What's your best shamming tactic?

When I was taking my turn working for 90 days in the galley. After lunch and before dinner when the galley was empty I skated off in style. Hung out in the MA's office. I would sit in a rolling chair behind the counter and around the corner from the door. Non security personnel weren't supposed to be behind the counter but when my 2 friends who both had duty on the same day would let me hang out with them.

Irrelevant pile of paper on my desk. I took it out of a drawer each morning and put it back each night. That way I "looked" busy and could,get what needed to be done without someone adding extra stuff because of any appearance I did not have enough to do.

So this is a multi pronged attack.
1) keep extra cap on desk, Always keep primary in the small of your back. People can see the bulge in your cargo pocket.
2) keep old ID card in CAC reader
3) ALWAYS schedule meetings with units outside yours, on the other side of post, for around 1500 so its not unusual to not be around after 1500 on days you had enough.
4) If you know that day is gonna be a sham day, talk up CQ as early as possible. Every Soldier loves Ranch sunflower Seeds or Red Bull or something. Around 1700, call CQ and as them to put your spare cover and CAC in your desk drawer as inconspicuously as possible.

100% success rate!

Use the word "inventory" liberally.
Type a lot.
Sit next to a phone, claim to be waiting for a call (not mine).
Also, clipboards make everything look important...even chow lists.

Ended as Medhold driver,,long with buddy. Since we were on call till 10am (and only one car) I talked my psgt and 1sgt into letting us each work every other day. No formations, no pt, nothing on our days off. For an infantryman it was amazeballs.

My MOS (55B when I was active, now 89R) allowed for lots of shamming. I had a few, minor shams but they added up. Stationed at Hood, I worked in the ASP.

Napping while waiting on units to arrive at the designated bunker for ammo for training. I did this frequently. The vehicles pulling up woke us up. No one really cared either. The hillside bunkers in my AO were cool in summer and warm in winter making great environments for naps.

Mail Clerk, the old CO clerk left and I jumped at the chance to be the new one(before I knew it would be a sham job). I had to pick up/return mail at the BN mail room at a specific time, so I had to leave the ASP with plenty of time to spare daily. This job alone accounted for a fair amount of missed work/training. Unfortunately I had to share the job with our Alternate Clerk, and also worked Saturdays....but I had no reason to drag it out so I was done within a half hour and back to sleeping off the previous nights hangover.

Those were my usual ways out of work. Some also involved "work", but compared to being outside in the Texas heat it wasn't so bad.

I was also a holdover in AIT due to tearing a rotator cuff during my final PT test. Got voluntold for details daily. Best one was CIF. We didn't have many incoming trainees/Permanent Party so we napped, played solitaire etc. Occasionally we'd get gear gathered, occasionally we'd actually clean the area, sort, organize and move stuff around. But only occasionally.

I was R&U and the unit armorer for a medical detachment, if I wasn't "working" in the arms room, I had a tool belt on and a screw driver in my hand walking around.

Was Armorer in Germany. Hid a cot out of sight in arms room or always had an appointment to bring NODs up to 47th.

I had my own vault for an NBC room, I would just going in my "office" close the vault door and go to sleep

I wasn't much of a scam artist in my junior sailor days, but I knew someone who would go from place to place with sound powered phones donned. They didn't have to be plugged in, and no one ever questioned what he was doing.