Business: Work Break
Typing while not typing   (+6, -1)  [vote for, against]
Play sounds on your computer of somebody typing.

And thus it sounds like you are typing lots while actually you're just sitting back and relaxing. Your boss will never know the difference.

Just be careful to pick a typing sound to suit your usual typing speed.
-- gardnose, May 18 2001

"Johnson, I thought I'd drop by to see what you've been working on so hard over here. You know, you're an inspir... Johnson? Wake UP, Johnson!"
-- centauri, May 18 2001


I read about this in a murder-mystery novel once, it was just the typing sound though. It was a bad book anyway.
-- salmon, May 18 2001


Couple this with a proximity sensor and a screensaver that makes it look like you've recently left your desk halfway through a piece of work and you don't need to turn up to work at all.

You'd just need something to get rid of the post-it notes that would accumulate.

"Automatic post-it note retrieval and and destruction mechanism", anyone?
-- st3f, May 18 2001


[salmon]: The novel may have been 'The Satan Bug' by Alistair Maclean, wherein the bad guy used a tape recording of himself typing in his hotel room to establish an alibi.
-- angel, May 19 2001


A particular trend with some of the old DOS games used to be a "Boss screen" -- by which you could press a key combination (ctrl-B usually) and the game would immediately be replaced with a spreadsheet, graph chart, or something simarly "work related."

This can obviously just be Ctrl-tab now that we have the joy of multitasking.
-- nhyatt, Jan 21 2002


I have a Muck client that shows in the taskbar as 'notepad' if you set the boss setting...
-- StarChaser, Jan 21 2002



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