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See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor...

We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.

I feel that it's easier just to have clear tasks with deadlines, using decent project management software like say Asana, Monday, or whatever.

If they're meeting the deadlines and the work is good, why bother wasting time being big bro and treating them like a child? Why not just go by results? (you can check commits as well, and CI not going off will at least tell you nothing is broken)

If you work in an environment where you're expected to be busy at all times even without much to do - well.. things like this come in handy.

I agree. I'm just questioning the management logic of being "expected to be busy at all times even without much to do". I remember some papers linking boredom and leisure activity with creativity. Creativity is important for programming.

I'm expected to appear busy ;-)

Once had a well paying job that I kind of got tired of not having much to do (long story: tried to quit, offered to be available on contract basis, nope they gave me awesome retention bonus, was asked to just stick around until company does X Y Z). Anyway I came in late, took 2 hour lunch, left early. Still was tired of being bored and was all caught up on YouTube. Got to the point I just told boss I’m not playing this pretend work game anymore, in fact I’m not even going to check my email anymore, call me when you need something from me. I did about 2-4 hours of work per month for several months. Picked up another job, eventually the company had done XYZ and they paid me retention and a 12 month severance. Never understood any of it, but didn’t complain.

Oh god not Asana.

Curious. Why don't you like Asana? What do you prefer instead?

Or, realize how much work you actually need the worker to do, and stop insisting on 40+ hour work weeks. Pay them for the work they are doing, not their hours. That's what salary positions are SUPPOSED to exist for. If they complete their tasks quickly, then let them go home.

That's me in 2003 connecting to the university Unix servers and using command line ICQ and IRC clients during work hours.

Yup!

Now I use RDP to do the same with telegram (there is no not-shitty CLI telegram client)

I remember back in the day surfing the web in links (and later w3m) over an ssh connection in putty

Oh yeah...or eww within Emacs works like a charm as well :)

The ssh connection had the bonus attribute of being a secure channel to a server I owned and not subject to logging.

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