Akula Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 I work for a strange company, but most Telco's are strange. Anyway, I have this Sr. Manager that is really, really, bad at managing people. He believes we should all just be happy we have jobs, rather than try to get anything out of our jobs like respect or career advancement. So, we have been really busy. Most companies are spending the last of the '04 budget and they are buying services left and right. This means that our already understaffed group is getting slammed with orders. So, rather than augmenting the staff with more people, it is his belief that we should just work more hours (we are salary) and that will make up for it. So to make sure we are working more than 8 hours per day he had this little application installed on our desktops. One ICON says log in, the other log out. It reports back to a central server so we can all be watched like children. So should I a. write a vb script that will log me in and then out in 8 hours, then back in after 16 hours has expired? b. start setting my system time to 0730 when I come in at 0800 and then setting to 1730 when I leave at 1700? c. log in with my system time set to 1700 and out with the time set to 0800? Just trying to illustrate a point to the pointy haired boss (Dilbert reference) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhead Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 I think you should read The Bastard Operator From Hell and come up with your own creative way to just kill your boss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinner Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 i say log in and never log, out you were there the whole time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevil Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 I'd go with A. Might be more work at first, but will pay off later on when you don't have to fiddle with time settings twice a day. smile.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest doggunracing Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Pretty sure the the login/logout would be remotely timed, not from local time. Go with A if anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akula Posted December 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 I just found the database file. It is an access database and logs the local system time not my time. So now I have to go write some scripting or a batch file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mensan Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Kill the database. Format your bosses hard drive. Take a screen shot of your bosses desktop, then delete all of his icons and make the screenshot his wallpaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trouble Maker Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Originally posted by Mensan: Kill the database. Format your bosses hard drive. Take a screen shot of your bosses desktop, then delete all of his icons and make the screenshot his wallpaper.When people don't log out of their computers at work they always get messed with. One classic is to take a snapshot of the desktop, make it the wallpaper, then take all of their icons and randomly put them into the blank spots of the wallpaper. Interview With An Honest Boss That is a flash thing on the Hallmark website, so 100% work safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akula Posted December 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 I figured out windows has a task scheduler that will run the log in/log out routine for whenever I want. So I guess I will be working saturdays and sundays from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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