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It still amazes me, to this day, that people have jobs where they have the time to screw around on their computer all day. How do these jobs continue to exist?
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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.
Do modern notebooks still have vibration sensors? I think old ones had them in the hard drives, to protect them from damage. But SSDs wouldn't need that anymore. In any case, I wonder if detecting vibrations and recognizing the boss via machine learning wouldn't be more elegant.
Well, gait is usable as a biometric identifier. While most approaches use video analysis, I found this a paper [1] that is about identifying people through footstep induced structural vibration using a geophone[2]. It would be quite interesting if it is possible to measure the structural vibration using a laptops or smartphones built in accelerometers. But I think acoustic sensors would be a better way. Or a combinat…
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To not embarrass everybody else who are also doing it, not least your boss.
Why would it be embarrassing to state "I currently have nothing to do right now, is there anything available I can help with." if you cannot figure out anything productive you could be doing on your own. Are people's managers actually saying to them, "Yes, there is nothing you can do right now, just sit in your seat and do nothing until I come get you"? I've never had that experience, and is why I'm asking about it.
I'm not saying it's always like this, but it happens.
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Exactly what I was thinking. I remember being so confused by it as a kid when I saw it in games. Like, why do you need a key that displays a fake DOS prompt?
It was useful when my parents walked by and thought I was doing homework. Being in the DOS prompt was at least slightly more legit than playing a game.
If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of…
There’s an entire book written about this phenomenon, called Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
There always comes times when there is not much happening development is going on. In my earlier company due to the same situation, I started contributing an open-source project and build side projects.