet access. And I would certainly try and access 'fun' websites and circumvent 'security' blocks. To this end recruit the IT people who are supposed to keep you out. In my last place we had a big 'swap meet' most weeks to exchange downloaded music and movies etc. By keeping them sweet I never found out whether anyone was monitoring the sites I accessed (many and varied) or for how long (8 hours a day).

In this way I passed about 9 months of my 'career' as a Financial Controller, earning shitloads of cash while doing exactly nothing. If it makes you feel better I still did a lot more than the MD who came into the office about 2 days a week and responded to my warnings about lack of profitability and dire financial outlook by giving himself a massive pay raise. I only left because I was so bored and sick of the sight of the twunt that I had to get a 'proper' job to save my sanity.

Anyway, the final plus side of being a senior level skiver is that you have plenty of cash in reserve if you or your employer pulls the plug and you can normally get an even more highly paid job off the back of your recent 'experience'. Cheers.

Length? About 9 months and thousands of forum posts...
(brycemonkey No fatal accidents since:, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:19, 1 reply)

Fecking hell
I'll have what he's having barman.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 17:29, closed)