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After that fiasco I can't believe anyone still uses Wells Fargo.

Turns out the employees didn't actually do that. It was the mouse jigglers and clickers conspiring together.

I know people who use the mouse jiggler. They get all their work done and are good employees.

I'm a manager at a large company and have employees who work mostly from home. I don't bother checking if their picture has a green or yellow mark next to their name. If they respond to my emails quickly and get their overall work done, I'm happy.

They don't have a real job....

According to the disclosures, the terminated employees worked in Wells Fargo's wealth- and investment-management unit.

Time and time again, these funds don't really beat the average of an index fund.

But the Uber wealthy dont like being lumped together with regular people. So they pay commissions to get the same performance, resulting in less profits than an ind x when it's all said and done.

But the company points to the small parts that do over perform, and downplays the bad parts.

Turn 1 million into 5 million, and it's easy to forget there was another 10 million that's worth 6 million now.

Sure you up a million, but you're focused on that 5x gain and not the 4 million loss. So before commissions it's a draw.

In real life there's interest, inflation, and lots of other stuff that muddies the waters.

It's like their version of horse racing, they bet on a bunch and hope one hits it big and pays off the losses on the others. It's the same as gambling and just as addictive.

So if these employees were answering their phone when a big client calls and letting stuff sit, their performance was probably fine.

Because it's not a real job.

But then you can't fire them and not have to call it a re org.

One thing to keep in mind: with "knowledge work", the work is never done - there's always more to do.

So for middle management it's really hard to measure productivity, so we get this nonsense.

This is also why Agile project management is so popular - it provides a daily metric of what's going on, what people are doing. It forces a granularity of communication (which for those of us with lots to do, gets pretty fucking annoying).

"because they might finish their work in 2 hours, which means they're stealing 6 hours of pay from us!" - Idiots who spent dollars obsessing over pennies.

The lesson is to work really, really slow

Because it's not about getting work done, it's about having power over your employees.

That means you have to do actual management. Talk to people. Keep on top of workloads. Rebalance things. Build relationships. They don't have time for that - they have their own tasks to do. So they rely on the green checkmark to mean that lil Davey is being a good busy bee.
I don't know why things got to be this way.

Exactly. I kind of don’t give a shit about how my employees manage their time. If they get the thing done when we both agreed it should reasonably be done by, and they’re reasonably available to support their coworkers during business hours, then they can play video games for half the day for all I care.

You measure the results, not the clicks.

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I am an AV tech and we use a mouse jiggler script to prevent computers from going into an inactive state for presentations during events at my company. The script doesn't need to be installed, you just open the file by double clicking.

My guess is these were underperforming problem employees that they wanted to drop. This provided an easy out to skip a PIP and severance. A company the size of wells fargo there are going to be way more people than 14 using a jiggler. If it were a blanket 1-strike, it would be a lot more folks gone.

Sooooo we jigglin?

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Installed applications can tell IT what software is installed on individual computers. IT usually doesn't care unless something could harm the computer or network... or until some higher up with nothing better to do tells them to do a search for someone like this.

I'm in IT and even I use a mouse jiggle app just so Teams doesn't show I'm away constantly. Even when I am working on another program, Teams can show the away status which annoys me.

Not everybody who uses it does it to goof off. Micro-managing is so stupid. There are other ways of knowing your employee is doing work.