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I stand by the belief that management that needs this level of surveillance software needs to be in trouble as well. Management should have reasonable expectations and expect you to achieve them in a reasonable amount of time.
I am so happy I decided to change careers and left corporate hell to start my own business. I never have to make sure my mouse moves ever again.
What’s your plan to make it sustainable?
So far it’s done well for the past 5 years, but it is harder now to find clients because the economy sucks and everyone is struggling (I’m a psychotherapist in the US). I have to plan for periods of drought, and make sure I keep up with marketing and networking.
Honestly, in my field, once you get a good reputation, you will be OK. It’s hard starting out, and I got lucky because I started out during COVID. Tons of demand back then, and some of those clients are still with me. Now I get referrals from clients and fellow therapists because I am established.
What?
You can beat any Microsoft employee to death with a spoon.
But why a spoon?
They hit you with it. Then hit you again. And again. and again and again and again and again and again and again…
Why not?
For me teams fails to track activity outside the chromium window because I haven’t enabled the permission for the web app to see activity outside teams…
This causes me to go “away” when I’m not actively using teams, but honestly don’t care enough. People still write to me and I answer when I got time
I don’t want to install it, so when I accidentally close the browser tab, it’s just silence for me. Really started to embrace the focus time I get from that.
Afaik Teams user activity went AI at the end of last year.
Also
xdotool mousemove $(echo $(( ${RANDOM} % 800 ))) $(echo $(( ${RANDOM} % 600 )))
If you understandably don’t want to tamper with scripts or installations on your work computer, pull up your own chat, as if you were going to send yourself a message, then select the text box, then put something heavy on your down arrow key. Congrats, you’re now indefinitely free.
I don’t like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off.
There’s a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that’s unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer.Yes, Caffeine is staple, I’ve been using it for decades (under windows too)!
(Also I’ve never actually noticed my mouse move by one pixel during work.)
I’m a fan of scroll lock, not too useful but powershell is more than happy to turn it on and then back off 200ms later at random intervals… All while showing me a countdown to quitting time and a day counter until I’m out the door.
I have had a scroll lock vbscript that I have used for years that just turns it on/off every minute. This is the way.
However, we are on Windows 10 still (I assume parent company is paying for LTS) and Microslop keeps breaking teams on Win 10 so we are all using the browser version right now which shows you away if you don’t have that specific window/tab active, so it just shows everyone as away nearly 24/7, so management can’t use it as a metric at the moment and it’s fantastic.
Yeah caffeine has been around a long time. I’m sure these simple solutions won’t last much longer. They will us AI to monitor the actions are meaningful so people will use AI to make the actions look meaningful and so on…
Microslop brought AI to Copilot or even just Teams to not only monitor minutes of activity but assess how active that activity was.
Luckily something like that is highly illegal here haha
Wait, AI monitoring (that only outputs summary data) is illegal?
EU should get on that!
Or quit the fucking company come on
yeah how dare i do work by hand for a minute or go pour myself a drink on one of my paid legally mandated breaks
Context?
Apparently a spoon left on your laptop trackpad can trick Teams into thinking you’re still there and never marking you as “away”.
Ah, I just tend to put my mouse upside down as the LED lighting in my room cause the mouse to move erratically.
Lol, I got one of those cheap mouse wigglers (mini usb plug, shows up as a Bluetooth mouse) when I could have used a spoon 😁, I’d actually pay good money for one that only wiggles every now and then and not twice a second though.
Buy a WeVibe and control it from your phone! As a bonus, after you’re done fucking your boss’s exploitation of your labor, you can fuck yourself!
So can something heavy that depresses one of the directional keys.
Or at least that used to work, been a few years since I tried it.
Still works
Here you go my friend
Thanks for educating all the fork pilled people out there
How does that relate to Teams?
Your Teams doesn’t come with a spoon? You should contact customer support. Something is seriously wrong with your account.
How does it not!?
I assume you rest/wedge a spoon on your keyboard to hold down a key so Teams won’t mark you as away?
But cousin, why a spoon? Why not an axe or a knife?
Because it hurts more
Oh my god, I love spooning my team!
This isnt even a comparison. Obviously spoony boy would win.
I am voting for the spoony boy!
Looong ago I enjoyed watching “the spoony one” on YouTube
