March 13, 2006 2:32 PM

Proudly stands my alma mater on her hilltop high
Posted by Jason Butlerat 2:32 PM

It's that time of year again, time to analyze the brackets and tune in online to the opening rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament. As always when watching basketball during work hours, Alt-tab is your friend. When you hear the boss coming, make sure to flip your screen over to the TPS reports. Your boss will suspect nothing.

Consultants will say that office pools drain productivity, but they're just sad to see us enjoying ourselves.

U.S. businesses are poised to lose as much as $3.8 billion in worker productivity during the next three weeks, as employees enter office pools, track their picks and otherwise watch and gab about games that culminate with the NCAA basketball championship April 3 in Indianapolis.

And yes, Syracuse got robbed, only getting a #4 seed. They'll prove everyone wrong when they win the national championship. And I, a proud member of the class of 1994, will lord it over all my co-workers for weeks to come.