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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 17, 2024 19:56:32 GMT
Get some headphones and go the audiobook route.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 17, 2024 20:05:28 GMT
Or kill them on their way home.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 17, 2024 20:05:54 GMT
a measured and fair response
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 17, 2024 20:08:29 GMT
Well the world's gone to shit, so we may as well enjoy it.
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Post by Garfy on Jun 17, 2024 20:10:01 GMT
But who could it be?
The kindly old mentor who always helps me out?
His son, the latest hire and a bit of an unknown quantity but seems a good guy.
Or the narky whiner who always whinges about everything!
Who? It's a mystery!
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Post by Dougs on Jun 17, 2024 20:10:18 GMT
Reminds me of the rumour that someone before my time in the CS was so underemployed, he managed to sit at the back of the office, seemingly working but was actually writing a novel.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 17, 2024 20:14:34 GMT
Reminds me of the rumour that someone before my time in the CS was so underemployed, he managed to sit at the back of the office, seemingly working but was actually writing a novel. As a former civil servant, one in the DWP specifically, I can totally believe that. |
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Post by Dougs on Jun 17, 2024 20:15:40 GMT
This was apparently in DTI.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 17, 2024 20:16:11 GMT
I can believe it even more. There were always those people who just got away with stuff and just melded into the back. The ones who had been there a while and were just part of the furniture and left to their own devices.
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Post by cubby on Jun 17, 2024 20:17:30 GMT
Tbf hardly anyone's glass house is safe here.
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Post by 😎 on Jun 17, 2024 22:54:37 GMT
Measuring productivity in raw hours is annoying. Metrics for my team are “done what you need to for the day and everything’s on track? Yes? Then I don’t care what else you do as long as you’re responsive to messages and emails”
Those stories at the moment of people being fired for mouse jigglers annoy me too. Not that they should be used as for the most part they’re a big ol security risk, but unless work isn’t getting done then who the fuck cares if you’re yellow. And half the time it’s because screen time outs are too aggressive or sensitive. Sometimes ours can go off in the middle of a meeting when you’re presenting.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 18, 2024 4:42:24 GMT
What the heck is a mouse jiggler?
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Post by 😎 on Jun 18, 2024 4:52:18 GMT
It’s something that provides helpful context in the post, and failing that, a shortcut to Google to find on out.
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Post by Onny on Jun 18, 2024 4:59:12 GMT
It’s a bit of software or some wangdanger which will “jiggle” your mouse to stop the screen from locking. If you have apps like teams it also means your status will always be set to “active” rather than “away” or whatever.
Anyway, I'm totally with you, Grem. If they are getting their work done then leave them to it. If they aren’t, then get better at managing.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 18, 2024 5:05:35 GMT
I do the work I'm asked to do, and sometimes I'll even ask around if I've completed my tasks.
But I often have some downtime, especially in the quiet months, due the cyclical nature of the recruitment campaigns we run.
I've found that putting on some training video will stop my screen timing out, plus I can say I've been doing some learning.
Nobody has complained and I get good feedback in my one-to-ones and reviews so fuck it. Unless somebody tells me I'm not going to make myself busy.
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Post by otto on Jun 18, 2024 5:25:13 GMT
Reminds me of the rumour that someone before my time in the CS was so underemployed, he managed to sit at the back of the office, seemingly working but was actually writing a novel. That’s not a rumour, that’s a documented fact: I’m pretty sure Lindsey Davis is on record as having said that she wrote her first published novel at her desk as a civil servant, and I know many civil servants with unpublished novels. Christ, if you put together all my posts on EG and Twitter over the years that were written from the office, you’d have the equivalent of the Wheel of Time. |
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Post by otto on Jun 18, 2024 5:31:21 GMT
Presenteeism is one of the the things I loathe most about late stage capitalism. If you’re at your desk but you don’t have anything to do, that’s not your fault that’s management’s fault. Go home, or do something for yourself. Productivity is about getting a task done, not sitting at a bloody desk. At my place too they’ve become obsessed with office occupation stats since lockdown and have started logging people’s presence. Absolutely fuck that from orbit. That’s slavery.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 18, 2024 5:50:34 GMT
Ha, this was a bloke iirc so clearly not an isolated incident! But agree re EG posts especially.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 18, 2024 6:09:07 GMT
It’s something that provides helpful context in the post, and failing that, a shortcut to Google to find on out. But how would that express my sense of confusion at the weird term? *googles*  |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 18, 2024 7:02:59 GMT
What the heck is a mouse jiggler? Thought you'd know about these things where you are, Bill |
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Post by Frog on Jun 18, 2024 7:17:08 GMT
Got to keep that wanking wrist healthy. Although if you enjoy a bit of self harm, an rsi wank delivers
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Post by otto on Jun 18, 2024 7:20:37 GMT
Ah but what if your mousing wrist and wanking wrist aren't the same wrists?
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Post by Frog on Jun 18, 2024 7:25:09 GMT
Some of us have to use 2 hands user Otto.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 18, 2024 7:25:46 GMT
This is one reason why I didn't want to google it.
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Post by otto on Jun 18, 2024 7:28:08 GMT
Some of us have to use 2 hands user Otto. you and your weird fucking gaming mouse |
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Post by dfunked on Jun 18, 2024 7:35:02 GMT
I'd you're going to try to cheat the system, at least be a bit inventive and try to find a hardware solution. Strap a vibrator to the mouse or something instead of downloading malware ridden shitware. Or an analogue watch under the mouse's sensor if you want to be boring. |
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Post by otto on Jun 18, 2024 7:44:16 GMT
I'd you're going to try to cheat the system, at least be a bit inventive and try to find a hardware solution.  |
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Post by Garfy on Jun 18, 2024 9:54:23 GMT
I've spoken to the boss and he's trying to smooth things over with me and the remote manager who raised the issue.
Was it just him having a problem with me on his occasional visits to the office? Or did someone local complain. He's not revealing his sources.
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Post by Frog on Jun 18, 2024 9:57:09 GMT
Well he was hardly going to tell you it was Karen from HR was he.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Jun 18, 2024 10:13:11 GMT
I heard, through the grapevine, that if you open notebook on your computer and put something on your keyboard so it continually types a letter, you won't ever go yellow on Teams.
Obviously, only if you work from home, and not kicking back in a silk dressing gown reading a book in the office.
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