Archive for Archive for April, 2007
Slacker notes: No PCD at my J-O-B
I spend a lot of time on the internet at work, so I am well versed in WebSense categories and what not. I know if I try to click on MSN music news that it will be blocked due to “mp3 downloads” or something similar. But today I encountered a new category. Apparently, the category [...]
Slacker tip #21 – Get yourself a jump drive
Piggybacking on tip #20, any decent slacker knows the value of a jump drive, or USB drive. Jump drives can serve a variety of purposes. As tip #20 mentioned, you can run games like solitaire from a disk or a jump drive. If you do not have internet access at your work then you can [...]
Slacker tip #20 – Solitaire can run off a CD-R
A slacker tip from a sneaky reader: I wanted to add something to the whole “lack of internet thing.” We learned long ago to put solitaire, free cell, etc. on a disk/CD to take to work. They work just as well off of CD or disk as they do on the hard drive. One of [...]
Slacker tip #19 – more on stopping your phone from ringing
There are some sneaky companies that make it diffifult for you to stop your phone from ringing. At my job, the cable that brings network and internet access plugs into the phone, then a cable runs from the phone to my computer. If I unplug the phone, I have no internet access. See how that [...]
Here’s an idea – buy your boss a dictionary
There is nothing quite as refreshing as knowing that your boss, who makes WAY more than you do, is practically illiterate. Actual sentence from the mouth of the department mgr in my meeting: “I wish we had software that would not gyrate invoices with the tax on them automatically” Gyrate, also known as generate. I [...]
Slacker tip #18 – volunteer to do the mail
Volunteering to take care of your department’s mail is one of the easiest ways to be a slacker at work. You can look like a real team player and overachiever by volunteering to do something that is not part of your job description, when in reality you are doing so because it means FIELD TRIP! [...]
