Tough Day at Work…

Hey! That was only the once!

Teams will turn from green "available" to yellow "away" if there's no activity detected

And some companies will monitor how much time is spent "away" and use this as an indicator of not working.

You can become "away" even if your watching training videos or watching presentations though, so it's highly ineffective.


Even taking those into account it's highly ineffective. It's a measure of presenteeism, not productivity.

Dr Hickman explained it much better, and without including 'Busty Fingerton'.

Go with his explanation!

I believe Geefe is a form of quantum physics that is AND isn't a music journalist/surveyor/teacher/gigolo/astronaut/Prime Minister of England.

Plot twist: Bill works as a rent boy

Some companies are even worse.

Some companies will screenshot your screen periodically, will actively monitor key presses. I think it's more common in the US as it gets very invasion-of-privacy-ish but some companies will use the work laptop camera to make sure colleague are there - doubt they'd monitor it constantly but might do spot checks.

My current place don't do any of that, or even the teams monitoring, but it happens.

If my place introduced stricter teams monitoring I'd be looking for a new job asap.

I literally couldn't work like that. It's bad enough now that they're asking us to log hours in the office, but at least I can use that to build flexitime credit. It's patently absurd given that they expect us to be on call at all times so not being in the office is no indication that you're not working, and vice versa, rather the opposite, so as said previously it's just presenteeist bollocks. But micro-surveillance, I couldn't be dealing with that. I can't think of a way to sweeten that to keep me in such a place. Absolutely fuck that.

I've been monitored, micromanaged and all the shite for years and like otto says, absolutely fuck that. It's definitely not for everyone and a hateful environment. Unfortunately most people put up with it, because it's a job and leaving and doing something else is harder for them than simply putting up with it.

A good mate I drink with tried all the corporate lark years ago when he was younger, and simply couldn't deal with the bullshit authority. It's like he physically couldn't comply!

He's one of the most intelligent and worldly wise people I know and he just said, fuck this, and went self employed. Been doing it for 25 years now.

He physically cringes when I tell him about corporate and how they treat you and can't even comprehend most of it.

My current job has got its issues, but thank fuck I'm not doing corporate anymore. Life is definitely way too short for that shash.

I had something similar in my first job at the job centre. Had to input how many people I'd signed on, interviewed etc. Just made it up. Ideal when you had a full day of interviews booked and you whipped through them in 5 mins each. I didn't take the job very seriously.

Had a new boss in a previous job who came in and wanted everyone to itemise on a spreadsheet what they had done during the last 15 minutes, every 15 minutes.

Didn't last very long.

That's exactly what was said, filling in this sheet, having a shit etc

Mental. Treat people like adults and for the most part you will be repaid in spades. You get the occasional piss taker of course but the good outweighs it by far ime.

But what if the lift is going up?

I've got a role open for a Junior Analyst that has somehow led to me becoming a careers advisor with dozens of people asking 'I'm really interested in this role and would like to know more about how to get into cyber security'. That government advert really worked.