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White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users

Posted by Zonk on from the working-is-hard-apparently dept.

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."

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  1. How to use this to make workers look bad by Travoltus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stuff like this could become the first direction all fingers point when a company goes down.

    So much for it being because a company's product got beaten out by a competitor, or because its leadership embezzled it into the ground, or creative accounting.

    Everyone now will be looking for the back office Richard Pryor type (I forgot the name of the movie) as a scapegoat.

    American workers are already being called the laziest in the world (by conservatives, mind you) while statistics show them to be among the most productive (overall, if not per hour). If we're such collective goof offs then why are we so productive?

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  2. You're in the wrong job. by onion2k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're resorting to lies and trickery to avoid the work you ought to be doing, then you should quit. If your job is so bad, don't carry on with it. Find one you actually like, that you enjoy, that isn't something you want to avoid. You'll be a lot less stressed and you'll find life a whole lot easier.

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    1. Re:You're in the wrong job. by Travoltus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Except then there would be the problem with paying rent. For most people nowadays, an enjoyable job is not one that pays, or at least pays well. Unless you start your own business and all that, of course most businesses fail in the first year.

      But yeah, lies and trickery on the job are not cool, either by the workers or by the executive officers...

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  3. Why? by Chasuk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From what was described in the article, I don't understood how the "cheating" took any less effort than something novel like... doing the work.

    That's like friends I have who shorten "thanks" to "thnkx," because it saves them time. They're right! Wow, in 50 years, they might have saved enough time to watch an episode of South Park!

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  4. their ignorance is your bliss by FoxAche · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like surfing the web with Lynx under Cygwin with the colors set to grays. To the average person who walks past it looks like I'm working. They think I'm doing some work using the command line. As the IT area in my office is too full I'm sitting in accounts where they have no clue what you are doing, but had I opened a web page in a regular browser it would look bad.

  5. Re:Backdate e-mails by BiDi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you think that bosses know how to check e-mail headers? 90% of them only know how to start Outlook if the icon is sitting directly on the desktop.