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Years before COVID or WFH was a thing, I knew a guy at work who played some MMO literally all day. He was also the main sysadmin and always got all of his work
by matwood 2y ago
Years before COVID or WFH was a thing, I knew a guy at work who played some MMO literally all day. He was also the main sysadmin and always got all of his work done on time.
But yes, people can slack off anywhere. 'Butts in seats' is one of the laziest metrics for management to use for 'working'.
- grandempire 2y ago“I know a guy who slacked off in the office”, is not evidence that it’s better or worse.
- snozolli 2y agoI remember reading about SysAdmins who wrote mods for MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons, like a text-based MMO) to give them system status notifications in-game. For example, "a pigeon arrives with a note: Server 3 is down". Plenty of jobs are intermittently high-demand and high-stakes while leaving a ton of free time throughout the day.
- matwood 2y agoI knew a sysadmin at a different job who did that. And since MUDs were text, many in the office at the time had no idea what was on his screen. And to your point about high-demand/high-stakes, at the same job as the MUD guy there was an old guy. He would leave before lunch go play tennis, nap under his desk in his cube, etc... I asked one of the other young people one day (I was still in college), what the old guy did. Apparently he was the only one who knew how to code a certain system, and he was only there to do that job when the system needed a change or had a problem.
- dumbledoren 2y ago> He was also the main sysadmin and always got all of his work done on time. I fail to see the problem there...