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It is as if you were doing work

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Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by threepipeproblm »

blauditore wrote: post #134
threepipeproblm wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember the first time I used X Window and noticed windows not stealing focus. It was one of those times where you realize you have not even understood the full extent of your abuse. Approx. 20 years later and Windows still can't get this basic thing right.

I totally see the problem, but on the other hand, I explicitly disabled focus steal protection in CCSM because I occasionally missed some (to me relevant) notifications.

Right. It's not really a binary problem. Perhaps something like the Windows Action Center, or whatever it's called, is really needed at O/S level to make non-stealing work best as the default.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by neilsimp1 »

majewsky wrote: post #103
fomojola wrote: post #15

Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. While we're on this, can everyone please post their favorite ridiculous meeting title that is really real? I'll start with a recurring meeting series from last year that was called "mid-sprint calibration".

Canceled: Weekly Project Update

This was the title of an actual, not cancelled, meeting in Outlook.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by neilsimp1 »

nneonneo wrote: post #137
majewsky wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. While we're on this, can everyone please post their favorite ridiculous meeting title that is really real? I'll start with a recurring meeting series from last year that was called "mid-sprint calibration".

"Site visit, cum lunch".

Do you work at Pornhub?

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by pmiller2 »

likelynew wrote: post #90

I can totally relate to the superficial points. In my work, I can cut my work to half if I do what I think is best and achieve the same end goals. A big proportion of my work goes to useless things, doing what anyone think is right, and I am instructed to try them all. And even worse, I have to report what I did everyday in nice readable way, due to which I sometimes build temporary things that I know I will have to…

I would say that if you've done any work in a productive direction, you've achieved something that day and can feel ok reporting your work in progress. Not all tasks may be able to be finished in a day, but you can make incremental progress on anything, even if it's only to find out a particular approach is infeasible.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by LanceH »

dpwm wrote: post #128

At first I thought this was a satire of modern work. Now I'm convinced it is at least as much a satire of GUI toolkit widget developments or, more generally, corporate User Interface design. The game emphasises just how close to being terrible most UI widgets are, and illustrates beautifully that the difference that makes them terrible is usually the only thing that differentiates them from validated text input compo…

It is just as much an indictment of managerial input on UI, or anything really. "This is important, it should grab focus." The same basic mentality that gets all issues listed as priority 1.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by jff »

QuantumGravy wrote: post #115
fomojola wrote: post #15

Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting mandatory meetings so people can bitch at you on Google Hangouts and Slack afterward for missing the ones you didn't attend, even though you'd told everyone in advance that you couldn't make it.

Don't forget the same meeting populated 2-3 times because somebody set up a recurring meeting invite and then made a new one and the old one never really deleted properly so you've now got the same meeting twice from 2:30-3:30 every Thursday.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by dmarlow »

Ntrails wrote: post #139
yttrium wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My god, I'm starting to think Post Insurance Trauma meetings are in order. Everyone else I've met who worked/started in Insurance feels the same way. I can still recall those janky 'Internet Safety' etc. web seminars that restart if you accidentally click the wrong button and inexplicably take 45 minutes.

I have spent more time trying to hack my way through web-flash-etc training courses than I've spent actually doing them. It was very rare I was able to actually get to the end without having to resort to an ahk script pressing "next" every 10 minutes overnight

Screengrab --> ocr --> index makes for easy q/a at the end...

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by Ntrails »

dmarlow wrote: post #147
Ntrails wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have spent more time trying to hack my way through web-flash-etc training courses than I've spent actually doing them. It was very rare I was able to actually get to the end without having to resort to an ahk script pressing "next" every 10 minutes overnight

Screengrab --> ocr --> index makes for easy q/a at the end...

You have sensitive client data to send to your client.

Do you:

a) Put it on pastebin and send them a link

b) email it to them

c) put it on a securely encrypted pen drive, courier that to the client, and provide the password via a second communication channel.

(You did not have to do the course to answer the quiz, the answers would generally reveal themselves through the art of sounding super corporate - whilst simultaneously being the thing you've literally never ever seen anyone do)

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by digi_owl »

owenjonesuk wrote: post #122
michaelmior wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing that still happens to me on an infrequent but regular basis is clicking on something I didn't intend because something popped up under my cursor. In general, this seems like a hard problem to solve. I want notifications to pop up but I could happen to be doing something in that area of the screen.

Firefox implemented something a few years ago where buttons on pop-ups were greyed out for a few seconds, to avoid this. I believe it was a security concern that an online game could get you to click in a certain place at a certain time, and make a pop-up just before it asking for permission to do something, so you clicked Accept without meaning to.

They also have something like this on the download dialog, where the accept button stays gray unless the dialog has focus.
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