I read in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL about an effective work-avoidance method called "strategic incompetence". If you don't want to do something, you act so helpless that someone feels the need to save you. When you're asked to make a coffee, for example, you stand in front of the machine, spending a lot of time looking confused and asking questions about how much coffee to put in, what kind of filter is needed and so on. If you play your cards right, someone - usually a woman - after a few minutes of watching your pathetic performance, will say, "Here, let me do that." 
By all means she will win the big prize: the privilege of making coffee for the rest of her working life. Even those people who don't volunteer their help sometimes fall into the trap: the boss, noticing that you are wasting valuable company time looking stupid in front of the coffee machine, asks someone to help. It is called the magic weapon of office life: you get out of an unpleasant task without ever looking uncooperative. The one, that helped you, will hate you forever, but the one has learned a valuable lesson: the art of being intelligent at work is knowing when you not to be too competent.