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nexus6 posted:I understand wanting to get paid for your work and time but that just sounds like a dick move. Did you tell your neighbour? No, I didn't, I thought it'd be weird to just knock on his door and bring that up. I mean he did lose his keys and all and it made sense to change the locks, and maybe they've agreed beforehand to change the lock. It's just the way the locksmith threw it in there at the very end that felt a little fishy. But skilled labour has a weird place in our society, like everyone thinks they are way, way too expensive just because they don't have that trapping of middle class respectability, i.e. an expensive degree. I mean you can go through a thousand dollars EASILY on a few hours with a lawyer or a vet (we have socialised people medicine  ), and people accept that. But drat do people complain about plumbers, electricians and car mechanics.
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This video is somewhat about that, it's about software but probably covers other skilled jobs https://youtu.be/6h3RJhoqgK8 I think Zed Shaw has a shpiel called steaks and strippers and is also pretty good darkhand has a new favorite as of 00:44 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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zedprime posted:Lifehack: you can't be arrested for setting booby traps in your house if your booby traps kill you first. The Collyer brothers messed up, they could have gotten in trouble if the traps had been found while they were still alive, and the traps were completely unnecessary. Setting deliberate traps is illegal, but just living in dangerous squalor is not. Trapping a room with razor blades and broken glass is bad, but just never cleaning up glass that happens to break or throwing your rusty used razor blades on the floor because you are too lazy to throw them out is fine. #squalorhax
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Shanghaied posted:No, I didn't, I thought it'd be weird to just knock on his door and bring that up. I mean he did lose his keys and all and it made sense to change the locks, and maybe they've agreed beforehand to change the lock. It's just the way the locksmith threw it in there at the very end that felt a little fishy. But skilled labour has a weird place in our society, like everyone thinks they are way, way too expensive just because they don't have that trapping of middle class respectability, i.e. an expensive degree. I mean you can go through a thousand dollars EASILY on a few hours with a lawyer or a vet (we have socialised people medicine Believe me, people still complain about attorneys' fees, etc.
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Jun 17, 2016 18:48
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I have an actual life hack! Set your work computer's screen saver or power saver to be slightly longer than your lunchbreak, so if you're running late it can't betray you.
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well why not posted:I have an actual life hack! Set your work computer's screen saver or power saver to be slightly longer than your lunchbreak, so if you're running late it can't betray you. I don't understand this life hack
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Jun 21, 2016 15:09
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well why not posted:I have an actual life hack! Set your work computer's screen saver or power saver to be slightly longer than your lunchbreak, so if you're running late it can't betray you. Better lifehack is to lock your screen every time you step away and call it OPSEC. Lifehack: if your coworker leaves his screen unlocked, send an email from his account to the department saying he'll bring donuts tomorrow.
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well why not posted:I have an actual life hack! Set your work computer's screen saver or power saver to be slightly longer than your lunchbreak, so if you're running late it can't betray you. Is this the "How to get a gay porn wallpaper for your work computer" lifehack?
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Jun 21, 2016 16:12
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Take screenshot of the screen Put it as wallpaper. Delete all the desktop icons. Watch your coworker click on his wallpaper and get angry.
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Jun 21, 2016 20:43
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Pham Nuwen posted:Better lifehack is to lock your screen every time you step away and call it OPSEC. I actually do that because my office has a guy who really loves jumping on abandoned computers and looking through their files and email as part of "management duties".
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Jun 21, 2016 21:28
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I do because I work in Healthcare and I have to be HIPAA compliant. I don't understand why you wouldn't though, someone is gonna mess with your poo poo.
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Jun 21, 2016 22:56
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Seriously it takes two seconds to lock your computer, lock your goddamn computer.
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FrozenVent posted:Seriously it takes two seconds to lock your computer, lock your goddamn computer. Less than 2 seconds: Window-L
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Jun 22, 2016 00:05
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If your workmate leaves their computer unlocked then press ctl, alt, and the down key to flip their display upside down. Works best on older co-workers who will freak out that their computer is 'broken'.
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SEX BURRITO posted:If your workmate leaves their computer unlocked then press ctl, alt, and the down key to flip their display upside down. My favorite is open a DOS prompt, then full screen it and make a fake blue screen error.
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SEX BURRITO posted:If your workmate leaves their computer unlocked then press ctl, alt, and the down key to flip their display upside down. Only works on Intel video chips with Intel drivers. Just a tip.
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Pham Nuwen posted:
Literally the only good lifehack I've ever seen.
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1redflag posted:Literally the only good lifehack I've ever seen. We do this at work all the time because it's company policy to lock your screen when you leave your desk... It only takes most people one box of donuts to remember to lock their screen. Of course if there are no new hires or otherwise good targets around, we tend to resort to sneakier poo poo like convincing the mark to step out of his office while someone else quickly sends the email. Every year we have to remind the interns that installing backdoors and such on their fellow interns' computers for repeat donutting is not just a violation of common decency but also against policy.
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Lifehack: if you work in an office where it's acceptable for your coworkers to waste time harassing you like this you are either a sitcom character or you don't exist.
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Guy Mann posted:Lifehack: if you work in an office where it's acceptable for your coworkers to waste time harassing you like this you are either a sitcom character or you don't exist. Have you never worked in an office? Because I can assure that that is super minor poo poo. We had a guy who automated 90% of his job with a couple Excel macros, then basically spent the rest of the week on Yahoo Finance. For two years straight. He was the most productive guy in his department too, and management was really annoyed when he quit out of boredom.
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I once worked at a job where for for 6 months I literally did nothing. We were on a contract that specified man hours had to be filled even if there was nothing to do in them. It was like that Japanese punishment where you come into work every day and aren't allowed to work, except I didn't have internet.
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Kwyndig posted:except I didn't have internet. A fate worse than death.
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Guy Mann posted:Lifehack: if you work in an office where it's acceptable for your coworkers to waste time harassing you like this you are either a sitcom character or you don't exist. Screen-lock pranks were rampant at my old job, generally that one jpg of Hasselhoff and the puppies or declarations of love to one's team/lead/boss, but it's a video game company and poo poo like that is basically expected in an environment full of 600 nerds. We had nerf guns for a while too, totally sanctioned or at least quietly ignored by the higher-ups, right up until someone started modding them with real springs and taping pennies to the darts and poo poo, and ruined it for everyone else. Lifehack: tape pennies to nerf gun darts, add 40 hours a week to your free time (because you got fired). Walla!
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FrozenVent posted:Have you never worked in an office? Was his name Brian? Did you work in NYC?
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TheKennedys posted:Screen-lock pranks were rampant at my old job, generally that one jpg of Hasselhoff and the puppies or declarations of love to one's team/lead/boss, but it's a video game company and poo poo like that is basically expected in an environment full of 600 nerds. We had nerf guns for a while too, totally sanctioned or at least quietly ignored by the higher-ups, right up until someone started modding them with real springs and taping pennies to the darts and poo poo, and ruined it for everyone else. My old office had to put out a ban on certain kinds of nerf guns (The snipers which shoot super long distance, that crazy crossbow thing, other high-powered ones like that) because they were being fired at point-blank range and leaving marks on people. Also, people trying to do crazy "long shots" over the top of cubicle walls. One guy tried to shoot a magnum bow dart over two cubicle pods (equivalent of, I'd say, around two dozen Office Space-sized cubicles) and instead of hitting somebody, he got a dart stuck on top of a hanging fluorescent light. Nobody went looking for the dart, it just sat up there and eventually smoldered/smoked until it set off the fire suppression system in an IT company. One guy also got personally banned from using nerf guns because he would put hot glue in the Whistler dart heads to make them heavier while also shoving toothpicks on the fronts. I got shot in the arm with one of them and the dart stuck in my flesh. gently caress nerf gun office culture forever, basically
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thecluckmeme posted:One guy also got personally banned from using nerf guns because he would put hot glue in the Whistler dart heads to make them heavier while also shoving toothpicks on the fronts. I got shot in the arm with one of them and the dart stuck in my flesh. Jesus gently caress, that could've taken an eye out. How did he not get fired on the spot? Honestly, that's worth pressing charges over.
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Working in small businesses you can get away with amazing lifehack fuckery all the time. At one job I automated most of my workspace and carried around a bluetooth headset for answering calls and had a tablet to do whatever crap. I spend the rest of the time talking/drinking with the people in manufacturing.
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thecluckmeme posted:My old office had to put out a ban on certain kinds of nerf guns (The snipers which shoot super long distance, that crazy crossbow thing, other high-powered ones like that) because they were being fired at point-blank range and leaving marks on people. Also, people trying to do crazy "long shots" over the top of cubicle walls. One guy tried to shoot a magnum bow dart over two cubicle pods (equivalent of, I'd say, around two dozen Office Space-sized cubicles) and instead of hitting somebody, he got a dart stuck on top of a hanging fluorescent light. Nobody went looking for the dart, it just sat up there and eventually smoldered/smoked until it set off the fire suppression system in an IT company. One of my Nerf guns can crack glass, it's basically a small air powered canon. It has to shoot darts I make by hand because normal Nerf darts can't handle the pressure in barrel and just rupture into a mist of foam, causes pretty big bruises too. Of course that's with a very long barrel on it and stuff. Usually you're not allowed to use that kind of Nerf gun in a war, in order to use it you build what's called an Absolver, which is basically a 6-20 dart shotgun cylinder. That kind of stuff is not really that common though, most modern modded Nerf stuff is much less painful since it's generally assumed you'll be shooting other people in parks or on public land, unless you go and build your own backyard Nerf arena like some people have done.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:One of my Nerf guns can crack glass, it's basically a small air powered canon. It has to shoot darts I make by hand because normal Nerf darts can't handle the pressure in barrel and just rupture into a mist of foam, causes pretty big bruises too. Of course that's with a very long barrel on it and stuff. Usually you're not allowed to use that kind of Nerf gun in a war, in order to use it you build what's called an Absolver, which is basically a 6-20 dart shotgun cylinder. That kind of stuff is not really that common though, most modern modded Nerf stuff is much less painful since it's generally assumed you'll be shooting other people in parks or on public land, unless you go and build your own backyard Nerf arena like some people have done. Source your quotes plz
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Like paintball but much sadder
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El Estrago Bonito posted:One of my Nerf guns can crack glass, it's basically a small air powered canon. It has to shoot darts I make by hand because normal Nerf darts can't handle the pressure in barrel and just rupture into a mist of foam, causes pretty big bruises too. Of course that's with a very long barrel on it and stuff. Usually you're not allowed to use that kind of Nerf gun in a war, in order to use it you build what's called an Absolver, which is basically a 6-20 dart shotgun cylinder. That kind of stuff is not really that common though, most modern modded Nerf stuff is much less painful since it's generally assumed you'll be shooting other people in parks or on public land, unless you go and build your own backyard Nerf arena like some people have done.  the darts are toilet plugers with pool noodles on the handle
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TopHatGenius posted:Working in small businesses you can get away with amazing lifehack fuckery all the time. At one job I automated most of my workspace and carried around a bluetooth headset for answering calls and had a tablet to do whatever crap. I spend the rest of the time talking/drinking with the people in manufacturing. Depending on the size of your office, you can also take longer lunch or bathroom breaks by just telling people that you were already back but off in some corner where nobody goes doing something that sounds at least a little plausible. Or you come back late, chat with and help a guy elsewhere, and then say that you were helping them. If anyone bothers to check, your unwitting accomplice will say "Yeah, he just left" and you're in the clear. At my workplace, I usually just get my poo poo done early and spend the rest of the time creating new methods to improve other people's jobs and presenting them for use ahead of the guy pushing to become manager. I've gotten a lot of "You get an extra dollar per hour" raises that way. Lifehack: Be assertive and make more money.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Like paintball but much sadder I actually used to be very hardcore into paintball because I grew up in rural Oregon where Paintball and too a much lesser extent Airsoft is huuuuuge and in general the Nerf people are much nicer and cooler than the PB people. PB is basically a sport focused on mostly teenage to mid 20's white middle class males and so the attitude around everything is basically like spending time in an IRL Call of Duty lobby. Nerf has a much more DIY maker crowd with more responsible adults, it mostly lacks the really hardcore obnoxious Milsim geeks that Airsoft attracts as well. The price point for entry is dramatically lower as well, you can build the best possible Nerf gun for around a hundred bucks which isn't even close to the cheapest airsoft gun or paintball marker you'd want to get to start with either of those things.
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Kwyndig posted:I once worked at a job where for for 6 months I literally did nothing. We were on a contract that specified man hours had to be filled even if there was nothing to do in them. It was like that Japanese punishment where you come into work every day and aren't allowed to work, except I didn't have internet. Do they also prohibit bringing books and an ipod? Because otherwise that sounds like the best job in the world.
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It doesn't sound like a job that stays for very long though, tbf.
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Was the job something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzv4R0S7tmk
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Kwyndig posted:I once worked at a job where for for 6 months I literally did nothing. We were on a contract that specified man hours had to be filled even if there was nothing to do in them. It was like that Japanese punishment where you come into work every day and aren't allowed to work, except I didn't have internet. An oldie but a goodie fading into the mists of time https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
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iSurrender posted:Do they also prohibit bringing books and an ipod? Because otherwise that sounds like the best job in the world. No books, no ipods because of data security (I still had access to healthcare data, there was just nothing to do with it). Worst six months of my life, I took a transfer to a call center doing prior authorizations just to get the hell out. (Even though that ended up ruining my life, for all the reasons you might imagine)
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CharlieWhiskey posted:An oldie but a goodie fading into the mists of time https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ I could have easily disappeared when I worked at Thomson Reuters main campus in Eagan MN. It must be about 3+ million square feet and no-one ever knows who you are. My boss didn't even know my face, much less my name. I filled out my own time sheets that were always signed off on. None of my work was monitored, criticized, or complimented. There was a library, dozens of lounges, two restaurants, the second largest Caribou Coffee shop in the state, if not the world. Places to take a nap that no-one walked by. Showers. Secret rooms that you could hide in. A fake front desk and reception area with a door that opened onto the lawn instead of a sidewalk. The place is so big that no-one cares about anyone. No-one cares about the business itself as they don't even remember what they do. It's just 6,000 people getting coffee, whining about how busy they are, and taking off early. p.s. no-one is busy. They just wander aimlessly telling each-other how busy they are. I should have just gotten my contract and never even gone to work unless there was a meeting. What I did was pointless anyway. Life Hacked!
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