I have teams open all day at my PC and on my work phone because that’s how I get contacted to fix things. Annoyingly domain accounts no longer log us into teams so I have to reauthentice it 3 times a week. Worse still is every few months they’ll reset the settings to default so that if I have teams open on my PC all notifications play there. My PC is always muted and I rely on my phone for notifications because I’m usually walking around the building and remoting back to the cube. So I’ll go through days where I’m pissed off because I’m not getting notifications only to remember to go check the settings on the PC to find out yup its set to only play notifications there.
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hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Batman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do get that this is the real differentiator to businesses in a chat app. how much it spies on employees. we need to unionize yesterday in tech
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
your job sucks
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love how inaccurate that status is. No one can depend on it.
randombullet@programming.dev 1 month ago
I setup a meeting with myself so that it’s always red. No green, just red, so I’m always busy.
marci@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bonus: share a 24h fireplace video to your meeting, now you’re listed as ‚presenting‘ and do not disturb activates. The 24h fireplace video will keep your device from going to standby/sleep. My trick to get actual work done.
combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Guys just open word and have something press the page down key, for example a game controller. Pc never sleeps, and you’re always green on teams/webex/whatever. Keep it simple.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 1 month ago
I once read the easiest thing is putting a spoon on your touchpad
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I downloaded jiggler on my MacBook and never looked back.
houndeyes@toast.ooo 1 month ago
I seem to remember a blank custom status being enough to stop the indicator going yellow, no mouse movements necessary. Is that no longer the case?
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unfortunately not, no.
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 month ago
No but people still set those to give the ol AOL effect of when you hover over them.
Ooh he’s got a LinkedIn Lunatic quote “So professional”
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 month ago
Super simple to write a script that prevents it.
medem@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
It is deliberate.
dan69@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your not working if it takes u more than 2 minutes to any thing
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s the fucking point wtf
raspirate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
With all these “IT can see when you connect a USB device” comments, I must ask has anyone ever actually worked for an IT department that made you micromanage/snitch on people like that? It all sounds like a bunch of hypothetical scare mongering to me. Granted, I’ve never been company IT for a fortune 500, but I’ve been outsourced IT for dozens and dozens of other companies all across the spectrum, and the notion that we were monitoring USB devices connected to each workstation is laughable. We monitor for the presence of malicious files, files with names like passwords.txt, and suspicious logins to your account. That’s pretty much it. People change mice all the time. I’ve used an arduino-based jiggler on my own work PC.
Furthermore, and this is the more important detail for myself, I’ve known many many different IT people working at every level and I don’t think I’ve ever met a single one who gives half a shit if employees aren’t being productive. Just don’t break your computer please, and if you do, for the love of God don’t try to fix it yourself. Personally, I’ve never seen any instance of any worker ever trying to circumvent arbitrary productivity metrics with easy workarounds because I’m not a fucking snitch. In IT, we also have bullshit “productivity” targets that are completely decoupled from actual productivity. We get that it’s bullshit. If there’s an IT department out there that’s full of snitches trying to catch workers slacking, that sounds like a genuinely awful place to work.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Generic USB HID Device driver on a microcontroller with commercial USB IDs and IT doesn’t see shit. Looks like an old USB mouse with no support.
TimeChild@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
We definitely do not look at any Teams activity data - SMB environment though
KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you leave the teams app open on an ios device, it will remain green no matter what you do. When I’m wfh, I just leave teams open in my iPad. I’m green all day long and it still adjusts the color to red for meetings. The main thing here is to remember to turn it off after hours. If you are still green at 10pm every day, it might look suspicious.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every single production monitoring software I’ve seen on any machine I’ve ever run had some way to make it look like 100% uptime to whoever looks, and that hack was found within a single shift.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Turns out the most effective system for monitoring production is to actually see if someone is producing what they’re supposed to in a reasonable amount of time
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well the consultant I’m paying half a million dollars says otherwise.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ok, but management is lazy, incompetent and/or suffering from imposter syndrome (rightful for some). So they don’t know what reasonable is, or what they need to produce, only need to make a number match a projection.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Mouse Jiggler with Adjustable Timer
It’s simple enough to just make one too.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
just put a spoon on your trackpad
nuko147@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used bots for games 20 years ago, I mean it should be easy to trick mouse movement…
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
have your free bot fix it while you get stuff done. i’d just make mine yellow all the time. wut is teams?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
why? I’d rather everyone knows it’s bullshit than they think it’s accurate
mlatu@moist.catsweat.com 1 month ago
here nobody uses it anyway, so i dont even log on :3
darkmogool@feddit.org 1 month ago
warm and moist…
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
🖇️ can help? same guy
Reygle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Definitely don’t go on Amazon or Ebay and buy a cheap mouse jiggler. It gets detected as a generic input device and moves the mouse cursor 1 pixel left, then right 24 hours a day. They are available for under a fiver a piece. Plug it in at day’s start and unplug it before you walk away from your pc.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s important not to plug in a USB device like that into your work PC. IT can likely see what devices are used on any system.
Instead use a physical mouse mover device that only requires power, like a USB cord plugged into a wall charger instead of the PC.
Strider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And all you need to stay at green status is a 🥄…
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
meta repost downvote this shit
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just tell them it doesn’t work on my system.