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That must have been nice to have an empty office. 
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It really was. Unfortunately for me, I read the book World War Z over a couple days lunch and break time and it totally weirded me out. I'd walk outside and no cars, no one walking, no one in the building. Poor choice of reading material during a pandemic. Otherwise, it was a very productive time, haha.
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Yep. And most citizens needs to be babysat by their governments.  It’s called ‘being human.’
Sorry to rant.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Actually, most governments needs to be babysat by their citizens. It’s called ‘Democracy'.
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Oh, I agree. But in reality that’s not the direction it’s going. 
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Slacker007 wrote: I don't think that is possible after a certain age.
More like you either have it, or you don't.
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Exactly.
I would also take it one step further and assume that people who have a low or non-existent work ethic, are probably people that society does not want to associate with. It says a tremendous amount about a person's character and lack of integrity.
modified 14-Jan-23 10:18am.
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Slacker007 wrote: people that society does not want to associate with. It says a tremendous amount about a person's character and lack of integrity.
This. Being able to cheat your employer, and getting away with it, is nothing to be proud of.
If you're a government employee (and thus my tax dollars pay your salary), you're wasting those tax dollars and providing nothing in return. You're supposed to contribute something to society. Your contribution is actually negative in this case. And if you're not working for the government, you're raising the cost of whatever widget/service your employer sells/provides. Again, you can't be proud of that.
If you hate your job, find employment elsewhere. In the long run, a steady paycheck isn't worth the damage to your health, mental or otherwise.
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That's stupidity to the maximum level. When I worked remotely on a basically finished project I played videogames all day long - on MY computer, while the work laptop was either idling or compiling in loop with random pauses between compilation.
If you want to steal be at least clever about it, otherwise it casts a shadow on all the honest thieves out there.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Obligatory XKCD[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I knew that strip and shamelessly took inspiration from it also there is (was?) an old small package in the Debian repository to keep the CPU usage high to muddle employer surveillance based on CPU load. That was my second source of inspiration.
As somebody else stated, I brought "quiet quitting" to an art form - though not really, there are people much better (worse?) than me in that regard.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Love the compiling cartoon! My office mate and I used to throw six darts during project builds. We threw for bullseyes, and counted them on our white board. We ended up with so many tick marks, that we started tracking delta bulls eyes to avoid questions about all the tick marks stacking up through out the week. We got really good at darts, and built a really cool project. Too much fun.
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We do daily stand-ups where we tell what we worked on yesterday, what's on tap for today, and anything that might block progress. Better than any tracking software and a whole lot less offensive.
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Working remotely takes some discipline. Some of us I guess are just not capable of being disciplined. I have worked remotely for a few years of my career (pre-pandemic) as well as currently using a hybrid model (remote 3 days per week). I have a separate room I call my office and work during work hours without distractions. Not an issue for me. Perhaps those who have never worked remotely before, this is a big challenge.
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I'm a boomer, so work discipline was cooked into my DNA.
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I think really liking what I do masquerades for ultra work ethic.
The bits of it I detest, I'll procrastinate over in a cubicle every bit as much as from my home office.
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We do exactly this. Well, the standups are 5- (10?) minute audio calls early in the morning over Teams.
I've been working there here remotely since 2007, and using this simple method, the slackers stick out like sore thumbs.
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If this software was on a company owned laptop, that's one thing. If a company put software like this on my personal laptop and didn't offer me a company laptop I'd be suing them under any number of laws governing the unauthorized use of computer systems.
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Two old people are playing golf. "How was your golf game, dear?" asked Jack's wife Tracy.
"Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight's gotten so bad I couldn't see where the ball went".
"But you're seventy-five years old, Jack!" admonished his wife "Why don't you take my brother Scott along?"
"But he's eighty-five and doesn't even play golf anymore" protested Jack.
"But he's got perfect eyesight. He could watch your ball" Tracy pointed out.
The next day Jack teed off with Scott looking on. Jack swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway.
"Do you see it?" asked Jack.
"Yup" Scott answered. "Well, where is it?" yelled Jack, peering off into the distance.
"I forgot".
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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A physicist, a mathematician, and an engineer are all found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by guillotine.
The priest reads them their last rites, then the king orders the executioner to kill the physicist.
The executioner offers the physicist two choices: would he like a hood on or off, and would he like to be executed face up or face down. The physicist replies, "I spent my whole life studying the heavens. I would like to face the sky, with the hood on like night!"
The executioner positions the physicist and drops the blade...
... and it stops inches from the physicists' neck.
The priest cries, "It's a sign from God! This man is innocent! Set him free!", so the king pardons him, and orders the mathematician executed next.
The executioner offers the mathematician the same choices: would he like a hood on or off, and would he like to be executed face up or face down. The mathematician replies, "They all result in an equivalent state, but hood off face down is the most elegant solution!"
The executioner positions the mathematician and drops the blade...
... and it stops inches from the mathematician's neck.
The priest cries, "It's a sign from God! This man is innocent! Set him free!", so the king pardons him, and orders the engineer executed next.
The executioner offers the engineer the same choices: would he like a hood on or off, and would he like to be executed face up or face down. The engineer replies, "I have always loved machines, and there is no more elegant a killing machine than the guillotine. I will spend my final moments marveling in its beauty!"
The executioner positions the engineer and, as he's about to drop the blade, the engineer shouts:
"I see the problem!"
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A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!"
The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greenskeeper. Let's have a word with him."
"Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"
The greenskeeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."
The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"
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The Optimist: The glass is half full.
The Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
The Engineer: The glass is too big.
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There's a light at the end of a very long tunnel:
The pessimist sees a long walk ahead
The optimist sees daylight
The engineer sees two idiots standing on the tracks.
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Message Closed
modified 15-May-23 19:06pm.
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