I remember some guy at Verizon outsourcing his entire job to china. He was consistently getting top marks and promotions while all he was doing was looking at cat pictures all day. Daytripper is level 1. Outsourcing your job to China is level 2. Something just clicked in my head. Start up idea!
Level 3 = Level 2 + WFH.
Level 4 = Level 3 + outsource the status reporting to a local, and simply H instead of WFH.
You have now achieved the goal set by Tim F, and you can replace those cat pics with a real physical cat.
I feel that it's easier just to have clear tasks with deadlines, using decent project management software like say Asana, Monday, or whatever. If they're meeting the deadlines and the work is good, why bother wasting time being big bro and treating them like a child? Why not just go by results? (you can check commits as well, and CI not going off will at least tell you nothing is broken)
If you work in an environment where you're expected to be busy at all times even without much to do - well.. things like this come in handy.
Once had a well paying job that I kind of got tired of not having much to do (long story: tried to quit, offered to be available on contract basis, nope they gave me awesome retention bonus, was asked to just stick around until company does X Y Z). Anyway I came in late, took 2 hour lunch, left early. Still was tired of being bored and was all caught up on YouTube. Got to the point I just told boss I’m not playing this pretend work game anymore, in fact I’m not even going to check my email anymore, call me when you need something from me. I did about 2-4 hours of work per month for several months. Picked up another job, eventually the company had done XYZ and they paid me retention and a 12 month severance. Never understood any of it, but didn’t complain.
The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he w…
> Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills People sometimes challenge Google's interviewing process as being unnecessarily stringent. What I can say about it is that you won't find BS like this happening at Google.
Probably because Google's corporate spyware is better.
> Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills People sometimes challenge Google's interviewing process as being unnecessarily stringent. What I can say about it is that you won't find BS like this happening at Google.
This is bullshit. Why would any interview process filter out the factors that lead to screwing around, working on other things, or just burnout? They won’t and they can’t, as these are dynamic factors. Also I’m curious as to why you think a white board interview of all things is the deciding factor in at even minimizing this behavior. A plausible reason why these behaviors are less common at google and Facebook etc i…
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but google officially gives 20% of your time to screw around.
I remember some guy at Verizon outsourcing his entire job to china. He was consistently getting top marks and promotions while all he was doing was looking at cat pictures all day. Daytripper is level 1. Outsourcing your job to China is level 2. Something just clicked in my head. Start up idea!
Level 3 = Level 2 + WFH. Level 4 = Level 3 + outsource the status reporting to a local, and simply H instead of WFH. You have now achieved the goal set by Tim F, and you can replace those cat pics with a real physical cat.
Level 5 = create a startup that does this as a service.
This is why I built a custom tool to automatically hide all "marked" windows as soon as I switch off of them. Could be integrated with something like this pretty easily.
I'd use a separate virtual desktop for off-topic tasks, then just switch to that. Simple command in Linux, probably also in Windows
I tried this but found the shift between desktops far more jarring, people would definitely know you were up to sow thing if all of a sudden multiple monitors jump to a whole different set of windows, compared to just hiding one or two small ones.
This is bullshit. Why would any interview process filter out the factors that lead to screwing around, working on other things, or just burnout? They won’t and they can’t, as these are dynamic factors. Also I’m curious as to why you think a white board interview of all things is the deciding factor in at even minimizing this behavior. A plausible reason why these behaviors are less common at google and Facebook etc i…
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but google officially gives 20% of your time to screw around.
Why is there a receiver, instead of running an app on the receiving system to listen for bluetooth/http/etc messages?
Maybe because something needs to be at each end, to shine a laser at one end and to detect it at the other. Or you could use a reflector, but that's still two objects.
It's not using the TX and RX sides to form a beam, it's using a ToF distance sensor.