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Question for active forumers...

FortheloveofKrist
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What tactics do you use to hide that you are reading and posting on the forums while at work?

I have two screens, so I use the screen passers by cannot see because of how it's angled. Alt-Tab also comes in handy.
  • Lightninvash
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    I just use the forums at work if someone sees what will they say really? like is all your work done? lol

    if I have time to forum it means there is nothing else to do.
  • iam117
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    i dont. i usually have someone stroll into my area and be like: whatcha readin?
    and i usually reply with: im correcting someones invalid opinion on the interwebs via google machine.

    no one really cares what happens at my work as long as everyone shite gets done.

    Edit: Some days i even log into eso/diablo3/starcraft2 and play some!
    Edited by iam117 on August 31, 2016 7:33PM
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    #HomeOfficeMasterRace
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  • Graydon
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    I sit in the stall for hours browsing the forums on my iPhone.
  • ZOS_DaryaK
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    When I get caught perusing the forums at work, my boss tells me I'm doing a great job! :P
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  • Reverb
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    Private office, nobody has any idea what I'm doing at any time. As long as my work gets done (and it does), I don't think anybody really cares.
    Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
  • FortheloveofKrist
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    ZOS_DaryaK wrote: »
    When I get caught perusing the forums at work, my boss tells me I'm doing a great job! :P

    @ZOS_DaryaK ...I would imagine you are the only one with a job where you try to sneak in time AWAY from the forums.

  • Oakmontowls_ESO
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    ZOS_DaryaK wrote: »
    When I get caught perusing the forums at work, my boss tells me I'm doing a great job! :P

    We can't all have amazing jobs...
  • Dromede
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    Do it on the phone >:) They'll never know :p
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  • FortheloveofKrist
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    Graydon wrote: »
    I sit in the stall for hours browsing the forums on my iPhone.

    @Graydon

    LOL. I have done this. And I think my coworkers must assume I have IBS or I eat too many legumes.

  • Jazbay_Grape
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    Well, I would have to fire myself (and I really, really should), so I don't hide it.
  • jedtb16_ESO
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    i am retired.... i do what i want when i want.

    and silently mock all you ants scurrying about your lord and masters business.

    that last bit isn't true.... not at all no... not a bit.
  • Cazzy
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    I'm my boss so she's fine with it :tongue:
  • Nestor
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    My boss is more than 800 miles away. I also have an office with a door I can close. And, I surf on a personal laptop connected with a cable modem so the corporate network never sees what I am doing.
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    Alt tab is your friend.
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  • jedtb16_ESO
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    Nestor wrote: »
    My boss is more than 800 miles away. I also have an office with a door I can close. And, I surf on a personal laptop connected with a cable modem so the corporate network never sees what I am doing.

    perhaps revealing that fact here was.... how can i put this...... unwise?
  • Hallothiel
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    Bloody workplace blocks anything to do with gaming. Even remotely. Because it is BAD. Has no logic as allows people to stream live football....

    So have to do it on my phone surreptitiously :#
  • Robbmrp
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    Work is so slow for me right now I don't hide it at all. I also use two monitors so I can view incoming emails while browsing the forums.
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  • Loralai_907
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    I also have two screens and keep one with its back to the door of my office. I make up for my slacking at times with other times of super working lol.
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  • FortheloveofKrist
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    I also have two screens and keep one with its back to the door of my office. I make up for my slacking at times with other times of super working lol.

    Ah yes, @mommadani907 ... the balance between do-nothing and superwork. I do the same. Some days I complete my work and everyone else's, eat lunch at my desk, and never stop moving until 5pm. Other days I trudge into work and think, I don't want to be here today so I ain't doin' ***.

  • ThePaleItalian
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    I sit in the back of my office. Noone behind me but my funco pops. So here I sit.....typing this....
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  • Totalitarian
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    I can't go on forums during work. One time I tried to use my laptop to do homework, and I got yelled at.

    Not my fault that I get my work done early, and get paid by the hour, so I sit around for anywhere from 1 to 2 hours until shift is over.

    It used to be worse; they cut my hours when they found out that I'm productive, so I get paid less for the same amount and quality of work.

    One of the reasons why hourly wage sucks for a job with limited work.
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  • CapnPhoton
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    My commute consist of getting out of bed and pressing the power button on the computer. The only traffic problems are when the cat is really hungry. She is the only witness and as long as she is bribed with food, she keeps it to herself.
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  • menedhyn
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    If i'm working from home, I allow myself a peek now and again in between making a cuppa or fussing my cats. But more often than not i'm on site visits. Otherwise, i'm too busy!
    'Pure rains make sweet rivers'
  • Chew_Magna
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    I don't hide it. I'm the manager and the only one here half the time so I do what I want lol.
  • Danksta
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    I can't go on forums during work. One time I tried to use my laptop to do homework, and I got yelled at.

    Not my fault that I get my work done early, and get paid by the hour, so I sit around for anywhere from 1 to 2 hours until shift is over.

    It used to be worse; they cut my hours when they found out that I'm productive, so I get paid less for the same amount and quality of work.

    One of the reasons why hourly wage sucks for a job with limited work.

    It pays to be a slacker, guess you learned a valuable lesson.
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  • sekhem
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    I have a job where i sit around waiting for someone to need something. If I dont look busy doing stuff like this (using the computer) then they will realize they pay me to do nothing and they might cut services. So you see I need to be caught doing this...I dont know how many times I have been watching youtube videos or on the forum and someone comes by and is like "hey when you arent busy can you...?" Next step is to bring my gaming laptop in with a ps4 controller and start using remote play. ahahaha
    The Dr found that his stars had decayed. Why didn't he keep them in the fridge? lol

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    now also PC NA...I have no idea what I'm doing...
  • Danksta
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    Forums (internet in general) take a back seat to my work, so it's accepted by my manager that I read sometimes to kill time.
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  • iam117
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    sekhem wrote: »
    Next step is to bring my gaming laptop in with a ps4 controller and start using remote play. ahahaha

    our network at my work blocks gaming servers (eso/diablo etc) so i bring my macbook/ps4 controller to work and remote to play occasionally, works fine for me!
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  • Robbmrp
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    Chew_Magna wrote: »
    I don't hide it. I'm the manager and the only one here half the time so I do what I want lol.

    @Chew_Magna so you can pretty much wear what ever you want as well....

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