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Re: It is as if you were doing work

#84
Having worked in an insurance company this brought a pang of PTSD.

A stream of minor frustrations, just mild enough to not trigger an audible and cathartic 'f*ck', over and over and over again. The only thing missing was a mandatory health & safety quiz.

Now excuse me while I go thank the Universe that I no longer work in such a place.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

#86

This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.

One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

#87

I am upset I can't be promoted beyond "Computation Administrator" :(

I determined that the most efficient way to play this game is to ignore every task that isn't typing for character count, including never actually saving once you get to the minimum character count for the current task. As you go up in levels, the number of work units you accomplish per character goes up, and you continue accruing work units even if you do "extra credit" on one of your tasks by exceeding the minimum.…

Wow, way to game the system. Congratulations, you lose!

Re: It is as if you were doing work

#88
post #86

This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.

One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.

It's better than on Windows but it still happens to me, especially with update alerts.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

#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 rework completely later.

I complained about daily reporting and my senior said I can say I could not achieve anything in a day, but I have to report. I haven't done that any time. Can anyone here advise if it's fine for me to report that.

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