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And thus it sounds like you are typing lots while actually you're just sitting back and relaxing. Your boss will never know the difference.
Just be careful to pick a typing sound to suit your usual typing speed.
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"Johnson, I thought I'd drop by to see what you've been working on so hard over here. You know, you're an inspir... Johnson? Wake UP, Johnson!" |
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I read about this in a murder-mystery novel once, it was just the typing sound though. It was a bad book anyway. |
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Couple this with a proximity sensor and a screensaver that makes it look like you've recently left your desk halfway through a piece of work and you don't need to turn up to work at all. |
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You'd just need something to get rid of the post-it notes that would accumulate. |
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"Automatic post-it note retrieval and and destruction mechanism", anyone? |
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[salmon]: The novel may have been 'The Satan Bug' by Alistair Maclean, wherein the bad guy used a tape recording of himself typing in his hotel room to establish an alibi. |
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A particular trend with some of the old DOS games used to be a "Boss screen" -- by which you could press a key combination (ctrl-B usually) and the game would immediately be replaced with a spreadsheet, graph chart, or something simarly "work related." |
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This can obviously just be Ctrl-tab now that we have the joy of multitasking. |
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I have a Muck client that shows in the taskbar as 'notepad' if you set the boss setting... |
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