Sentence examples for a bored office from inspiring English sources

The dark comedy, which The Daily Telegraph's critic described as "occasionally dazzling", centres on a bored office drone who spectacularly goes off the rails.

Many a bored office worker has been known to sneak in a bit of Internet distraction during work hours, of course — hey, you're reading a blog post right now, aren't you?

And so, bit by bit, a scenario evolved: of a bored office worker, finding the novel in a filing cabinet and getting slowly, inexorably sucked into it over the course of a single working day.

A bored office worker tap dances on her desk.

In the nearly three-minute video, which features a zoom-in on her lip balm, Duff plays a bored office worker who fantasizes about a sunny getaway.

When Facebook goes down it's a serious issue: bored office workers are bereft of distractions, children are obliged to talk to their families, media executives cry over lost traffic and nobody gets poked … (no seriously, that still exists).

But Google's smart idea of putting a play-able Pac-Man game on its homepage for a day last week caused bored office workers to waste 4.82 million hours gobbling electronic fruit, at a cost in global productivity of $120m.

And while the new Time Machine offers a briefly fun diversion for bored office workers looking for a little escapism, there's not much value to it as a real product feature that you would return to again and again, following your first, more curious exploration.

The choice of doodle is always a noteworthy event, not least among bored office workers for whom the sketches offer a welcome splash of variety into their daily routine.

It was best known as a diversion for college students and bored office workers, who obsessively refreshed the site to devour its young writers' acerbic dissections of New York City power players' comings and goings.

Her inclusion of the McCartney song "Another Day," about a bored, lonely office worker who finally meets the "man of her dreams" for what turns out to be a one-night stand speaks for itself.