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37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-we-work dept.

On-demand video streaming service Netflix has found that more people than ever are watching video outside their homes. About 67% of people now watch movies and TV shows in public, according to an online survey it commissioned of 37,000 adults around the world. The survey also found that about 37% of Netflix's US subscribers binge-watch shows and movies while at work.

154 comments

  1. Sounds like... by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...

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    1. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.

      This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.

    2. Re:Sounds like... by amalcolm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ironically I tried to follow the link in the TFA, and guess what .. it's blocked from here

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    3. Re:Sounds like... by omnichad · · Score: 1

      And catch up on GoT while they're at it?

    4. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Found the guy that watches Netflix at work.

    5. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Unlimited cell phone data... problem solved.

    6. Re:Sounds like... by kenjo · · Score: 1

      Does not matter the word wok dose not even exist in the article. and nothing I read indicate that 37% watch at work.

    7. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Totally agree.

      But this becomes a management issue when IT shows up wanting more money to upgrade the infrastructure and the network circuits to the internet and every building in between. It's not cheap when you start looking at infrastructure getting into the 10's of gigabits/sec.

    8. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ironically I tried to follow the link in the TFA, and guess what .. it's blocked from here

      How is that ironic?

    9. Re:Sounds like... by sqorbit · · Score: 5, Funny

      IT Departments are too busy wasting time on /. to worry about how is watching Netflix.

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    10. Re:Sounds like... by TWX · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.

      This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.

      When the IT department is tasked with such responsibilities, as it's recognized that only the IT department has the technical capability to do the job properly, it can take two approaches. One approach is to filter, the other approach is to log and report. Given that companies are increasingly turning to fully centralized systems that allow one to drill-down from the Internet connection and DNS to the records of the user logged-in to a computer and the process they're running that has initiated that Internet connection. The company can set internal policies as to what behavior is and isn't acceptable, and then can enforce against employees that violate those policies. A defense by an employee claiming that they weren't stopped from said behavior would probably ring-hollow, if the employee acknowledged that the rules say they're not to use the Internet connection for such purposes then they effectively have no defense to being fired for it.

      So which looks better, a simple egress filter that blocks access to something that the employee shouldn't do while at work, or logging and then punishing for violating the rules?

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    11. Re: Sounds like... by TWX · · Score: 1

      Must be an Alanis Morissette fan.

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    12. Re:Sounds like... by BradleyUffner · · Score: 1

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.

      This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.

      If management wants it tracked and reported, it becomes an IT issue.

    13. Re:Sounds like... by DaMattster · · Score: 2

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...

      It's not a question of egress filtering. I'll bet most of the binge watching is being done on smartphones and tablets using cellular data.

    14. Re:Sounds like... by DickBreath · · Score: 1

      > Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...

      Yes. People should not be watching Netflix at work when they should be watching pr0n instead.

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    15. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your assuming that watching or listening to Netflix in the background is a problem in the first place. I don't see it as any different than Spotify or YouTube - and as long as all the work gets done people consider it a cool place to work.

      Because it is ITs job to police other users, which is why I have firewalls, proxies, blacklists, bluecoat, and purview over what is and is not allowed.

      Part of network management is knowing what your capacity and security posture is, and making sure what's going on by individual users keeps you in the green. That's why I have netflow data, splunk, solarwinds, and control what people can and can't install and can and can't view - such as pornography.

      You have a very limited view of what IT does, I hope you don't work in it.

    16. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.

      This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.

      The CIO and CISO are usually considered part of the "IT department". Insulating and protecting the workplace environment from risk is their fucking business. Service stability often comes second to mitigating the legal liability of a hostile work environment, also known as the reason corporate internet filters exist, and a Netflix stream could easily trigger the sue-happy snowflake generation.

      Dealing with violations is an HR issue. That has fuck-all to do with the parents comment, which is valid.

    17. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Most Netflix is 3mbps, it would take about 310 people streaming to Max a 1gbit line assuming nothing else was going on. A 1gbit line is about $2600 per month from a T1 provider like Centurylink, and if you managed to have 310 active streamers it suggests you have plenty more which aren't streaming at all - meaning you have thousands of employees and suddenly at that scale a 10gbit line is not only cheap, it's damn near required for proper disaster recovery or COOP.

    18. Re: Sounds like... by Khyber · · Score: 1

      "Your assuming that watching or listening to Netflix in the background is a problem in the first place."

      You're supposed to be working, period. If you're WATCHING something other than your job and you are not on your legally-required break periods, you aren't doing your fucking job.

      "You have a very limited view of what IT does, I hope you don't work in it."

      Meanwhile, you aren't competent enough to work IT period with your current mindset.

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    19. Re: Sounds like... by David_Hart · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "Your assuming that watching or listening to Netflix in the background is a problem in the first place."

      You're supposed to be working, period. If you're WATCHING something other than your job and you are not on your legally-required break periods, you aren't doing your fucking job.

      "You have a very limited view of what IT does, I hope you don't work in it."

      Meanwhile, you aren't competent enough to work IT period with your current mindset.

      Um, no... Some people have a job which requires doing very little a lot of the time with periods of activity. For example, Fire Fighters aren't actively working 100% of the time that they are on the job.

      Yes, I'm sure that a percentage of the binge watchers are simply slacking but you can't paint them all with the same brush unless you know what the actual job is.

    20. Re:Sounds like... by ArhcAngel · · Score: 1

      Cheaper/Easier generally wins but it also tends to create a plethora of other problems. Case in point: The marketing group of the company I work for had a web store on Second Life back when it was still a thing. But of course Information security blocked the entire domain so there was no way to actually get to the store from the company network.

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    21. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...

      It's not a question of egress filtering. I'll bet most of the binge watching is being done on smartphones and tablets using cellular data.

      I have watched parts of a ball game on WATCH ESPN at work. But that is a rare occurrence. I do use my cell data plan, which I agree many folks probably are doing to 'keep it off the books'.

      Of course, watching during your lunch break should be quite acceptable.

    22. Re:Sounds like... by E-Rock · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Nope. I don't care if you're watching Netflix, listening to Pandora, or whatever as long as you aren't annoying the people around you and are getting your work done.

    23. Re: Sounds like... by cayenne8 · · Score: 1
      If someone is streaming Netflix or whatever at work, why the fuck would they be stupid and do it ON the work network?

      If you do it and want to evade easy detection, you do it over your phone or table with your own wireless connections....hell, pretty much everyone has limitless plans now, don't they?

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    24. Re:Sounds like... by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 2

      Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...

      The amount of time I spent finding ways around (usually successfully) IT firewalls greatly exceeds the amount of time I spend dicking around in more liberated companies. Granted, I'm (as I write this) off task, but less off task.

      Still, watching Netflix at work is a bridge too far. Once you open that particular pandora's box, it gets very hard to contain.

    25. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like you forgot that personal cellphones and tablets are a thing.

    26. Re: Sounds like... by Metabolife · · Score: 1

      People can't work their entire shift full force without pause until their "legally-required break periods"? It's physically impossible for a prolonged period of time. Trust me, I've tried it.

    27. Re:Sounds like... by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 1

      So which looks better, a simple egress filter that blocks access to something that the employee shouldn't do while at work, or logging and then punishing for violating the rules?

      Depends on the work environment. In my line of work, there's a lot of hurry up and wait. I'm expected to be in the office, even during the wait. I'm expected to do the hurry up, even when at night or on a weekend. In this environment if the employee is watching Netflix, and he's getting his job done, it's his bosses call. Punish may be the optimal path here, as ultimately much of may pay is in performance bonus and it's so easy to cut that because I was watching Netflix at work.

      If the employee is a shift worker, and is tasked with moving as many widgets from inbox to outbox as possible, then I'd be more inclined to prevent rather than punish. Employees in this environment have (and want) very little investment in the company, and punishment is not terribly motivating, and termination too extreme. In this case, just don't let it happen.

      Now all of the above ignores the load something like Netflix in particular places on a network. That can easily get ridiculous and something may need to be done for purely technical reasons.

    28. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So what, this is barely related and nobody wants to hear inane stories about your work life. Slashdot is not a blog.

    29. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now all of the above ignores the load something like Netflix in particular places on a network. That can easily get ridiculous and something may need to be done for purely technical reasons.

      It generally depends on the resolution at which Netflix is being streamed. A 480/720p stream isn't going to impact network performance any more than Youtube already does (and Youtube is generally allowed in most workplaces). A 1080p might put some stress on an otherwise high-usage network, but even then a single stream won't break the back of most corporate networks. If there's an office of 100 users and 37 of them are pulling 1080p streams simultaneously in addition to other network functions, then there might be an issue with bandwidth.

      If for some reason someone is pulling Netflix at 4K, then clearly someone got creative with purchasing and managed to finagle a monitor above their needs.

    30. Re:Sounds like... by Arzaboa · · Score: 1

      Yes, Work should be like prison. Its a good thing they let us into the yard at night.

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    31. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well YouTube has abr and streams over tcp so it's unlikely to push regular web browsing and business tasks.

      Is this supervisor the same coworker who told you about his child sex tourism?

    32. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fuck you creimer! You told that story on slashdot at least 1000 times and the story only shows how stupid you are anyway.

      creimer wrote:

      All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      Shitposting, Amazon affiliate spam, being fat, and being a general nuisance.

    33. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I really want to know creimer. Which place was it where your friend used to tell you about how he got "the most bang for his retirement dollar" by marrying a highschool girl in a 3rd world country.

    34. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not just that you fire an employee in your office. You also don't tell an employee that you had planned to fire them (in front of everybody), but didn't go through with it at the last second. It would be demoralizing and just beyond asshole, even for an asshole boss.

      Presumably, the office manager also enjoyed talking shit to Creimer, and told him of his plans because of a basic lack of respect for Creimer.

    35. Re:Sounds like... by CastrTroy · · Score: 1

      The problem is that you can only block so much stuff. People who want to find a way to slack off will find a way. Whether it's Netflix, video games, or social networking. It's best just to have a whitelist of sites that people can visit. There's not really that many sites that most employees need to have access to. Most employees, even if they are on a computer all day need almost zero web access. Just have a few computers in the break room where they can slack off at lunch or at break. Once people get in the habit of slacking off while at their desk, its' a very big time sink and most people won't have the ability to control how much they slack off, especially if they have one of those really boring jobs where they are just moving stuff between boxes on a computer.

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    36. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Presumably, the office manager also enjoyed talking shit to Creimer, and told him of his plans because of a basic lack of respect for Creimer.

      I didn't know why the division boss came into the lab. Since the lab got frequent visitors (the Chinese delegation was a blast), I did my dog-and-pony show by giving a tour of the lab and explaining the work I was doing. My boss's boss explained the unexpected visit with a belly laugh and told me that the division boss was impressed by my work.

    37. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      $2600 for a gig from centurylink? on what foreign planet is *this*? that won't even buy t3 bandwidth here.. guess you have some competition where you are, because they got *none* here.

    38. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What a load of shit. Bandwidth consumption is absolutely an IT concern.

    39. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Similarly, Facebook is blocked here at work. There are 4 different departments that have a Facebook presence. For the longest time our crappy web filter would not allow exceptions to work properly. That has been corrected (read as replaced) and now specific bypasses are in place for the respective employees.

    40. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wait, how do you, AC, know that? Chris, I mean creimer, never posts as AC? What is happening to my world? Is it all a lie?

    41. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh did you hear about the time that his boss at his current FBI job came down and smashed a flaky keyboard against his desk and told him to clean up the mess?

      Here is something else someone told him at work:

      As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.

      https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55123241

      Yes yes it's certainly weird anywhere creimer works

    42. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can't possibly be creimer. It's too coherent. And never mind that Cisco is on his LinkedIn profile and he's been at his current job for ~3.5 years.

      https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-reimer-b3706928/

    43. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He had a belly laugh and told you of plans to fire you? How did that go down? "Ha ha, you were this close to being fired in front of everybody for an arbitrary reason, with basically no double-checking of the facts! Hilarious! Anyway, you're doing great! Ha Ha!"

      I haven't contracted in a while, but I can't imagine anything like that happening where I did contract. Nor can I imagine discussing the best places to marry a child bride with my co-workers, so maybe things have changed in the meantime.

    44. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      911 dispatchers are in the same group... 90% of the time they are idle with absolutely nothing to do... paperwork caught up, no active calls, no followup needed. What are they supposed to do... sit quietly with their head on the desk?

    45. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      blah blah blah Chineese delegation blah blah blah vp boss came to see creimer (how important he is) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

      Shut the fuck up creimer and buzz off /.

      creimer wrote:

      All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      ***CDREIMER submissions alert!!! please pay attention the submissions update***

      Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

      SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
      Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
      https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
      and mod down his submissions as well.

      creimer wrote:

      I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

      Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

      C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

      But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

      Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
      Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
      All the king's horses
      And all the king's men
      Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
      Together again.

      Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      Creimy's real pictures:
      Before the sex change:
      https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
      After the sex change:
      https://ibb.co/gVad65

      Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
      http://www.keynamics.com/image...

      Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
      https://school.discoveryeducat...

      Creimy acting in educational resource document, he actually confirmed himself on Slashdot that he was handled by Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education! He is really a king Dumpty!:
      http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

    46. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're turning Slashdot into a tabloid with lurid details of creimer's alleged sexual preferences for Russian schoolboys, Bangcock ladyboys and Mexican child brides. Keep up the good work!

    47. Re: Sounds like... by Known+Nutter · · Score: 1

      Woosh!

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    48. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow! A Khyber and Creimer death match!

      A meeting of the mental midgets and undiagnosed personality disorders!

      No matter who loses, we all win!

    49. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What if you were paying some guy $20/hour to landscape your yard and you went out and found that he was watching youtube while connected to your wifi?

    50. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shut the fuck up, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

      You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.

      Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.

      How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????

      The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!

      You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!

      When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!

      Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!

      Bonus:
      Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:

      The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!

      So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!

      Signed:
      The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!

    51. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, you must be new here. Creimer's personal info has been spread far and wide on Slashdot in the last year.

    52. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Poor girl, creimer most probably plainly stole your revenue stream in order to make money to help him realize his dream to replace you with a child bride.

      All his ex-military buddies do it so, for somebody as fragile as creimer, it must have an influence on him.

    53. Re: Sounds like... by Khyber · · Score: 1

      " For example, Fire Fighters aren't actively working 100% of the time that they are on the job."

      Bad example. Hi, former volunteer Memphis Firefighter. When they're not on-call, they're washing the trucks, performing maintenance and clean-up, public service, and MAYBE sleeping or watching TV if they're stationed in-house and there's nothing else to be done (rare.)

      Nice job being clueless, though.

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    54. Re: Sounds like... by Khyber · · Score: 1

      "It's physically impossible for a prolonged period of time. Trust me, I've tried it."

      I do it mining every time I go out, days on end. Try getting more actual exercise for your entire body instead of just your fingers.

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      Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
    55. Re:Sounds like... by Jason+Levine · · Score: 1

      The same is true of (legal) software download sites. My company's web filter blocks them all and that might be a good thing for 95% of employees. However, as an IT professional, I might need something from one of those sites. Then I find that it's blocked and take 10 times as long finding a workaround (non-blocked equivalent software or a way around the block) than I would have taken if I just downloaded the software and fixed the issue.

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    56. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I didn't know why the division boss came into the lab."

      Um, but:

      "the division boss came down to the lab to fire me because a usage report showed that I used 75% of the wireless bandwidth for YouTube. "

      But:

      " My boss's boss explained the unexpected visit with a belly laugh and told me that the division boss was impressed by my work."

    57. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chris' case is getting worse, he spends all day replying to himself as AC on /.

      The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.

      For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.

      Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!

      Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."

      For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.

      IMPORTANT UPDATE:
      Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
      http://www.keynamics.com/image...

      Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:

      Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.

      To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.

      The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!

      Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.

      I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
      http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

      Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
      https://ibb.co/gVad65

      Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
      https://school.discoveryeducat...

      But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.

      Thank You dear users,
      ---
      Nancy Guerrero
      Director
      Special Education
      Santa Clara County Office of Education

    58. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks Nancy,

      Your posts are always enlightening and right on topic! Keep up the good work over there at Special Education!

      Also, I have noted that Chris uses child psychology to convince his so called trolls to give up by pretending they just give him free publicity. That's adoring! ;-)

      Anyway Chris would have a hard time to learn anything above child level matters, including psychology.

      https://childdevelopmentinfo.c...

      ---
      Silvia Bunge
      Psychology Department
      University of California, Berkeley

    59. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You must mean this incident, while his supervisor was talking to him:

      https://school.discoveryeducat...

    60. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can.That's why I make more money than you.

    61. Re:Sounds like... by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 1

      Making sure the company bandwidth is not eaten up by streaming *is* insuring service stability.

      --
      SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
    62. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So, let us get the facts straight here Creimer, you stated you used 30+ laptops. You also stated that you work with 300+ people who all use wireless. So you are saying that your 30+ laptops used more than 75% of the wifi bandwidth for that month?

      Also, another hole in your story is, why doesn't the boss know that you are testing the wifi. Why would he immediately think to fire you? Surely somebody gave you the orders to test the wifi stability. Why did you think he was going to fire you automatically?

      Your stories are shit and make 0 sense. You are a compulsive liar. Nobody believes anything you write. I actually feel sorry for the people that have to put up with you in real life.

      Please do yourself a favor. Leave. The fact that you have to post at -1 says something about you.

    63. Re: Sounds like... by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 1

      Watching a GPU spit out useless fake currency isn't "mining", regardless of what the hype people tell you

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    64. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'd fire him and hire a Mexican for $10 an hour

    65. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nice try Lilly if I knew how to dialout to tokyo I'd call cps on u child molester

    66. Re:Sounds like... by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      Whoops, careful their partner. They said they were watching at work, not that they were using the company network. How about down nothing nepotistic managements, the mommy and daddy demand they be at work and stay out of trouble and watch the nobodies to make sure they are not stealing, not that they do any actual work. Not to forget simple customer analysis. So the customer is a worker and it is working hours and hence they are accessing it at work via mobile services.

      No factory workers watching netflix, just factory management watching netflix and the IT staff, well, now they know all company secrets and hence they can do what they like as long as they keep managements secrets and the network keeps working.

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    67. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Found the PHB.

    68. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The fact that you have to post at -1 says something about you.

      That there are 30+ comments for every comment by creimer for the last two months says a lot about the one/two/three trolls who are stalking him.

    69. Re: Sounds like... by LinuxIsGarbage · · Score: 1

      If someone is streaming Netflix or whatever at work, why the fuck would they be stupid and do it ON the work network?

      If you do it and want to evade easy detection, you do it over your phone or table with your own wireless connections....hell, pretty much everyone has limitless plans now, don't they?

      The mobile data service at my work is very slow and congested because everyone is connected to one repeater pointed at the carrier's tower.

      Netflix's offline mode would work.

    70. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair. if there's 30 posts in the thread at least 10 of them will be Creimer posting at AC.

    71. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh did you hear about the time that his boss at his current FBI job came down and smashed a flaky keyboard against his desk and told him to clean up the mess?

      Here is something else someone told him at work:

      As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.

      https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55123241

      Yes yes it's certainly weird anywhere creimer works

      Can't forget the story of working at Google helpdesk and having to help new graduates turn on a computer.

    72. Re: Sounds like... by AF_Cheddar_Head · · Score: 1

      Try being a firefighter on a military installation. Still using 24hr shifts

      - During the day definitely doing the tasks you mentioned
          --Training
          --Vehicle prep
          -- Equipment maintenance
          -- Public Service

      After 1800, if night training isn't scheduled lots of downtime
          -- Exercising in a in-station gym (I us the term gym loosely)
          -- Studying for a degree
          -- Watching lots of TV, shooting pool and playing cards

      Reference source: 15 years as an active-duty Air Force firefighter

    73. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So which looks better, a simple egress filter that blocks access to something that the employee shouldn't do while at work, or logging and then punishing for violating the rules?

      That depends on the management. Managers without gonads will want the former - then they don't have to have the uncomfortable confrontations because IT will get stuck with all the questions and complaints. This type shouldn't be in management but it is common. Sadistic managers will go for the later so they can have evidence with which to slowly kill their prey. This type shouldn't be in management either but it is also common.

      The best managers will want a bit of both with some wiggle room and without absolutes. Complete blocks on porn sites but not all streaming. Logging so judgement calls can be made case by case. Comparing histories so one person isn't held feet to the fire while someone else is allowed to skirt the rules. Senior management doing THEIR job to make sure mid management is being fair and not playing favorites. Being leaders by examples rather than bosses that go by 'do as I say not as I do.' This type of management is rare. That's why it ends up being your either/or setup on the firewall.

    74. Re: Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We are not talking rocket science here. 7 hours actually working at work in a regular job? Should be no frickin issue. I do it all the time and I hate it when people are on Facebook or chatting or whatever else they do to slack off. Of course I go home after that. Lunch hour? Why? I can eat comfortably in 15 minutes. Most people barely do 4 but stay 8. If I only actually worked 4 I'd rather stay at the office for just 4. But hey yes I've even been told by my boss that I can't expect people to actually work 7 hours. I got into management recently after being a software developer the last 10 years. So I worked the full 7 hours but now as a boss I can't expect my employees to do that? Fuck that!

    75. Re: Sounds like... by amalcolm · · Score: 1

      "A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result"

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    76. Re:Sounds like... by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

      I'll bet that the business very much cares when their link to the internet gets saturated with streaming media and work can't get done. How do you solve that without filtering or traffic shaping? And who would do such filtering and shaping? IT would.

      So, right back to my first statement.

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    77. Re:Sounds like... by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

      Why would an IT department care what you do with your own connection?

      Oh, you interpreted my comment as "IT should be the work police" when it was really meant as "IT will get the blame if all the streamers clog the network to the point that actual services suffer"

      Sounds like you forgot that bandwidth isn't infinite, and actually costs money.

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    78. Re: Sounds like... by Khyber · · Score: 1

      And you're a fucking moron if you think that's the kind of mining I do. Get off your dumb ass and pick up a pickaxe.

      --
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    79. Re:Sounds like... by david_thornley · · Score: 1

      Whitelisting would almost certainly not be good for my division of the company. There's too many things we might have to look at. It might work for others.

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    80. Re:Sounds like... by humasyed · · Score: 1

      Iphonex FaceID

  2. They must have boring jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What kind of jobs have these people got where you can watch TV series while working?

    1. Re:They must have boring jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I suspect that they *AREN'T* working.

    2. Re:They must have boring jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Forklift operator

    3. Re:They must have boring jobs by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am an Uber driver so I binge watch while I drive people around.

    4. Re:They must have boring jobs by TWX · · Score: 1

      Dammit Klaus

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      Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
    5. Re:They must have boring jobs by DickBreath · · Score: 4, Funny

      > What kind of jobs have these people got where you can watch TV series while working?

      The easiest job in the world:

      Donald Trump's Fact Checker.

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    6. Re:They must have boring jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ask creimer, he knows a thing or two thousand about jobs where you work one hour a day, and can spend the rest of the day shitposting on Slashdot. Or hatching one useless scheme after another. Or being a borderline-creep unwanted shouting obese man.

      This little youtube video is basically creimer's entire posting history on Slashdot condensed into less than 8 minutes.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      And just in case you think that's too harsh:

      https://science.slashdot.org/c...

      That's a middle-aged man with a "career" in IT security posting that.

    7. Re:They must have boring jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Boring or pointless. I've had jobs in the past where I could have watched flies climb a wall instead of working and nothing if value would have been lost.

    8. Re:They must have boring jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obama's Teleprompter.

  3. At work or while working? by thewolfkin · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a difference between watching at work and watching while working. In my department (engineering) there's a lot of people who watch netflix at work I'd say there are about 36-40 people in our office space and I'd say a good 15 of them I see watching netflix maybe 10-12 of them binge. But only 2-3 do it while working. Most people here work and then when they're off the clock or on their lunch break they binge a few episodes of Friends or oddly enough lately Full House. I swear to you 1st gen people have the oddest tastes in American television. The third genners are typically watching random netflix anime or the hyper shows but the first gen guys and girls it's Friends and Full House. I'd have thought The office would be showing up all the time but not since last year for whatever reason.

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    1. Re:At work or while working? by mark-t · · Score: 4, Informative

      When I first read the headline, I was thinking that these people should probably be fired, but you've raised a good point. At the place where I used to work, my supervisor would quite routinely watch Netflix during his lunch break, while eating at his desk, and there was nothing wrong with it.

      The office floor plan there was open, so it's not like he was in a private place where nobody could see what he was doing either.

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    2. Re:At work or while working? by TheCastro1689 · · Score: 1

      Do you mean Fuller House? That could be why they watch Full House as well, or they're old enough to have been kids when it was on the first time.

    3. Re:At work or while working? by thewolfkin · · Score: 1

      Nope. a first generation Indian immigrant watching FullHouse. that's why it's so stranger. I understand the ones who watch Friends and the ones who watch The Office it's just this one dude who watches the original Full House. I haven't care enough to ask him but I notice.

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      Just another second banana
  4. Naturally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That would be the millennial percentage, I'd wager. Why is anyone surprised? They can't tattle to mom and dad, so they tattle to HR or administration, why would they change this behavior, either? I am waiting for the day and will be thrilled when millennials actually surprise us by growing up, even a little bit.

    1. Re:Naturally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Said the butthurt babyboomer who worked 'hard' and is now being replaced regardlessly.

    2. Re:Naturally by JonnyCalcutta · · Score: 1

      Worst troll ever. You should be ashamed.

    3. Re:Naturally by DickBreath · · Score: 1

      Wouldn't millennials be playing video games at work instead of watching Netflix?

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      I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
    4. Re:Naturally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wouldn't millennials be playing video games at work instead of watching Netflix?

      You got that wrong millennials wouldn't even be in the (gasp!) workplace so it must be someone else...

  5. Television at work by Baron_Yam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    >37% of Netflix's US subscribers binge-watch shows and movies while at work.

    Yep. It happens here all the time - we have a big pipe, and it's paid for even if we max it out. There are people who watch on breaks, on lunch, or if they're in a position that requires them to be physically present waiting for an issue to occur but doesn't offer much opportunity to do other work while waiting (we only have a couple of those positions, so far as I'm aware).

    The company only cares if it affects business so if business apps are affected, IT throttles or blocks as necessary. If users are watching videos when they're supposed to be working, eventually there's a complaint and it's handled by HR (hasn't happened yet, to the best of my knowledge).

  6. Ugh, the prose is torture by jordanjay29 · · Score: 1

    Could they drop a few more references to Netflix shows, please? Maybe creep us out with Frank Underwood/Kevin Spacey or make an Arrested Development pun? I'm not sure I can stomach a normal sentence anymore. /s

    Also, only Netflix would be this concerned with people getting spoiled watching over the shoulders of others.

  7. We're Comuting/Travelling ? by DrYak · · Score: 1

    We're most likely to consume electronic media (though in my case, more frequently e-books than netflix) while in the train on our way to some work-related conference / meeting / etc. (which still somewhat counts as "work"), than when at home with direct access to significant other (leading to much more interesting real-life home activities than consuming some media on some screen).

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  8. In other news by steveo777 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.

    I can't watch stuff and do real work, but some years ago I had a crappy job that required no brain power, and I binged (using a USB drive and portable VLC) all sorts of shows and movies. I was a top performer consistently in my department and basically had to spend a lot of time NOT working to keep them from upping the workload on everyone else, who somehow couldn't keep up with their heads down all day.

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    1. Re:In other news by TWX · · Score: 1

      37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.

      Having been acquainted with my share of people that fit this model, they're not exactly known for making good decisions, so no, they probably wouldn't cancel their netflix subscriptions if they were rendered unemployed.

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      Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
    2. Re:In other news by Snotnose · · Score: 2

      Used to work for a company where it took 40 minutes just to link everything together. They did a study, maxed out everyone's RAM, and got it down to 20 minutes. Netflix wasn't streaming back then so we played flash games.

    3. Re:In other news by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      I can't watch stuff and do real work

      Even you seasoned hard overworking American doesn't do "real work" 100% of the time while they are "at work". Despite your few employee benefits you generally do still get lunch breaks.

    4. Re:In other news by Fetko · · Score: 2

      More free time. Better add Hulu too!

  9. Lots of compiling... by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1
    It is all the fault of the build management group. All projects are created with insane dependencies, no hierarchy, completely flat architecture of every source file depends on every header, and just declaring the function prototype triggers insane amount of recompilations ... Just the other day the clean rebuild took as long as it would have taken to watch Chennai Express, BK, Secret Superstar, Bahubali I and Bahubali II

    Well, that is my story and I am sticking to it. https://xkcd.com/303/

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  10. Yesterdays bullying story. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Make this interesting. Ive had a coworker in the past that was watching Netflix and mlb tv and not doing his job. Management didnâ(TM)t do much about it so we, hid peers teased him mercilessly about it. Not trying to be hostile, but communicating that we are ticked that he was slacking off.

    Would that be bulllying?

  11. Disgraceful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You take the money, and then you do something else with your time. Get real, grow up, there's always something your 'employer' would rather have you do. If not, then suggest it, make it stick, and add it to your CV.

  12. Of course! by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

    Of course we do! Need a break from Slashdot once in a while!

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  13. Imagine how much more successful people by MikeDataLink · · Score: 1

    could be if they did their jobs instead of fucking off. Nope instead they choose to watch Netflix and dick around and then complain when they get passed by for promotions and raises.

    --
    Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
    1. Re:Imagine how much more successful people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Imagine how productive people would be if they got to share in the success of the company with higher productivity?

      Stuff your title-only promotion and 2% COL raise. If I got a percent of what money I personally made for the business, or decent revenue sharing, I would be working like a dog 10 hrs a day. Most people get rewarded the same to be a model employee or, a-la office space, "work just hard enough not to get fired."

    2. Re:Imagine how much more successful people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      of course you're posting this on /. this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black

    3. Re:Imagine how much more successful people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't worry. The next recession will take care of those people when companies start chopping headcount.

  14. Be sure not to miss by boudie2 · · Score: 1

    Louis C.K. 2017 playing now on Netflix. From the description: Louis C.K. is ready to get down to business with his latest comedy special. A reminder of what can happen when "you're supposed to be working". Be sure to catch Louis next week at Denny's in Puyallup, Washington.

    1. Re: Be sure not to miss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Found the chronic work masterbater!

  15. Most of you have it all wrong by PortHaven · · Score: 1

    Now, first off, I wonder who these folks are, because most of my friends and acquaintances can't do that. Now binge watching Netflix on their hour+ commute to work...sure.

    But everyone talking about infrastructure, is probably missing the fact that most of these folks are probably watching on their own phones. NOT on their work machines.

    1. Re:Most of you have it all wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I know a Senior Technical Programmer in my company that pretty much watches Netflix/MSNBC streams all day while she works, right on her second monitor. Nobody complains about it since she gets shit done and done well and doesn't turn up the volume loud.

  16. The Cure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    THEY picked a shitty president 2-years in a row of doing nothing. Have them watch more videos of genuine Kenya healthcare system; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QFZiEm2Fc

  17. CDREIMER submissions alert!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ***CDREIMER submissions alert!!! please pay attention the submissions update***

    Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

    Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

    Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as article on /. so make sure to go to:
    https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
    and mod down his submissions as well.

    Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

    C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

    But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

    Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
    Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
    All the king's horses
    And all the king's men
    Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
    Together again.

    Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Creimy's real pictures:
    Before the sex change:
    https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
    After the sex change:
    https://ibb.co/gVad65

    Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
    http://www.keynamics.com/image...

    Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
    https://school.discoveryeducat...

    Creimy acting in educational resource document, he actually confirmed himself on Slashdot that he was handled by Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education! He is really a king Dumpty!:
    http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

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  19. Why do these jobs exist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What the fuck kind of useless jobs do these people work where they have time to watch movies or tv series on netflix? They all must be fairly superfluous as it is if they can sit around watching a screen instead of doing something useful.

    1. Re:Why do these jobs exist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What the fuck kind of useless jobs do these people work where they have time to watch movies or tv series on netflix? They all must be fairly superfluous as it is if they can sit around watching a screen instead of doing something useful.

      Some are doing something useful--there's quite a few jobs where your job is to be there and available if and when whatever you're there to handle happens, because they need you there immediately and not on your way. Sometimes downtime costs enough that it's outright cheaper to pay somebody to sit around binge-watching TV shows or the like most of the time they're at work.

  20. creimer submission allert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    creimer wrote:

    I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
    https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
    and mod down his submissions as well.

  21. should of had a tester login! by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    should of had a tester login!

  22. says who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The number 37 does not appear in TFA.

  23. CREIMER MOST BANG FOR RETIREMENT DOLLARS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    75% of the 6gbps is around 4.5gbs. Keep in mind for this entire exercise I will round down and lowball.
    Youtube's highest bitrate is 50mbps. This is 4k@60fps, a video quality that most laptops are not capable of displaying and few corporate events are recorded at. But let's just pretend this isn't made up

    You would have required nearly 3x as many laptops to consume that much bandwidth and that's putting everything short of a busted microwave into the story to make it feasible.

    Hey I heard you're good with retirement finances. Is there anything you think I should be doing to get the most bang from my retirement dollars?
    creimer writes:

    As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.
    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55123241

    Oh wow thanks for the great advice buddy!

    1. Re:CREIMER MOST BANG FOR RETIREMENT DOLLARS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Poor Creimy, his head must be hurting really bad with all those maths!

      You are way above his ameba intelligence capabilities, dear sir.

  24. CREIMER (SEEMS TO) APPROVE OF CHILD BRIDES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why not just admit that this entire story is a fabrication and that you nearly constantly lie?
    It would be a good excuse for your apparent approval of child brides

    If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.

    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55125199

    You're aware that are some states in the U.S. that allow underage marriage as young as 14 years old?

    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55123829

    As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.

    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55123241

    That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an underage sweet thing and bequeath all your possessions to the village.

    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55122609

  25. Serious answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    From working in engineering/aerospace firms:

    You set up a TV series to play on your second monitor / or just have it play underneath everything. You can "watch" quantico while doing CAD drawings or putting together spreadsheets. If you feel like you missed something, it's easy to rewind if you need to (Work usually has fat pipes).

    Where I currently work:

    2 of the millennials have Netflix play a season of shows while they work. Listen on headphones. It's no different than the guy who sits in his office listening to baseball games all day or Rush Limbaugh all day, it's just a TV show. I don't know anyone that actually focuses on the TV show they watch, it's just filler noise.

    As a manager, as long as they get quality work done on time and under budget, who cares what they do.

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  27. OK I WAS LYING JUST ONCE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd like to present a theory: Maybe CREIMER DOES NOT WANT OR APPROVE OF CHILD BRIDES. That was just an entertaining work of fictional falsehood!

    His real stories are about how bosses come down to fire him, smash keyboards on his desk, but he's such a lovable scamp he has them belly laughing and slapping him on the backfat within 15 minutes.

    Then he was promoted to senior system engineer... and that bosses name:

    Albert Einstein

  28. Has anyone here actually used Netflix? by whyyisthissohard · · Score: 0

    Their foundations of their library of content is bottom of the barrel crap that does not and can not sell as individually marketed products. The people who "binge watch" Netflix are not human beings. They have had their brains and souls removed.

  29. Hillary's server sysadmin... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The easiest job in the world....

  30. CREIMER CHILD BRIDE DISCUSSION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    creimer most probably plainly stole your revenue stream in order to make money to help him realize his dream to replace you with a child bride.

    Are you sure?
    Creimer never said he wanted a child bride, only that his friends have one, it's legal in some states, and he thinks it's as "American as apple pie!"

    Besides according to creimer

    If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.

    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55125199

    So he's ok. Maybe some chicas are more expensive than others depending on if they're what creimer refers to as "underage sweet things" or if they're of the feminine penis variety. So maybe he doesn't have enough money to purchase the one special chica that he knows is right for him. I mean buying a bride is a big deal and you don't wanna be that guy paying alimony to 5 different (NOT CHILD) brides! How embarrassing!

    That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an *underage sweet thing* and bequeath all your possessions to the village.

    https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11064719&cid=55122609

  31. CHILD BRIDES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can you tell me how Christopher Dale Reimer aka C.D. REIMER actually feels about child brides?
    He seems at least approving of the idea in some of his comments but in others he denies actually wanting them.

    As a chris expert it would be nice if you could clear this up for me. Thank you.

  32. Working at home by CaffeinatedTech · · Score: 0

    How many home based businesses in the US? I often 'watch' something in a small window in the corner of my screen while I'm working.

  33. CHRIS DALE REIMER MEXICAN CHILD BRIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not true. Yesterday you made 3 comments and only one of them went anywhere near 3 responses. Because the child bride talk was embarrassing to you

    Today you decided you will start submitting stories and voting them up with sockpuppets so now people are much more pissed off at you.

  34. CREIMER MEXICAN CHILD BRIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Everyone hates him here. Just because he only has 3 dedicated trolls doesn't mean anyone else wants him here.
    I'm one of creimer's daily trolls and I tell you what, I never have to worry about my account karma, it stays at excellent all by itself. I say things that I know people won't like and I don't have complex schemes or armies of sockpuppets to do this.

    I would think he's incapable of understanding why people hate him but he knows. If he couldn't help it then he wouldn't have sockpuppets with mod points.

    Go off to mexico and find your child bride fatass. I'm going to make sure that when people type CHRIS DALE REIMER they find your creepy child bride posts.

    1. Re:CREIMER MEXICAN CHILD BRIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm going to make sure that when people type CHRIS DALE REIMER they find your creepy child bride posts.

      I guess you didn't read creimer's blog post last month about dick pics. You can't ruin someone if they write about it in their blog.

      After falsely accusing me of threatening to shoot people, creating fake accounts to mock me, and posting dick pics of Russian schoolboys with my contact info (a situation so vile that I couldn’t write about it in the blog at the time), the trolls pulled a power play that I haven’t seen happen on Slashdot in 15+ years. During the long Labor Day weekend, the mods (moderators) systematically down voted every comment I had to -1 to drag my karma from excellent (50 comments per day) to terrible (two comments per day). So I pulled a power play of my own: I asked management to delete my ten-year-old account.

      https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/10/02/why-i-had-my-ten-year-old-slashdot-account-deleted/

    2. Re:CREIMER MEXICAN CHILD BRIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lol you're so hilariously autistic to believe that that blog entry provides you any protection at all. First of all you know we're talking about your mexican child bride fixation and not on your russian schoolboy fixation. You know this but you're intentionally deceptive.
      You must think everyone's an idiot But it's not true, people nod their heads at the retard and play along because it's easier. They know you tried to fool them and they lose respect for you.. silently. IRL advice homey

      It's even funnier that you think the whole blog doesn't make you look like a loony anyhow. My boss has never smashed my keyboard. I don't have a 10 year history of battling other users on tech websites. The blog makes you look weird as fuck.

    3. Re:CREIMER MEXICAN CHILD BRIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There you are again spamming amazon affiliate links through your blog with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

      You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.

      Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.

      How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????

      The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!

      You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!

      When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!

      Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!

      Bonus:
      Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:

      The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!

      So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!

      Signed:
      The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!

  35. Video at work by duke_cheetah2003 · · Score: 1

    I hope IT managers and other people in management positions allow this, and not clamp down on videoing while working. I personally love doing this, I mostly pick stuff that I can just listen to and occasionally glance at the video if it calls my attention. It's a great way to make the day go faster, much like listening to music or the radio, which gets a bit old after a while. It's nice to have a larger selection of 'background noise.' that Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, and all other dole out.

    For my line of work, it doesn't distract from my actual work. I'd hope anyone seeking to curtail this behavior examine every case individually to see if it's truly adversely affecting productivity. Some people can multitask better than others. What might be a total distraction for one person might not be for another person.

  36. Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Report him like this
    https://imgur.com/a/jSlkt

    Report him every day for sockpuppet and trolling

    1. Re:Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You need to buy a clue. The creimer account got deleted at creimer's request. There's nothing more that Slashdot management can do about that. You need to get over your butthurt and move on.

    2. Re:Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I will report you every day. Nobody like you here

    3. Re:Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fair enough. I don't like most ACs either.

    4. Re:Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I heard you like child brides

    5. Re:Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sound butthurt, sweet tits.

    6. Re:Everyone report creimer for sockpuppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nobody believes that you asked to have it deleted, no matter how many times you repeat it.

  37. Child Brides? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yo I had 15 mod points a day until I voted up FCLM :|(
    Anyhow I had that for so long I didn't even know why. I just did a half assed evey 2 weeks with my news and then cleared a page of metamod. So I guess that's what it takes I barely moderated myself.
    Anyhow I noticed cdreimer and then modded up FCLM to troll fattytits and I haven't had mod points in awhile. The interesting thing was that even after modding fats down, I had 15 point a day every day for 3 days. Just one extra day but whatever I only modded down fatty solid for a week before modding up his trolls (FatCashewsLoveMe) and I didn't lose my mod points for like a week

    So complain about him. Mod him down it won't hurt your karma! Fucking write feedback@slashdot.org every day!
    Anyhow I'll be able to mod again soon and we'll fuck you to death in the ass fatty.
    PS
    What is this about child brides anyhow?

  38. Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Predicted this 30 years ago in 1985