Counter-Surfacing Techniques

For when you need to sneak an extra snack into your workday, but the boss is watching...

Here are some advanced counter-surfacing techniques to help you avoid detection:

• Disguise your snack as a "meeting note" or "report"
• Hide it in your desk drawer, labeled with a cryptic "EOD" (End Of Day) sticker
• Conceal it in a hollowed-out 3-ring binder
• Use the "snack-signal" – a series of subtle hand gestures to signal to your coworkers that it's snack time