George Costanza's Tips for Working Hard III

Messy desk. Top management can get away with a cleandesk. For the rest of us, it looks like you’re not workinghard enough. Build huge piles of documents around yourworkspace. To the observer, last year’s work looks the sameas today’s work; it’s volume that counts. Pile them high andwide. If you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, burythe document you’ll need halfway down in an existing stackand rummage for it when he/she arrives.