El teleworking It has changed our lives so much. Not so long ago, the most daunting part of having to work was the process of getting out of bed and going to the office. Then things didn't improve either, since it was time to clock in, greet co-workers and finally get to work; the most entertaining part of the day, without a doubt. Once in the workplace, there were multiple Tricks to waste a bit of time. settle a VPN to bypass the company's filters (very useful to write for a while in the forum on duty and look at the sports press), have a couple of coffees, go to the bathroom seven times... We are all very grateful that the workers' struggle got a working day only eight hours, but... it's just that eight hours is still a lot of hours.
The pandemic arrived, but the tricks emerged
And all this, of course, was screwed up by the pandemic. Now, many workers can keep their laptop under their bed and don't even have to get up if they want to. You also don't have to get on a stinking bus with two hundred people looking like they haven't slept. Nor do you have to pass any card through any code reader. For not doing, you don't even have to greet your co-workers. But of course, what has not been lost with teleworking is the work part.
And that's when the picaresque, friends. What do you have to attend an online seminar with the webcam on? Video of my mask in a loop and to take a fifa 21 game. What is there to be connected to the company's server during the 8 hours? PC saver in high performance so that it is not suspended and another one is seen little chapter from Netflix. Teleworking? The real health.
Everything was going great until some boss began to notice these paranormal phenomena and the employee monitoring software. These programs are installed on our computers and are very varied. They have the ability to detect if we are working based on mouse movement, keystrokes, screen movements or even facial recognition. Black Mirror in real life, let's go.
A new hope
Luckily, there is a disease that affects all companies equally. They all seek to spend as little money as possible, so they also tend to use this control software for jobs. Cheap apps are only able to monitor mouse movement, but they realize the repeating patterns, so it is not so easy to cheat.
Today in late capitalism, apparently there is a whole product category of "mouse jigglers," devices that generate random movement from your mouse so your WFH surveillance software thinks you're working pic.twitter.com/Z7XlApXp4S
— Noah Veltman (@veltman) November 17, 2021
Checkmate, capitalism. Some unknown genius (who remains anonymous to preserve his physical integrity) has managed to exploit that vulnerability of our beloved economy and promises to turn teleworking upside down. The mouse jiggler is born, a device (which is already a category on Amazon) that allows you to fake the movement of the mouse so that our boss believes that we are working. Most of those who buy it will say they use it so they don't get remotely logged out of the company's server. If they tell you that excuse, please do not contradict them. Nod your head and don't ask questions, lest worse times return. The mouse jiggler? The new Luke Skywalker.