I bet they forgot to rig the webcams, microphones, seat weight sensors, and infrared desk presence trackers.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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maybe stop tracking people's minute movements you fucking absolute creeps
I use a mouse jiggler while I'm working because I often spend quite a bit of time just thinking through data structures and code composition and Teams is absolutely sure that I'm away from my desk if it's more than 5 minutes.
Start a meeting. Then mark yourself as available.
That is a good suggestion. Interesting. I'll have to try it. Although if you're in a meeting doesn't that mark you as busy?
I just open notepad and put something on the enter key and lay the laptop lid on it.
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Code up an F24 presser in Excels VBA macro editor, and run that between your work hours.
Only downside with teams is that you can't accept direct teams calls while in a meeting and they can see you are in a meeting. You always get the odd person who dials before asking via chat if you are available so you don't get the chance to close your meeting first.
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Same here. Also I sometimes think about these kinds of things when I'm off the clock too. I don't want to but you can't exactly tell your brain to stop thinking about work stuff at 5pm. Sometimes I'm just watching TV or whatever and a thought about how to solve a work problem pops into my head.
To me it says more about how bad the management is at a company that has to resort to try to detecting mouse jigglers. Do they know so little about what the employees do that they don't simply notice that work isn't getting done if an employee isn't actually working?
Hilariously enough there's tons of empirical data that shows people are far more productive in socializing environments where micromanaging doesn't happen, and arbitrary rules are put on place. Give people an actual sense of community, they actually engage in work they have to get done.
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Is the job to be interacting with a computer for the entire duration of your shift? Fuck this incentive structure that requires people to fake touching their computer parts to show that work is being done.
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