Odds are you can just send a "null" key instead of "." And it will still work just as well without actually typing anything. I used to do the same thing to keep an application active at my old job. It was nice because even when it was active I could still use the computer like normal without stopping the script.
There used to be an app called Caffeine which, if I remember correctly, would trigger the F13 key, which is coded into the kayboard standard but rarely exists on keyboards (and hence acts as a de facto "null" key).
I thought the HR director was being especially ridiculous, because I wasn't paid by the hour. Also I had to rush to complete stuff after the meeting anyway, so there was zero chance I could have slacked off in those two days.
I always say "they're stepping over dollars to pick up pennies." Similar, but I like to point out that they're exerting extra energy and reducing profits in one fell swoop.
'Dime' is American, I'd say penny is more international. There's a saying in the UK: "penny wise, pound foolish", I'm sure there's plenty or regional variations of this in different countries.
I love this kind of justified pettiness. I am pretty petty myself, and its something that I guess is a supposed bad quality, but it can be so much fun.
Nah, where I work (and where we all work, teally) we have legitimate confidential information about our customers... that the appropriate employees can access appropriately. That's not an abnormal use case.
Definitely has something to hide, especially if he's formatting his computer every time he has a "problem". Not that data can't be recovered after a format anyway.
/r/apple could've only allowed discussions about fruit.
But instead they decided to return to normal operations - they're in the group of mods unreasonably afraid of losing their position as mods, which is honestly quite bizarre.
I understand building a community and wanting to keep at it (I moderated 3 large Brazilian subreddits) but at this point, you just want the title - because you've already lost control, trust, and quality.
I've sort of been worried about this at my new software dev position but I work at a small enough company that I think as long as I get results they don't give a single shit, but it's still in the back of my mind
I wound up installing the "Move Mouse" software to keep Microsoft Teams active. Seems to do the trick.
I used to show up as idle a lot because I have communications stuff like Teams on my (very slow, old, underpowered) work-owned laptop, and I do my actual work from my home PC. So the more I'm working, the less likely I am to show up as being active on Teams. But managers don't understand logic. They only understand a little green check next to your name. So... Move Mouse it is.
I used to do the same, with the exact piece of software, when I was a contractor for a big enterprise that didn't give me sh*t to do.
Even after asking multiple times for some assignments and integrating myself into the daily standups, manager meetings and made myself "part of the team" as much as possible, they didn't use me or my skills.
So naturally I went Eff that and just didn't care anymore. Whenever someone had an assignment for me to do, I'd get the job done in no time and go back to "busy idling"
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