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Are you worried that your boss could crack down on you for goofing² around? We got the email yesterday.

We did.

Don't use your email at work for fun stuff, and our next guest says you know what? (Illegal stuff) or illegal stuff. Goofing off online at the office may actually be a good thing, a good thing.

Look who it is, Rod Kurtz is with Inc magazine of course, (of course) you have a great website as well, what's the website?

Inc. com. (Inc. com)
And if you want to look at it at work, that's ok.
That's cool?

So wasting time is OK at work? What do you mean?

Wasting time, well, let's look at the numbers ---760 billion dollars that's what we are talking about in loss productivity people goofing off at work. (Well, that's bad) You gotta be careful though, you can always twist the numbers, you know how it is. And people are actually more productive in other ways, so they may be looking at (How? ) well, take it for example, if you're on a shopping website at work, people aren't taking lunch hours anymore to go out shopping. They may do it for 15 minutes online instead of an hour outside the office.

Yes, they are. They're still. . . they are goofing around they're surfing and they are also. . .

OK, this present company included. (Yeah, exactly)

Why not see? We turn our laptops for a second. (You got a lot tough right here, got it. ) Now, what about this? In our greenroom right now, we got the interns³ playing cards around the. . .

Well, I don't know anything about checkers. So I don't know what they are doing down there, talk to your staff.

And there is a control room, I mean they are playing basketball a lot. . .

And if there's a lot of expensive equipment in there. You're gonna be careful. But think about it, I mean people have blackberries now, so they are doing a lot of work outside the office, in the cab on the way here, I was typing away.

That's just it. You may do some things that you'll normally do off work time at work but then when you're at home, you're constantly checking, you know checking emails, getting emails from work, checking blackberries. So has, has the work pattern changed? or it's not just your nine to five, but it's your 24 hours.

Absolutely yeah. I was joking with you guys while typing away here, at the table here, you are not to be at a desk anymore to do your work. And that's an interesting thing that studies have shown that people are actually spending more time on work when they are at home than they're goofing off in the office. So what you're saying is absolutely true.

The entire time I'm at home, I am working toward doing work for this job. There's no question. But how many times you walk by people's desk and that's solitaire's being played on their computer screen.

Well, that's the famous example, an infamous⁴ I should say, a Mayor Michael Bloomberg here in New York, famously fired an employee for playing solitaire at work. And I think that's the real danger for employers. And that's what we are talking about to some of our Inc readers, just that, you don't wanna crack down necessarily because you rub your employees the wrong way. I don't think anyone said Mayor Bloomberg looked like a great manager, they just said that wasn't a really nice thing to do.

Well, yet, but the guy was stupid, hey, the mayor is coming true and he is playing cards and maybe you shouldn't do that at work.

Rod Kurtz, senior editor at Inc. com. We thank you very much. And of course check out the magazine. There it is, right there. "How to make great hires" is your cover story. All right, thank you.

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1. goof¹ around:If someone goofs⁵ around, they spend their time doing silly things. (INFORMAL)

2.solitaire: n.Solitaire is a game for one person in which you move and remove objects on a board, with the aim of having one object left at the end of the game

1 goof   

v.弄糟；闲混；n.呆瓜

参考例句：

• We goofed last week at the end of our interview with singer Annie Ross.上周我们采访歌手安妮·罗斯，结果到快结束时犯了个愚蠢的错误。
• You will never be good students so long as you goof around.如果你们成天游手好闲，就永远也成不了好学生。

2 goofing   

v.弄糟( goof的现在分词 )；混；打发时间；出大错

参考例句：

• He should have been studying instead of goofing around last night. 他昨晚应该念书，不应该混。 来自走遍美国快乐40招
• Why don't you just admit you're goofing off? 偷了懒就偷了赖，还不爽爽快快承认？ 来自辞典例句

3 interns   

n.住院实习医生( intern的名词复数 )v.拘留，关押( intern的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Our interns also greet our guests when they arrive in our studios. 我们的实习生也会在嘉宾抵达演播室的时候向他们致以问候。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• The interns work alongside experienced civil engineers and receive training in the different work sectors. 实习生陪同有经验的国内工程师工作，接受不同工作部门的相关培训。 来自超越目标英语 第4册

4 infamous   

adj.声名狼藉的，臭名昭著的，邪恶的

参考例句：

• He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
• I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。

5 goofs   

n.呆瓜( goof的名词复数 )v.弄糟( goof的第三人称单数 )；混；打发时间；出大错

参考例句：

• Red always goofs off, or thinks of a smart crack instead of working. 雷德不好好干，总是吊儿郎当，要不就想出些俏皮话来挖苦人。 来自辞典例句
• Other than the above ideas, I have also considered making movie goofs. 除了自创的桥段外，还可以玩电影恶搞。 来自互联网