I feel so bad right now. I'm going to go actually work.
These days, the Boss Key is probably mapped to the "minimize" keyboard shortcut.
//well, at least that how they used to do such things; a new solution may be needed in the "open plan" offices that have been trendy
I keep RDCMan open on my 2nd screen, always connected to an administrative RDP server in the production domain, usually with Perfmon pulling occasional counts of IIS users and connections from our clusters. Sometimes I'll have ADUC or DNS or DFS or WSUS or SSMS up instead.
Half of my monitoring tools and error logs, and all of my ticket systems, use web interfaces. So do Sharepoint and parts of TFS and Office365. I use Chrome and keep a dozen tabs pinned, most of which are work-related. HN and Imgur are among those.
And then there's the spattering of Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel), and Lync and other chat clients, and Notepad++ and Snip tool and Fiddler and Putty and other utilities...
It's not hard to hide anything at all.
Reddit that looks like source code. For opening in Visual Studio's built-in browser. I am not a Windows dev.
In fact, the whole thing actually looks better than some of the subreddit styles.
Seem to remember a more generic version of that from way-back-when but can't find it.
Not always. The clients net admin can't see it (encrypted VPN) and my own companies net admin would catch hell for looking at my traffic too carefully (NDAs). Everything is logged though...so people behave.
At least I'm not pretending to work anymore! Win-win.
Thinking out of the box like a boss.
What do you mean?
I now at least have a clear consciousness, if not productive output. And it is Saturday night after all. I offered him quality free beer of his choosing. He refused. I also linked him to this thread.
Nothing wrong with a few drinks, or a night out where you get plastered, but if the drinking is related to the job, please ask for help/do something.