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How do you kill time at work? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I frequently have all of my work completed, and I am unfortunately not allowed to work from home. This means I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk scrolling social media, because there’s nothing that needs done. I feel like I’m wasting my time, even more than work already wasted the best hours of the day. How do you fill that downtime with something that is personally valuable, but not disruptive or noticeable enough that you’d get in trouble?

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

I was lucky enough to be able to keep working from home after the quarantines of 2020, but when I used to be in the office, I'd find a YouTube video, make it full screen, then on a second monitor I'd click and drag another window on top of it to obscure it. Then I'd hover over the taskbar to bring up the preview, and watch the video on that.

If anyone was passing by, I'd just have to move my mouse to get rid of the preview, and it looked like I was looking at important business stuff. Even if I didn't realize someone was getting close, the preview is pretty small, so they never noticed it, though it helped that I worked in an office full of computer-illiterate people.

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