Mouse Jiggler with Adjustable Timer

It’s simple enough to just make one too.

Your not working if it takes u more than 2 minutes to any thing

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.

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.

I’m so glad my company a) has a “nobody wants teams” stance and even recommends against it to our clients, and b) doesn’t give a fuck if I go idle for hours because they hired me to do a job and if it’s getting done they’re happy.

Micromanaging culture needs to die. Fire employees who don’t do the job and be done with it.

your job sucks

just put a spoon on your trackpad

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

I used bots for games 20 years ago, I mean it should be easy to trick mouse movement…

have your free bot fix it while you get stuff done. i’d just make mine yellow all the time. wut is teams?

Why does it matter?

• a solo freelancer

Super simple to write a script that prevents it.

I’ll go one step further and hope their both sides of their pillow are warm from fresh piss. What a totally asshole decision.

Wow we are all slaves. :( I type this between my Teams meetings.

• physical mouse “jiggler” (mine is a turntable) that isn’t connected to the work device
• physical key presser on a switch to press ESC every few seconds for when I’m pooping (this way the software shows both m n k activity)

I’ve even so far as to write a bash script that monitors the userdata folder that stores the JSON to activity and overwrite it with plausible but fake random activity data and screenshots, then name the process the same as the software so it’s virtually undetectable- logs will show “Productivity Software Name” writing to its userdata directory at the same time the actual software is writing to it.