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Boss Says Employees Can’t Sit Idle, Employee Writes Code To Comply

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In some positions, the boss is just concerned with getting the task done. In other jobs, the manager is so preoccupied with productivity that the staff works every second of the day, resulting in inefficiency. For example, this boss who insisted on completing an unending task and ended up being stuck with it. In this scenario, the prospect of anyone’s PC idle irritated the boss. So, of course, this employee devised a plan to make everyone happy.

1. Here’s the story of OP who got the instructions of working from an office, despite his whole team being in different countries which seemed weird to him as he preferred working from home

Font - O r/MaliciousCompliance - Posted by u/ythaf igetsuspend 23 hours ago 回224猶 e32 S 58 3 O 57 37 12 13 You can't continue working from home because you go idle in chat too often oc M As part of the plan to return to office post covid, my company has done a lot of re-designating of who can permanently work from home, who can hybrid, etc. I really wanted to work from home full time. I hate the office with a burning passion - it's distracting, it's a long commute, there's no benefit to being th

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2. There was no point in OP being designated for an 8 hour long per day office job as he did not attend a in person meeting ever

Font - Well when we thought May was going to be go back to office time they started giving out the new designations. I got designated as in office full time. It made no sense to me. I work on a team of 8 people and each of us is in a different office somewhere in the country. I've literally never been to an in person meeting or needed to do in person work in 3 years at this company. Every single other person on my team got designated to work from home. So I brought it up with my boss and asked t

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3. The company’s IT system shows you idle if you do not touch the keyboard for five minutes, and the daily work is of 3-4 hours maximum

Font - Basically we have a company wide IM system that shows you as available, idle, or in a meeting. If you don't touch your keyboard for 5 minutes you show as idle. So they've decided to use this as a measure for who is working and who isn't. The thing is, like many people in many types of jobs, I don't have shit to do for a full 8 hours every single day. The amount of work I have to do on a typical day takes 3-5 hours of actual attention. There simply isn't something to do ALL the time. My pe

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4. OP used to do his work on time due to which he showed idle on screen, the company said that;s the reason of him being called to office

Font - second. There isn't work to do that I'm neglecting or procrastinating, when something comes up I simply do it until it's done or until I can't do anymore due to waiting on someone else then stop. And I've done that method long enough that my work queue stays empty because I worked to get my queue down to the point where when something comes up I can immediately address it and be done with it. But because I have other ways to spend my time in down time instead of messing around online at m

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5. Considering the above mentioned problems, OP wrote a 6 line Powershell script and set it to work for the whole days and he never showed idle, shifted back to work from home

Font - So I wrote a 6 line powershell script that virtually inputs the period key every 4 minutes that starts running every day at 8am and stops at 5pm. So now I literally never go idle. I do the same amount of work and still read books, watch tv, and play video games on the side. But I have a shiny green check next to my name all day. Because of covid complications they eventually said no going back until after labor day. I just had a meeting with my boss and he said over this time they've noti

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6. Here’s the edit

Font - EDIT: I do not need to be told to buy a mouse jiggler for the 30th time. I'm aware of what they are. This cost me no money and achieves the same thing. Why would I pay to achieve an effect I've already achieved for free? EDIT 2: A lot of people are understandably asking for the script: $dummyshell = New-Object -com "Wscript. shell" $dummyshell.sendkeys(".")

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7. About the people’s comments, OP seemed to be really angry as he does not care what they say and calls them with bad names

Font - That's the backbone of the whole thing. There's different ways to implement it with for loops or scheduled tasks or whatever, that parts up to you, but that's all the powershell needs at it's core to accomplish this. A lot of people have pointed out that sending Insert or F13 instead of period would be better so change that up if you want. To all the people commenting that I'm a si.y employee and obviously trying to insult me over it: I wish I could make you feel just how little I care. T

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Share your thoughts on this story. Do you think it’s clever of OP to run the code and earn the benefit? Have you ever done something like that? If you did, write it down in the comments. For more entertaining stories, stay tuned with us.

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