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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.
> 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.
Always pretend to be annoyed. People think you're really busy when you look annoyed.
My friend's dad ran a company that had sick days and personal days. One dude was out of personal days and called in.
"I'm sick"
"What's wrong"
"Something is wrong with my eyes"
"What's wrong with your eyes"
"I can't see my ass coming in to work today"
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....