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What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 72 points 3 years ago (61 children)

Efficient workers get more work if you're in the office. I work from home, and that allows me to work efficiently until my work is done, set up scheduled emails to go out at the time I would've otherwise been done, then do what I want until then.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I see your work doesn't have invasive programs that check idle mouse and idle keyboard behaviors.

    this is an old one but i can't help thinking, what if they installed it without my knowledge, after all, my work laptop was given to me already pre prepared by our IT department.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    There is an entire department at my work that employs thousands of moderators to review desktop screenshots of all employees every 5 minutes to make sure no one is β€œidle”.

    Makes me want to scream when I think about it.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah, they're pretty behind the times, and I'm happy for that. They gave me a work laptop, but since they didn't block me from just using my home computer instead, I just do that so that I've got an excuse if they ever bring up any strange data they might be skimming from the laptop. It's been a couple years now without any word from them about it, though, so I think I'm in the clear.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Fyi. If your IT department is remotely on top of things - they know. They just might have larger fish to fry.

    We can see all kinds of things about any devices that log on to check email, connect to the VPN, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, I figured they're aware I'm not using the laptop - I'm not on the VPN most of the time as a result. I'm still able to do all my work in my own copy of excel, though, so I'm hoping I can continue pretending I'm unaware that I'm not following the correct avenues to get my work done, at least until they force me to use the laptop.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's a double edged sword. I was very efficient, and did get more work, which got me noticed and eventually promoted out of a doing position into a leading position

    It's a nice change, the work is light, the people side of the work is easy. I have higher pay and much more free time

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