If its standard in any field to start popping a warning at you if you don't move your mouse for an entire minute, then that is a bigger problem than anything.
Even from a full "employer is god, you best never take a moment for yourself" mindset, that's just going to create carpal tunnel and other repetitive motion injuries and drown productivity by trying to squeeze atoms of gold from a rock.
10 minutes or higher I could see, that's 95% of the time slacking happening. Even 5 could be arguable. But one singular minute where you can't even rub your eye, cough and take a drink, or any other numerous little relaxations that keeps a man sane is beyond retarded.
The stuff in op is The kind of management you see when an office has a history of not being productive. The first thing good management would have tried is results-based metrics. " I don't care how or when you get your work done, so long as you get it done, it gets done right, and it gets done legally". This works for good teams and motivated workers, but hardly works for soul sucking jobs. When results based metrics don't work, they resort to this kind of stuff because otherwise nothing gets done.
I must be off because I've had plenty of jobs and actually liked all but one of them. Made friends. Sometimes hooked up with female coworkers. Learned cool stuff. Had some cool experiences. Definitely got some cool stories to tell. Maybe people are just have bad attitudes. Either that or I'm just extraordinarily lucky.
I was military, US Navy, so yea, I did, but not because of any of this stuff, this is pretty standard stuff, mostly.
I never had a work laptop, but I did have a desk with a desktop on it, that I logged into with a login/password. No mouse jiggle timer, that is retarded.
Work hours were set, and even a minute late could result in paperwork, depending on supervisor.
Only thing out of that list that stands out to me is the auto-locking door, that is a definite fire hazard.
Everything else seems, to me, to be standard work stuff.
If its standard in any field to start popping a warning at you if you don't move your mouse for an entire minute, then that is a bigger problem than anything.
Even from a full "employer is god, you best never take a moment for yourself" mindset, that's just going to create carpal tunnel and other repetitive motion injuries and drown productivity by trying to squeeze atoms of gold from a rock.
10 minutes or higher I could see, that's 95% of the time slacking happening. Even 5 could be arguable. But one singular minute where you can't even rub your eye, cough and take a drink, or any other numerous little relaxations that keeps a man sane is beyond retarded.
Agreed. Likely means the whole thing is fake.
Guessing this was written by a woman and this is actually her fantasy.
The stuff in op is The kind of management you see when an office has a history of not being productive. The first thing good management would have tried is results-based metrics. " I don't care how or when you get your work done, so long as you get it done, it gets done right, and it gets done legally". This works for good teams and motivated workers, but hardly works for soul sucking jobs. When results based metrics don't work, they resort to this kind of stuff because otherwise nothing gets done.
I must be off because I've had plenty of jobs and actually liked all but one of them. Made friends. Sometimes hooked up with female coworkers. Learned cool stuff. Had some cool experiences. Definitely got some cool stories to tell. Maybe people are just have bad attitudes. Either that or I'm just extraordinarily lucky.
You've had the pleasure of working with good teams. Heck, you are probably one of the reasons all your teams were good.
I was military, US Navy, so yea, I did, but not because of any of this stuff, this is pretty standard stuff, mostly.
I never had a work laptop, but I did have a desk with a desktop on it, that I logged into with a login/password. No mouse jiggle timer, that is retarded.
Work hours were set, and even a minute late could result in paperwork, depending on supervisor.
No locked doors for meetings.
No 15 day notice, you couldn't quit. :)