# Awesome! SDMB cost me my job today! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 9, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396 "2001-10-09T20:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/21 "2001-10-10T12:58:24Z")
Well… apparently, they need me to finish out the week! :mad: “Oh, you don’t want me to work here anymore? OK! Wow, I don’t care about anythi-- Wha??” “Ummm, we need you to stay at least a week or so longer because we need someone to replace you.” “So, you expect me to actually ‘work’ during this week?” It’s weird, I am in a kinda limbo. I don’t want to be here, “they” don’t want me here. Yet, here I am, sitting at this stupid desk and they’re paying me! Well, I guess they can’t bitch if I am on SDMB! (not that they know that SDMB is the cause of my slack) so now it is a “post all day, do no work” kinda world! [sub]I wish I was at home in my nice comfy chair, naked, surfin’ the SDMB and eating pumpkin pie… :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/22 "2001-10-10T13:35:38Z")
> [@](#): > > so now it is a “post all day, do no work” kinda world! Of which world, I am the King. Hell, I’m so good at slacking off, they still think they WANT me here. I keep getting raises!!! I get PAID FOR DOPING!!! YAY!!! WHHHHHHEEEEEEE!!! Count me in on the Grand alt-tab showdown. I got skills . . . DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/23 "2001-10-10T13:56:21Z")
My work area is a carefully arranged shrine to Doping. My monitor is slightly oriented away from the door to my office…not conspicuously, however. The rest of the vista is blocked by the monitor to my rapidly-becoming-defunct-except-as-somewhere-to-put-my-post-it-notes Sparc Unix workstation. My fingers rest oh-so-subtly on the ALT-TAB keys, and I’ve undergone hours and hours of voluntary self-training in instantaneously clicking on the “show desktop” toolbar icon. My “game” is so far advanced compared to you poor amateurs. See, you really have to have a multilateral approach to Doping. That’s what separates the elite from the dilettante. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/24 "2001-10-10T14:02:53Z")
I didn’t get “caught” on SDMB, I just stoped working… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/25 "2001-10-10T14:30:10Z")
So, lemmegetthisstraight. I’m the only one here who actualy likes his job? ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/26 "2001-10-10T17:52:57Z")
My coworkers are getting concerned about this strange cough I’ve developed. It’s the one I use to keep from laughing like a maniac while reading the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/27 "2001-10-10T17:54:42Z")
I put the 'net up. I can take it down. If you want to keep me from posting on the boards at work, you better damn well bring kryptonite. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThunderBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThunderBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThunderBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/28 "2001-10-10T23:52:42Z")
Whenever I walk into someone’s office, and see them alt-tab, I know exactly what they’re up to. This is much better: Use the **windows-M** combination. (windows is beside the alt key on newer keyboards). This **M** inimizes all windows on the screen. Important: Be obvious about it. Use both keys on the far RIGHT of the keyboard, not on the left where the Alt-Tab is. Don’t rush, or else they’ll know. You see, everyone knows the Alt-Tab trick. So when you **Windows-M** , they think you’re just clearing your screen. Oh, and you don’t have the problem of alt-tabbing to another IE session (lessie… I have 10 IE sessions open now, one file explorer, and my e-mail.) Thus ends TB’s tip of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/29 "2001-10-11T00:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ogre \* > **My fingers rest oh-so-subtly on the ALT-TAB keys, and I’ve undergone hours and hours of voluntary self-training in instantaneously clicking on the “show desktop” toolbar icon.** Ah, I can only dream of that. Windows NT 4.0 doesn’t HAVE that button, dammit, and I want it! On the other hand, I do have the task bar set to “disappear automatically”. I did that right after my boss peered over my shoulder, some two years ago. I ALT-Tabbed away quickly enough, but the task bar still said [Shaving Pubic Hair](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16264). Thanks **Louie** , you goddamn bastard! 😃 **puk** : I love my job, and I actually spend very little work time Doping, believe it or not. But it does happen, and a man needs to be prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/30 "2001-10-11T02:38:29Z")
Just another push for the windows-m combo. It works in Win2000, but I dunno about NT. I think it does work. And it does the same thing as that little show desktop icon that **Coldy** is lacking. I use it at work. I will frequently have 15-20 SDMB windows up, and then boss comes over… Of course, they don’t mind me surfing the net. I’m a tech support person - when no one has a problem, I don’t have to work! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/31 "2001-10-11T03:39:14Z")
windows-m, eh? Clever. Very Clever. At last, a worthy adversary. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/32 "2001-10-11T03:54:20Z")
Sometime I should compute how many hours I spent Doping while I was still employed. I’d guess in the upper hundreds. Heh. The SDMB financed my truck. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/33 "2001-10-11T04:05:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Myrnalene \* > \*\*This is why I’m reluctantly glad that I **don’t** have internet access at work. There I would be, up to my waist in the Straight Dope, drinking it by the gallon, rubbing it all over my face in such a state of distracted bliss that I would completely forget about the stuff they pay me for. Ahh, **Çyrin**. There but for the grace of cheap-ass administrators go I. \*\* Please for the love of God tell me you’re a woman, because with the image I have of you standing immersed, drinking and “rubbing it all over your face”… well if you were man that would just be sooo wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/34 "2001-10-11T05:44:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dalovindj \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > so now it is a “post all day, do no work” kinda world! > > Of which world, I am the King. Hell, I’m so good at slacking off, they still think they WANT me here. I keep getting raises!!! I get PAID FOR DOPING!!! YAY!!! WHHHHHHEEEEEEE!!! > > Count me in on the Grand alt-tab showdown. I got skills . . . > > DaLovin’ Dj \*\* King? Hah. I’ll give you a plot of land somewhere in my kingdom, okay? At my job, I kept getting raises **and promotions** not only for doping for hours at a time, but for playing **Worms Armageddon** , **Bejeweled** , and **Grand Theft Auto 2** in between doping sessions. As for alt-tabbing, I dub thee amateurs. The middle mouse button is _my_ minimize. Don’t nobody notice that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cyrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cyrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/35 "2001-10-11T17:04:26Z")
I am still at this DUMB job! I swear, if they thought my work was slack when it was just SDMB taking up my time… Now they tell me they don’t need me here anymore, but could you work a few weeks longer? DUH! YOU NEED ME, but you don’t want me, so I can STILL do nothing and get paid AND look for a new Job! It’s Win Win WIN! Oh and the SDMB is STILL taking up 75% of my time! 😃 WIN! 🆒 Çyrin 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/36 "2001-10-12T01:33:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Myrnalene \* > > \*\*This is why I’m reluctantly glad that I **don’t** have internet access at work. There I would be, up to my waist in the Straight Dope, drinking it by the gallon, rubbing it all over my face in such a state of distracted bliss that I would completely forget about the stuff they pay me for. Ahh, **Çyrin**. There but for the grace of cheap-ass administrators go I. \*\* > > Please for the love of God tell me you’re a woman, because with the image I have of you standing immersed, drinking and “rubbing it all over your face”… well if you were man that would just be sooo wrong. \*\* Hmmmmmm…since I have you invoking God maybe I should leave you in suspense… Nah, I’m a chick. S’allright. ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/37 "2001-10-12T07:09:16Z")
> [@](#): > > **puk** : I love my job, and I actually spend very little work time Doping, believe it or not. But it does happen, and a man needs to be prepared. so, where do you find the time to mod? I mean honestly, being a mod should cost you several hours a day in my estimation. me, I just surf on the boss’s time. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/38 "2001-10-12T11:05:04Z")
I can get to it from work, but I have to forceably restrain myself. I’m a schoolteacher, see, and I worry what will happen if some admin gets curious and starts looking at my histories. What’s really in Caligula… gay porn actors… giving marijuana brownies to schoolchildren… that could be a problem with the school board, I can’t imagine why. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/39 "2001-10-12T22:05:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by puk \* > **so, where do you find the time to mod? > I mean honestly, being a mod should cost you several hours a day in my estimation.** I’d say between 1.5 and 2 hours, if I restrict myself to reading my own forum alone. Obviously, I don’t. 😉 I usually mod in the evening, and early night. I’m blessed to require so little sleep, I guess. And yeah, I do read the boards at work every now and then, but it’s becoming increasingly rare. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396/40 "2001-10-13T00:59:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*I have the quickest alt-tab hands in the west. > > The problem with that, of course, is sometimes my previous window is also not very work-related. It’s even more embarrassing to alt-tab out of the SDMB, only to pop up my fantasy football scores, with executive staff peering over my shoulder… \*\* Alt-tab, huh? I didn’t know that, and I’ve been a programmer for 15 years? ::hangs head in shame:: Windows-m? Works at home, I’ll try it at work, if I have to. **Coldfire:** Damn that’s tough. Wrong page at the wrong time. So, how did the shaving turn out, if I may ask?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-sdmb-cost-me-my-job-today/86396.md?page=1)