• wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Boss on Teams: Why are you off-line?

    Me: I’m not. I’m talking to you.

    Boss: Oh…

    My cares about tracking vanished in that moment.

    • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Apparently a spoon left on your laptop trackpad can trick Teams into thinking you’re still there and never marking you as “away”.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Ah, I just tend to put my mouse upside down as the LED lighting in my room cause the mouse to move erratically.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Lol, I got one of those cheap mouse wigglers (mini usb plug, shows up as a Bluetooth mouse) when I could have used a spoon 😁, I’d actually pay good money for one that only wiggles every now and then and not twice a second though.

        • UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.auEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Buy a WeVibe and control it from your phone! As a bonus, after you’re done fucking your boss’s exploitation of your labor, you can fuck yourself!

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    For me teams fails to track activity outside the chromium window because I haven’t enabled the permission for the web app to see activity outside teams…

    This causes me to go “away” when I’m not actively using teams, but honestly don’t care enough. People still write to me and I answer when I got time

    • TheHive@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I don’t want to install it, so when I accidentally close the browser tab, it’s just silence for me. Really started to embrace the focus time I get from that.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Afaik Teams user activity went AI at the end of last year.

    Also

    xdotool mousemove $(echo $(( ${RANDOM} % 800 ))) $(echo $(( ${RANDOM} % 600 )))

    • python@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I don’t like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off.
      There’s a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that’s unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer.

    • Vupware@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      If you understandably don’t want to tamper with scripts or installations on your work computer, pull up your own chat, as if you were going to send yourself a message, then select the text box, then put something heavy on your down arrow key. Congrats, you’re now indefinitely free.