do you know the pretend-to-be-busy tribe?  

there is a special kind of people. they are invariably white-collarworkers. instead of "hello", they greet each other with "are you busy lately?" their answers always indicate they are too busy. their desks are forever stacked with piles of documents. and they can hardly turn away from the computer screen any time of the day. it looks as if they are workaholics. only that they are not. they just pretend to be. they are called the pretend-to-be-busy tribe. often times, their pile-up documents are just papers which should have been thrown into the waste basket a long time ago. the computer screen? the most common trick is to paste a novel into a work-related word document. in fact, there are many more tricks that you did not know. why do they do this? the monotony of nine-to-five, the fear of losing face if the other colleagues appear busy, and the experience that hard work has not been recognized...forget all these farfetched excuses. they just want to goof off.