It does nothing but display redundant power points that we are already emailed and “flawless days” records where there’s no downgrade or whatever. Manufacturing plant. It’s an entirely meaningless metric in my department since we have 97%+ uptime annually and there’s nothing left to optimise for product changeovers.

I’m not allowed to turn it off. The glaringly bright TV must remain on at all times. I’ve already caught shit for turning it off.

Just another annoying overbearing, obnoxious idiotic idea from our Texan corpo overlords who the middle managers openly admit they fear to me unprompted. Apparently, merely questioning their unbound limitless genius is grounds for dismissal now. Fucking fascists rule me already in Canada.

That all sucks sure but it’s the fact it’s bright and not a static image, but a slideshow. Keeps catching my eye. I want to smash it to pieces and quit on the spot. That probably turns them on just thinking about it.

One more for the pile. This is one of those last straw things. I’m fast tracking my plans to go into Nursing instead. It’s a hard job too but it’ll be different misery at least and I can help people directly instead of enriching arrogant fuckwits in the USA. Can’t wait to go into debt for having the audacity to shake things up in my life. Fuck living.

Maybe I find some nonconductive grease after the heats off me in a couple months and smear a tiny bit in just the right spot and feign ignorance about why there’s no signal.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      It’s harder to get away with it when you’re a crew of two with a total of six guys to cover 24hr/365.

      On my way out the door, however…

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Maybe adjust the brightness way down?
    Or put a tinted or privacy filter on it?
    My reasoning is that I imagine they have telemetry on whether that thing is on/off which is why people grilled you for sabotaging whichever stupid metric they’re looking at?
    Or do you really have someone on-site that will report you if you don’t toast your eyeballs on the corpodrivel?

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Maybe adjust the brightness way down?

      They didn’t give us the remote. The LG they bought doesn’t have controls except for a power button.

      Or put a tinted or privacy filter on it?

      Might get away with this possibly. Good idea.

      My reasoning is that I imagine they have telemetry on whether that thing is on/off which is why people grilled you for sabotaging whichever stupid metric they’re looking at?

      Correct this is entirely over Ethernet cable and when I turned it off a corpo bootlicker who enforces this shit showed up promptly. Usually Kevin. Fuck Kevin.

      Or do you really have someone on-site that will report you if you don’t toast your eyeballs on the corpodrivel?

      More than one!

      Oh my fave part is the 30 port switch laying on angle brackets and a chunk of scrap plywood for this and a single computer. No, they are not level.

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    That all sucks sure but it’s the fact it’s bright and not a static image, but a slideshow. Keeps catching my eye.

    I know exactly what you mean by that slideshow distraction.

    With that in mind, it is interesting how you’ve developed a new workflow that requires a whiteboard or cardboard sign right next to your workspace to display your data, isn’t it? If that whiteboard/cardboard was missing you’d have to be distracted all day by that TV. However, since you’ve got this new workflow that requires that whiteboard you can’t see that TV at all from your seated position in your desk, can you? Right? RIGHT?

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      A divider isn’t really possible in this small room but i did just find and buy a replacement remote control. I see the infrared sensor is in tact so it’s a cheap experiment to dim the screen down to nothing while still technically being on.