Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window.
Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an outlook draft.
AT my current job I could probably get away with playing a MUD, I'm in AS400 terminal windows all day so I could sit there with CMUD on a monitor and no one would have a clue unless they came up and actually read the window (Edit: and actually when I first started here sometimes I'd open a CMD and watch telnet Star Wars).
I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet.
It came out in 2006 but Defcon had a similar feature, as well as status updates in the system tray so you'd be able to follow some of what was going on even when it wasn't active.
My old employer blocked Netflix though. I didn't want to watch movies, but they had some interesting looking machine learning blog articles that I couldn't read
anyone have any clue what the mschf.xyz/venmo link at the bottom is about?
a little skeptical about the concept of being paid (a nominal sum?) via venmo as a substitute to an email newsletter subscription. for example, how would I unsubscribe?
Let people go home when they’re done for the day? Not care what people do all day as long as they complete their tasks? Why does “work” have to 9-5 once you get a fancy degree? Some people like working nights.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 60.2 ms ] threadSimilarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an outlook draft.
AT my current job I could probably get away with playing a MUD, I'm in AS400 terminal windows all day so I could sit there with CMUD on a monitor and no one would have a clue unless they came up and actually read the window (Edit: and actually when I first started here sometimes I'd open a CMD and watch telnet Star Wars).
Can anyone remember any of them?
being a child at the time of its release, the boss key made absolutely no sense to me. neither did any of the humor in the game.
My old employer blocked Netflix though. I didn't want to watch movies, but they had some interesting looking machine learning blog articles that I couldn't read
Except it requires literally no 'porting' at all: it runs fine out of the box without modification https://lol768.com/i/ReveilleAgitationsIncurablesBicyclist
This is just laziness.
If you need this you have a bullshit job.
Go read David Graeber's book «Bullshit Jobs».
At my last bullshit job I programmed for my hobby projects on the job. Nobody was the any wiser.
a little skeptical about the concept of being paid (a nominal sum?) via venmo as a substitute to an email newsletter subscription. for example, how would I unsubscribe?
i suppose you could just block them to unsubscribe?
i wonder how many people who welcome this idea as a work thing, actually had to pay someone's salary some point in their carreer...