White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users 333
An anonymous reader writes "Simple tricks allow one to appear to be hard at work in the office while actually forwarding calls, e-mails and instant messages to your mobile phone. One can backdate e-mails through rolling back a computer's built-in clock or use background phone noises to concoct convincing excuses not to go to work."
people have been lazy long before tech (Score:5, Interesting)
God i've thought about it myself a few times......
setting back clock does nothing (Score:4, Interesting)
Also this doesn't work if one uses webmail where one would have to reset the server's time.
NOT that I don't resolve to such trickery once in a while. Most of our boses won't read the header of a message, and only the true geek has his e-mail viewer set to e-mail source instead of the nice outlook (evolution for me) display. If your cubicle is in a public place, virtual desktops comes in handy. gaim open on desktop 1, quickly move to desktop2 with source code open when you hear footsteps... or for the windows fans, alt tab to a full screen program where you have "actual work" open...
I would be interested in what other slashdotters do, I'm sure we have some pretty original ideas.
I waste my employer's money the old fashioned way (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Marx predicted this (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:The Culture of Lying (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Liability. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Marx predicted this (Score:2, Interesting)
What does that have to do with 'today'? You make it seem like in the history of mankind, workers have been anything more than soulless drones. Let's have a look back at history:
Ancient Egypt: workers are mindless drones building Pyramids.
Ancient Rome: workers are mindless drones building aqueducts and roads.
Dark Ages: workers are mindless drones rowing boats and invading countries.
Middle Ages: workers are mindless drones tilling fields for their feudal lords.
Industrial Revolution: workers are mindless drones working in mills and down mines.
Modern Day: workers are mindless drones working in offices and shops and factories.
Nothing's changed, this isn't a 'prediction' by Marx, people have shunned work as much as possible since the dawn of time. In fact, these days the lowest rung of workers have the most stimulating work in history. Even punching numbers into a computer or writing programs is more stimulating than digging coal from seams. Stacking shelves is preferable to working in an 19th Century workhouse.
I'm sure pyramid builders did as much as possible to do as little pyramid building as possible. Nothing has changed.
Gaston Lagaffe (Score:3, Interesting)
Stealth Switch (Score:3, Interesting)
Read the owner's about page to see what he's about. It's a pretty cool idea that jives with the theme of this topic. Of course, this assumes you're at the office and not boating at the lake, but it's a tool for "stressed computer users" *snicker*
No, I'm not affliated in any way, just a happy customer.
Re:Bill Gates: Visionary (Score:2, Interesting)
This is in stark contrast to the typical Windows configuration, where any remotely compromised process grants the attacker full access to the machine. It is possible to set up limited user rights, but this breaks a great deal of software. Also, such a setup is not encouraged by the Windows installer.
Backdating the SMTP server's headers? (Score:2, Interesting)
Also, what of the possibility that an email server will just replace your date header? If this isn't a server configuration option, it should be. I haven't seen a server that does this, but I've seen NNTP servers do it, and some that also add an additional NNTP-Posting-Date header.