> People didn't care. So I don't care anymore.

Yeah. Enjoy the rest of your day off. Winter's coming, maybe go hit a park for a few hours or play a new video game or something. Or take some time to learn a new skill or something. Not your fault if the company can't provide the tools to do the job, go find something better to do.

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hack1312 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Great ideas if working remote, can’t imagine busting out my Steam library in the office though.

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coldpie 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Time to bring back the Boss Button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_button :)

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worble 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then its time to break out the good old MUDs

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		Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's text UI could be mistaken for Perl at a glance https://crawl.develz.org/

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zhengyi13 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

True story:

I was working in the Techstop (40) @ Google, 2011-ish, when a nice person from PeopleOps came through and politely requested my admin powers to help them install Steam on their corp-issued Windows laptop.

I'm sorry, what?

Well see, PeopleOps was going to have an onsite intending to help recruiters better understand Engineering types, and part of the whole business was going to involve everyone firing up a copy of Portal and playing a puzzle-solving video game.

So I immediately got to it. Never heard back as to the success of the endeavor, but turns out there are circumstances where you can break out your Steam library at work.

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sleepybrett an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

we had a member of my team at a company about ~15years ago that they tried to fire for installing steam on their corporate laptop when they had sent him to another city for for what was supposed to be a week but ended up being three weeks. this was against our wishes (he didn't need to be there, there was no good reason for it, he could do all the work remotely from our office and had been doing it successfully for three months, the project was 'at risk' due to schedules but none of that was our fault at all).

I had a knockdown drag out fight with both HR and Security. I agree that it was probably better for him to have packed his own personal laptop or similar gaming device but security had shown absolutely no risk and it was clear that HR was just 'clucking to cluck'. Eventually they relented with a mealy mouthed 'warning'. The fact that he had installed steam after his stay had been extended and they couldn't show any evidence that he was playing during working hours was a hillarious, and lucky, footnote.

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esseph 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Coward! /s

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999900000999 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s a good way to get blamed and let go.

But sometimes it’s a catch 22. I’ve had numerous times where systems simply didn’t work.

I brought it to my managers attention and they didn’t care.

Then later I leave in disgust or get fired. All my fault. I should have used my magical powers to convince my manager he’s wrong while not making him feel stupid.

Ultimately if you’re on the titanic it’s easier to grab a life boat vs trying to avoid the ice berg.

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JsonDemWitOster 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't this basically https://xkcd.com/303/ but "Github is down"?

(Man, unbelievable the mileage we're getting out of this comic.)

I mean this really seriously. Maybe not a game on your computer, that's unprofessional (unless your TL/manager does it first). But

> Not your fault if the company can't provide the tools to do the job, go find something better to do.

is just Truth. What should I do in this case to best deliver value to the company, fly to SF and hand Github a ringbound volume of my changeset? Patch our corporate network so we can interface to Github via RFC 1149?

More "professional" ideas:

- read a book; a novel or TAOCP for nerdmaxxing

- play a game on your phone

- learn to draw. Draw hands!