People who play at work

[cd288]

How do you do it if you play on your work computers and on your work network?

Do your employers just not monitor and/or don't give a shit?

Or do you have some way to mask the activity?

[YendorLootmonkey]

You forgot Option C: they ARE the person that monitors network traffic. :)

[indiscriminate_hater]

Option D: people who work at home
Option E: people who "work"

[Smellybuttface]

They may be epic neckbeards in the game by playing on work hours, but there's a reason they have no upward mobility in their RL jobs. Two people I know that do it have low-level jobs that don't require any real aptitude, expertise, or concentration.

[Evia]

Jealous of all you Mfers who can EQ at work. Winning IRL for sure

[Jack N]

EQ is a great game to play five minutes at a time twice an hour.

[Bigsham]

Option F You own the company and play while everyone else works, and they make snarky faces as they walk by and see you gaming all day.

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

I seperated a machine from my work network and put a wifi stick in and leech off the pub next doors free wifi. Its JUUUUST close enough that the wifi comes through my window and around my desk.

Works nicely.

[silo32]

every person I play with that "plays at work" has to afk so often its better to rep them out major of the time

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

Thats why i play Necro so i can solo and not inconvience others.

[supermonk]

They may be epic neckbeards in the game by playing on work hours, but there's a reason they have no upward mobility in their RL jobs. Two people I know that do it have low-level jobs that don't require any real aptitude, expertise, or concentration.

then there's the one guy who also plays at work, but makes a lot of moneys

[Nuggie]

Jealous of all you Mfers who can EQ at work. Winning IRL for sure

Not to mention probably happier and less stressed than the A-types that are competing to the top of the corporate ladder. Bless you all for doing what makes you happy instead of doing what someone else thinks you should do.

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

Meh i only play on quiet lunch breaks where i know im not in some super intense place in EQ. Or at christmas where theres nothing to do. Too stressful otherwise.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Shout out to all the air traffic controllers who quickly alt-tab from EQ to their radar screen whenever the supervisor walks by!

[Bigsham]

yea right lolol

[BlackBellamy]

How do you do it if you play on your work computers and on your work network?

Do your employers just not monitor and/or don't give a shit?

Or do you have some way to mask the activity?

My employer blocks all ports not strictly necessary for work. Furthermore all network activity is logged and monitored. I submitted a request for a Verizon Jetpack hotspot and a laptop purchased and delivered to me directly thus bypassing corporate inventory controls and also bloatware and monitoring software install. The reason was that "I need to mimic the customer experience using consumer-grade network access and hardware in order to be able to replicate any reported trouble conditions, without those tests being affected by any corporate network or hardware restrictions."

My employer only cares about quality work on time and I've proved I can deliver that, so when I say I need something they don't ask questions as long as the reason is coherent.

[cd288]

I seperated a machine from my work network and put a wifi stick in and leech off the pub next doors free wifi. Its JUUUUST close enough that the wifi comes through my window and around my desk.

Works nicely.

Interesting. So then you essentially have two computers and two monitors? One which is hooked up with the wifi stick to one of the monitors, and then the other which is your work hard drive and hooked up to the second monitor?

Or are you saying you play and work on the same machine and your employer just doesn't notice that you're using a machine they have no ability to monitor?

[Bigsham]

My employer blocks all ports not strictly necessary for work. Furthermore all network activity is logged and monitored. I submitted a request for a Verizon Jetpack hotspot and a laptop purchased and delivered to me directly thus bypassing corporate inventory controls and also bloatware and monitoring software install. The reason was that "I need to mimic the customer experience using consumer-grade network access and hardware in order to be able to replicate any reported trouble conditions, without those tests being affected by any corporate network or hardware restrictions."

My employer only cares about quality work on time and I've proved I can deliver that, so when I say I need something they don't ask questions as long as the reason is coherent.

till you get fired for running around norrath playing a level 32 lizard person and everyone smiles and claps as you are escorted out.

[choppedandglued]

Interesting. So then you essentially have two computers and two monitors? One which is hooked up with the wifi stick to one of the monitors, and then the other which is your work hard drive and hooked up to the second monitor?

Or are you saying you play and work on the same machine and your employer just doesn't notice that you're using a machine they have no ability to monitor?

I thought this was easy. He took a computer, prolly one nobody was using, or was forgotten, and off the books somehow, and uses that. He most likely removed whatever software made it able to connect to their intranet in order to cover his ass. It would be the same as if he took his laptop from home and played eq on it. That being said, as much as I love EQ if I was his boss I would make him formally apologize to all the staff for wasting their time with his work practices in order to keep his job.

[Izmael]

I used to play p99 at work a few years ago. Having to tab out of EQ while running invis through Kael ot even just waiting for the boat (what if you miss it because of the asshole who suddenly needs to talk to you??)... these always were intense experiences.

Not even talking about tabbing out with a charmed 50+ pet...

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

Interesting. So then you essentially have two computers and two monitors? One which is hooked up with the wifi stick to one of the monitors, and then the other which is your work hard drive and hooked up to the second monitor?

Or are you saying you play and work on the same machine and your employer just doesn't notice that you're using a machine they have no ability to monitor?

2 PC's

1 is not part of any network with wifi stick.

I only play on lunch break. I dont take the piss :D

[Cecily]

Jealous of all you Mfers who can EQ at work. Winning IRL for sure

I feel like this setting the bar too low.

[Hoppkins_Wytchfinder]

I dont see the taboo honestly. Playing a game on MY pc (which to be clear it is) on MY time (e.g. a break) with MY internet connection (when i use my tethered phone) is little different to someone playing a switch at their desk on their lunch.

It's not big deal.

[Whirled]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_fQ38ayxs

[commongood]

I dont see the taboo honestly. Playing a game on MY pc (which to be clear it is) on MY time (e.g. a break) with MY internet connection (when i use my tethered phone) is little different to someone playing a switch at their desk on their lunch.

It's not big deal.

Sure, but I get the impression from some that they aren't merely playing for 10-20 mins during a lunch break but instead playing for long periods of time because their job is not very demanding for stretches of time or because they simply find themselves within a structure where there is little to no focus on the results they create and they are able tab out whenever someone might find out.

If you are doing work that requires your concentration and you get your concentration broken, by swapping over to EverQuest and responding to a tell or having to kill that Pained Soul PH it takes time to get back to the state of concentration you were in...

Meh, with everything said and done, I think most people doing office work will procrastinate during their day. Is it worse to be spending that time in Norrath or browsing the internet looking for a new t-shirt or buying movie tickets? In the abstract I would say no but in reality I think you are much more likely to get caught up in a game like EQ and suddenly what you thought would take you 5 minutes ends up taking 25 minutes...

[Wallicker]

My boss caught me playing EQ and wanted me to farm him a fungi, instead I got him fired, took his job and his wife.

[solleks]

Does federal assistance count as work

[azeth]

Playing "at work" in 2020 probably means they work from home. I wouldn't picture an individual in their cubicle playing P99.. but rather they're in their home office on their personal computer with their work laptop next to them.

[choppedandglued]

Playing "at work" in 2020 probably means they work from home. I wouldn't picture an individual in their cubicle playing P99.. but rather they're in their home office on their personal computer with their work laptop next to them.

hell no, prolly about at least 5% of the population plays on the company dime.

[loramin]

I work from home, and while it has absolutely been great at times ... right now I'm doing a ton more work now than I ever did when I was in an office (and getting paid a small fraction: teaching /sigh).

In fact ATM I actually play EQ a lot less because I work from home.

[drj240]

I work from home on Monday's and Wednesday's. I can get quite a bit done around camping something or solo exping. /shrug