My manager didn’t trusted anyone. Had the highest turnover rate in the company. In my position they had 7 buyers within 2 and a half years. Her bosses were aware there were issues within our team, but trusted her more than even numbers on papers as she was their first employee and felt loyalty towards her after 20 years working together
One example was the section on land transport. I can’t remember the exact wording, but it said something like “we will cover the cost of flights to the nearest airport and subsequent car transport”.
HR people tend to be extremely anti employee and see ulterior motives everywhere. They essentially never even mingle with other employees. It's such an odd career to pursue.
The 40 hour work week is outdated. I could easily get away with a 32 hour work week and get all of my work done. Here I am having been doing it the hard way and actually moving my mouse cursor every 10 minutes so my laptop doesn't go to sleep.
Heh, back in my call centre days we used this neat little app called Caffeine. No installation required, just double click and stay online for the whole shift.
Like my office. We got new thinclients and someone who doesn't know how the rest works decided that these clients have to lock the user out after one minute of inactivity.
Since I very often read articles or forum posts or are in remote sessions to get shown by a user what kind of issue they encounter, I constantly get booted out. I tried caffeine and it doesn't work. So now I constantly have to tab ctrl.. It's very helpful when I'm reading...
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 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"
At the moment I open wordpad on my laptop, put a nail clippers on the keyboard with my wallet on top of it and it will keep me active in Microsoft Teams as long as I want.
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