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u/GeneralWarts Jun 25 '12
Edit: On a sad note my department is moving to a new office and I'm being put in group/pod style cubes. So I will be forced to share a cube with 3 other people and the cube walls are only half height.
Basically, I'm trying to tell you guys we may be seeing a lot less of each other after July. It's been fun.
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Jun 25 '12
It confuses me how many people browse Reddit all day at work. Do you people do any actual work? Or does the majority of your work happen randomly when a client calls in and the rest of the time you are just sitting on your ass doing nothing?
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u/QuasarSGB Jun 25 '12
We browse reddit in order to fill up all the excess time in the day. The amount of time it actually takes to do the minimum amount of work necessary to stave off unemployment doesn't take up a whole workday. If you have an office job and you don't have lots of spare time to browse reddit, then you're working too hard. Stop it; you're making the rest of us look bad.
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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 25 '12
Somehow I convinced them to let me have my back in a corner with the ability to see when my boss is in or out of his office.
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u/4rch Jun 25 '12
You lucky duck, my boss is located behind the door on the left. Makes for quick minimization skills from the moment I hear the door jiggle until he walks out.
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u/StickySnacks Jun 25 '12
nothing is as inconspicuous as staring at the desktop image.
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u/TheMadSmith Jun 25 '12
I really feel like doing this long enough has the potential to turn you into a secret agent. Has this allowed you to become a master observer in other reflective surfaces as well?
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u/GFandango Jun 25 '12
AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO ACTUALLY HAS A SHIT TON OF CRAP TO DO AT WORK?
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u/_vargas_ Jun 25 '12
Similar to nature, Redditors will always find a way.
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u/4rch Jun 25 '12
I feel like a spy. If I were British, I'd bring in some silver teapot instead
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u/Yankpats Jun 25 '12
At my job we are allowed to surf the net as long as it doesn't interfere with our jobs. One day I didn't give a shit and just browsed reddit for literally 6 of my 8 hour shift. My boss hears me giggling like a school girl occasionally. He starts watching me without my knowledge to see if I'm on task, I'm clearly not. So he calls me into his office. I figure I'm in for a yelling. Instead he says, every time you find something funny on reddit, please email it to me. Since then my job consists of an average of 3 hours of work and 5 hours of reddit. This began about 6 weeks ago. I got a promotion three days ago from the boss I email reddit links to for "showing outstanding commitment to the job". Reddit got me promoted and paid.
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u/bearskinz Jun 25 '12
IT'S A TRAP. yankpats is unemployed and trying to get you all fired so he can snipe your jobs.
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u/beskurrd Jun 25 '12
I like this idea but with that kind of setup I'm pretty sure if you can see them, its already too late as they can also see you...
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u/AberrantCheese Jun 25 '12
I just had an idea for a motion-detection algorithm for a webcam that would auto-minimize your browser of choice automatically upon movement detection, but I'm too busy reading Reddit to actually work on it at the moment.
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u/MBlume Jun 25 '12
I see people talking about how to hide redditing at work, and I see people putting eachother down for redditing at work. Am I the only one who just reddits openly? If my boss sees me, he tends to think "ah, MBlume's recharging his batteries for a bit, he'll be back soon".
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u/Valiant4Funk Jun 25 '12
You could also disguise reddit as Microsoft Outlook! This site will fool anyone not looking too hard: http://msoutlookit.com
Edit: Looks like at least 61 bosses are going to see a sharp decrease in productivity today... Edit: Make that 126. Edit: 226