I used to do something similar when I was working in embedded systems, specifically because my superiors had no idea. I would just put our OS up to compile on repeat so one if my machines was always spitting out nonsense (but vaguely related to work).
“Sorry boss, just waiting on the new build to finish up so I can start on that.”
Used to keep a terminal sesh up that was just scrolling top on the dev server whenever I felt like being lazy while looking productive. Took my very tech savvy boss a couple months before he finally noticed.
I’m pretty sure the VP of engineering knew what I was up to, but I think he also understood that I didn’t get paid enough to be as neurotic as he was and I generally got stuff done ahead of schedule any way.
I used to do something similar when I was working in embedded systems, specifically because my superiors had no idea. I would just put our OS up to compile on repeat so one if my machines was always spitting out nonsense (but vaguely related to work).
“Sorry boss, just waiting on the new build to finish up so I can start on that.”
Used to keep a terminal sesh up that was just scrolling
topon the dev server whenever I felt like being lazy while looking productive. Took my very tech savvy boss a couple months before he finally noticed.I’m pretty sure the VP of engineering knew what I was up to, but I think he also understood that I didn’t get paid enough to be as neurotic as he was and I generally got stuff done ahead of schedule any way.