• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    why though? Were they not getting enough done? And if its only like a dozen, does it justify the productiviry loss of hiring keyboard police?

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Were they not getting enough done?

      If not then fire them for that. Seems like a better metric that’s more related to how well they do their job than “how much has your mouse moved?”

      • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world
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        Not defending them. But ill take their position for a second. I give x amount of work and expect you to finish it. And you do. But if that work takes you 2 hours and the rest of the day you do nothing it just means I can give you more work because 2 hours is just abysmal. So I wanna know about it.

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          So is my work measured by how much I move the mouse? In my job if I used an automatic mouse jiggler it would have zero effect on my employment, because I’m not being employed to move my mouse, I’m being employed to do productive work.

          It’s insane that such a program was useful. If your boss doesn’t know the difference between you working or not, and only knows how much your mouse moves, that is a shit boss who is terrible at their job.

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          Right, but if you’re paying x for y amount of work, then once y is complete and you expect y to increase, does x increase as well?

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        4 months ago

        How much the mouse moved is explicitly, pointedly NOT the metric they were fired for.

        The reason is in the headline.

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          How much work they were getting done is explicitly, pointedly NOT the metric they were fired for.

          Why would a mouse jiggler be effective for any reason unless it was a metric being measured?

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      They don’t care about productivity. They care about the appearance of control, and the revelation of subversive activity is a gross embarassment to the ego that thrives on that control.

      It’s a bully having a tantrum because his victims don’t fear him enough.