The poor guy got fired because Bloomberg saw a copy of Solitaire on the monitor while he was visiting his Albany office. Holy crap. This is the most frightening office policy I have ever read. Maybe except some sweatshop video from Youtube.com depicting workers sweat through the days in China.
It was only Solitaire. The guy was not even downloading viruses, not even playing online games. Essentially he doesn't give the network guys any trouble. Just some harmless good old fashioned Windows game. You got to be some good harmless guy to play Solitaire at work, period. What about smokers at work? Is Bloomberg going to fire them all? These folks spend a minute bitching about the elevator not coming up to pick them up, then spend another minute riding the elevator, then spend another 10-15 minutues puffing outside the building, then another minute bitching and waiting the elevator coming back to the office, then another minute riding the elevator back to their floor .... You multiply this amount of time spent on each smoking trip and times that by the number of smoking trips one makes, you get how much time 'wasted' during office work hours.
Getting fired for playing Solitaire is just absurd.
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it's easier to waste time by drinking massive quantities of water (like three to four cups of water) at the cooler and going to the bathroom every twenty minutess. or learn how to alt+tab with at least five other legit productivity programs running so it's easy to switch.
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The poor guy probably wasn't Windows savvy. Or he really thought playing Solatire at work is his god given right. Alt-tab is good, but I think another one is even better Windows-M. Most keyboard has that Windows key which is btw the Ctrl and Alt key, Windows-m would minimize all Windows in a pinch. And if you have the Task bar at autohide, that's even better. No one knows what you are running. That's one of the better boss keystroke.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Robert. At most, he should be warned verbally. After all, it's not a serious matter. Bloomberg is unkind and has over-reacted.
ReplyDeleteSid
like me, usually I have several mirrors on my desk to observe any person come in, then I switch off the Mon at the fastest speed, see my "Cert" in your account
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