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White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users
An anonymous reader writes "Simple tricks allow one to appear to be hard at work in the office while actually forwarding calls, e-mails and instant messages to your mobile phone. One can backdate e-mails through rolling back a computer's built-in clock or use background phone noises to concoct convincing excuses not to go to work."
People are lazy?!
A (semi)-respected publisher puts out a book on how to shirk actual work?
Like any of you losers works anyways.
Back in my day, we had to walk 10 miles uphill in the snow wearing a sun dress, just to submit our punchcards to the mainframe guy! And you complain about a little typing.
-- Lost the password to my two-digit uid.
This seems likr a lot of effort to go through to not do nay work.
High-technology tricks once seen as the purview of hackers
Such as actually using the features included in your e-mail client and changing your time settings? Amazing high technology hacker tricks. *rolls eyes*
> Even then, why does the SMTP server accept e-mails from the past?
Yes, that's ridiculous! Imagine it would also accept a fake sender address...
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Hello, I am sending this into the future from 1908! How are you? I hope things are well in the 21st century! Anyway, I just wanted to say "hi". I'll let you get back to maintaining your underwater habitat and defending the Earth against the Martian aggressors now.
This message was sent from planetary node Alpha-7 at 15:27 on March 17, 1908.
"I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
It should be pointed out that this high-tech slackery and the widespread phenomenon of downloading music and other media are two aspects of a single process.
What is happening is workers, reduced in today's "service economy" (subservience economy would be a better term) to little more that soulless drones, are rejecting the labor and property regimes imposed upon them by the ruling classes.
Another instance of this historical turn is the acts of so-called "terrorism" taking place more and more often at present.
While these acts are clearly atrocities, and those who perpetrate them must be stopped, it is only a matter of time before the masses wake up to the fact that religious extremism is a mere superstructural stand-in for a more direct oppostion to the capitalist-imperialist system, their true downpressor.
Thus the global proletariat will eventually unite in opposition to the dehumanizing system of oligarchichal imperalist capital that today crushes so many spirits.
Resistance is taking many forms these days. These are times for those who desire true human liberty to be optimistic.
What ever happened to good ol' fashioned drawing eyes on your glasses so it looks like you're awake?
why does the SMTP server accept e-mails from the past?
Cause it's so much simpler than accepting e-mails from the future.
Sleeping in the bathroom? Sure, if that's what you want to call it...
There's no way I'm working that hard to avoid working. I'll goof off the old fashion way, thank you very much.
Was out to go buy myself a few grammes of coke
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
You could spend a lot of time and effort avoiding working.
But that's work. A true slacker wouldn't. Nor would a true slacker write a book about it, or read one.
A REAL slacker wouldn't even bother to fini
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
Far better to avoid going to work in the first place. If I'm going to slack on company time, I'd rather do it at home, or at the beach, or pretty much anywhere but work, thank you very much. And low-tech solutions are usually the best - the ones where you know some 1337 sysadmin isn't going to be able to dig up evidence against you.
My favourite low-tech solution, like so many good ideas, was invented in desperation. Beautiful sunny day, and I was supposed to go and cook hamburgers in a sweltering kitchen which was in an airport terminal - and the terminal was essentially a massive greenhouse. No way. There's really only one way to guarantee getting out of work when your work involves food, and that's to have food poisoning or diarrhoea. But everyone gets the shits when the sun comes out. No problemo.
I prepared a squeezy bottle, filling it about two-thirds full of water, cleared the route to the toilet, and put the lid down. Then I went back into my room and called in sick.
"Hello, is that Gav? ... Sorry, Gav, I'm not going to make it in... diarrhoea, I think it was the fish I had last night... Gav, I know every other bastard has called in sick already, but I'm - hold on!" With that, I ran, phone in one hand and squeezy bottle in the other, along the hallway, burst into the bathroom, flung the seat up with a clatter, sat down, pointed the squeezy bottle between my legs and down into the pan, squeezed it and groaned like hell. Squeezing and releasing the bottle would result in a wonderful mix between high-pressure-liquid sounds and farting sounds, which echoed around the pan and in turn the bathroom. Acoustically, it was perfect.
Finally, gasping, I said, "Gav, you still there? ...Sorry man... yeah, you're right, I'd better have tomorrow off too."
I had to buy some factor 50 sunblock so I didn't have an awkward tan to explain, but by God it was worth it.
Always pretend to be annoyed. People think you're really busy when you look annoyed.
Talk about putting the "fun" in funeral.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
Hard work often pays off after time but lazyness always pays off now.
I was working for a startup company, and had been shunted into the role of network administrator. Not something I was fully qualified for, or even wanted.
But at one point in time we ran into cash flow problems, big surprise right.
So after about a month of not getting paid I decided to take some time off until the paycheck arrived in order to do some side jobs. I did not tell anyone else, I basically just locked up my office, and did not show up for a little more than a month. (Hey I needed to get food on the table, and I was pissed as all hell by that point)
I come back just to check on the server, which was still running ok, and I find out that everyone thought I was extremely busy and running errands or doing something around the office. (Since my office door was locked)
So I get my back pay, pay for the full month, a raise, AND a bonus.
For some reason I could not be bothered to correct their mistake....