Employees Discover That Their Ex-Coworker Was A Genius Hacker Who Took Laziness To The Next Level
Ever met someone too smart for their own good? But not in a narcissistic ironic way? Didn’t think so. This engineer, however, is so clever, he even thought of a couple of ways to enjoy laziness in his office, a privilege people usually earn through hard work. He made it possible using his hacking skills, and the scripts he created were so good, his coworkers even decided to keep them after he quit for another company. Scroll down to learn how the mind of a problem solver operates! (Facebook cover image: Mitch Altman)
After his skills went viral, they impressed a lot of people
This isn't being lazy at all, it's being very efficient. He obviously has the tools and knowledge to automate simple things allowing him to concentrate on more difficult tasks.
THANK you. Automating repetitive tasks takes work & skill, but saves time in the long run. Nothing lazy about it.
Load More Replies...i can relate to this guy. i work in IT myself and as the only girl in my team i always feel like i have to work a bit longer and a bit harder than everyone else. so i figured ..hey.. i could write something to help me detect hwen one of the customers in the buildings has a problem with something. so i did. now everytime someone has trouble i get a small message and head on my way. sometimes i even arrive just seconds after they officially asked for help.
If you are any kind of computer geek, you'd get it. There are many times that I'm down at my husbands work and a coworker will come in with a problem. After 10 minutes of what I can only describe as gibberish, the co-worker leaves. Then he'll look at me and explain in layman's terms what they were talking about. As far as the article, the guy basically programmed his computer to send automated replies by scanning for key words, to automatically tell his wife he would be late if he was still working past a certain hour, to call in sick for him if he hadn't started work by a certain time..and programmed the computer when to tell the coffee maker to kick on and make him a latte...
Load More Replies...I am much more worried about ATMs. A lot of them are still running Windows XP.
Load More Replies...There's a quote that I love, I've seen it attributed to Bill Gates but that's debatable, quote is a life motto of mine now anyway. "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." I think it fits this article perfectly
Not Bill Gates. Frank B. Gilbreth Sr has the oldest known published version of this quote and its from 1920. Many a great person has used this quote though because it's brilliant. I had the same thought while I was reading it.
Load More Replies...thanks. i once got asked if i can teleport because he (the customer) literally just sent the notification button seconds before i knocked on the office door. it secretly makes my day when people wonder how i knew there was an error without even asking for help. huehuehue...
Load More Replies...Помню как такие меня взломали хакеры , начали написывать с моей страницы моим друзьям различные сообщения, что нужна помощь срочно и тд. Выдурили таким образом более 10000 рублей у моих друзей, было очень стыдно перед ними, что не уберег страницу. После этого начал искать способы как бы это сделать и таки нашел статью про взломы ВК бесплатно https://vk-fans.ru/vk-hacking , тут очень доступно расписаны различные методы взлома, после которых очень трудно восстановить аккаунт.
I did this at a job with applescript. Certain emails came in, the script would process it for attachments and keywords in the attachment. Then It would organize all the info into spreadsheets and send out orders for equipment based on the spreadsheet. This was probably 20 percent of my job. I already worked from home and I didn't have to do anything at all on those days. The rest of my job was working in the field. But If my job was solely working from a computer, I'd be able to automate the whole thing and do nothing all day.
I saw this a few years back. there was even more tasks this guy did. He made automated scripts for everything
Reminds me the story about the service man who changed the course of a ship so he could eat his breakfast without the sun in his eyes.
If you need a good ethical hacker to help hack or recover your Instagram account to any social account you can contact pace he does all hacking and tracking job including social media hacking, device hacking, recovering lost funds, saving from blackmail, website hacks, game hacks, CCTV hacks and lot more in no time and he does a phenomenal job … you can contact him via Email : Spfhacks@gmail.com
Love it reason why because I'm in 3 magazines. And a book I started in the early 90's. I'm highly rated Google. 5 Star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on Google. And help http://Real-Hackers.com
Damn! We have a Jura Impressa X9 which does not seem to have any networking features. Lame!
Loved it. I am an IT guy myself so i can literally compare myself with this dude. Hats off to the guy
I had a boss, back when I was in Telecom/IT, who used to treat me "different" than the rest of the group. Someone finally spoke up and he replied, "Because he's able to do things that the rest of you can't." After that, I called a meeting and said to everyone, "We need to work as a team and can't put our manager under the gun and as the bad guy because we can't. What does everyone here NEED to make this job work and if we can all agree, he will agree and keep it from his bosses above." Sure enough, one guy needed flex time for traffic and so we let him come in an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier the same. One woman needed to do homework at work for night classes she was enrolled in and being that our job was a surveillance and wait kind of function, we even extended her lunch hour to 1 1/2-2 hours as 1-2pm was dead slow for our job function. As for me, I said, "Just let me surf the net to read my news with a separate browser open in the background that I can alt+tab to. :)
necessity is the mother of invention--so what if that necessity is laziness? technology is the future & the Jetson's were ahead of their time! seriously, though, this is awesome--I dabbled in programming years ago, thinking it would be a great job; sadly, I prefer more physical work, but have always admired programmers and their ingenuity.
The database backup is pretty much what everyone else with working brain does. The users can ruin it in so many creative way you just have no chance to figure it out what did they done this time and fixing it.
We don't know the circumstances and everyone is assuming a lot, it's possible the guy may have done these for fun and not because he wanted to save seconds. If he works past 9pm then i don't think seconds matter to him that much, but knowing that text is about to send could be a bit of fun and maybe he has some banter with his wife about this. If my other half did this to me, I would take it as a prank text and would probably try to get him back.
This is a VERY OLD post, I've seen it resurfice in 2015 and I've read it somewhere long before that. Someone just reposted it to reddit sounding more modern but you can feel it's old by The Prodigy reference.
The only part of this I understood was the coffee machine! Too many acronyms!
This may as well have been written in Greek for us non-engineers. I have no clue what they are saying.
why? we don't know anything of the context. maybe it was just something fun and his wife knew ? maybe he was just an a*****e who didn't other to "waste" 10 seconds to send her a mail. who knows? well.. neither you nor me.
Load More Replies...This isn't being lazy at all, it's being very efficient. He obviously has the tools and knowledge to automate simple things allowing him to concentrate on more difficult tasks.
THANK you. Automating repetitive tasks takes work & skill, but saves time in the long run. Nothing lazy about it.
Load More Replies...i can relate to this guy. i work in IT myself and as the only girl in my team i always feel like i have to work a bit longer and a bit harder than everyone else. so i figured ..hey.. i could write something to help me detect hwen one of the customers in the buildings has a problem with something. so i did. now everytime someone has trouble i get a small message and head on my way. sometimes i even arrive just seconds after they officially asked for help.
If you are any kind of computer geek, you'd get it. There are many times that I'm down at my husbands work and a coworker will come in with a problem. After 10 minutes of what I can only describe as gibberish, the co-worker leaves. Then he'll look at me and explain in layman's terms what they were talking about. As far as the article, the guy basically programmed his computer to send automated replies by scanning for key words, to automatically tell his wife he would be late if he was still working past a certain hour, to call in sick for him if he hadn't started work by a certain time..and programmed the computer when to tell the coffee maker to kick on and make him a latte...
Load More Replies...I am much more worried about ATMs. A lot of them are still running Windows XP.
Load More Replies...There's a quote that I love, I've seen it attributed to Bill Gates but that's debatable, quote is a life motto of mine now anyway. "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." I think it fits this article perfectly
Not Bill Gates. Frank B. Gilbreth Sr has the oldest known published version of this quote and its from 1920. Many a great person has used this quote though because it's brilliant. I had the same thought while I was reading it.
Load More Replies...thanks. i once got asked if i can teleport because he (the customer) literally just sent the notification button seconds before i knocked on the office door. it secretly makes my day when people wonder how i knew there was an error without even asking for help. huehuehue...
Load More Replies...Помню как такие меня взломали хакеры , начали написывать с моей страницы моим друзьям различные сообщения, что нужна помощь срочно и тд. Выдурили таким образом более 10000 рублей у моих друзей, было очень стыдно перед ними, что не уберег страницу. После этого начал искать способы как бы это сделать и таки нашел статью про взломы ВК бесплатно https://vk-fans.ru/vk-hacking , тут очень доступно расписаны различные методы взлома, после которых очень трудно восстановить аккаунт.
I did this at a job with applescript. Certain emails came in, the script would process it for attachments and keywords in the attachment. Then It would organize all the info into spreadsheets and send out orders for equipment based on the spreadsheet. This was probably 20 percent of my job. I already worked from home and I didn't have to do anything at all on those days. The rest of my job was working in the field. But If my job was solely working from a computer, I'd be able to automate the whole thing and do nothing all day.
I saw this a few years back. there was even more tasks this guy did. He made automated scripts for everything
Reminds me the story about the service man who changed the course of a ship so he could eat his breakfast without the sun in his eyes.
If you need a good ethical hacker to help hack or recover your Instagram account to any social account you can contact pace he does all hacking and tracking job including social media hacking, device hacking, recovering lost funds, saving from blackmail, website hacks, game hacks, CCTV hacks and lot more in no time and he does a phenomenal job … you can contact him via Email : Spfhacks@gmail.com
Love it reason why because I'm in 3 magazines. And a book I started in the early 90's. I'm highly rated Google. 5 Star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on Google. And help http://Real-Hackers.com
Damn! We have a Jura Impressa X9 which does not seem to have any networking features. Lame!
Loved it. I am an IT guy myself so i can literally compare myself with this dude. Hats off to the guy
I had a boss, back when I was in Telecom/IT, who used to treat me "different" than the rest of the group. Someone finally spoke up and he replied, "Because he's able to do things that the rest of you can't." After that, I called a meeting and said to everyone, "We need to work as a team and can't put our manager under the gun and as the bad guy because we can't. What does everyone here NEED to make this job work and if we can all agree, he will agree and keep it from his bosses above." Sure enough, one guy needed flex time for traffic and so we let him come in an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier the same. One woman needed to do homework at work for night classes she was enrolled in and being that our job was a surveillance and wait kind of function, we even extended her lunch hour to 1 1/2-2 hours as 1-2pm was dead slow for our job function. As for me, I said, "Just let me surf the net to read my news with a separate browser open in the background that I can alt+tab to. :)
necessity is the mother of invention--so what if that necessity is laziness? technology is the future & the Jetson's were ahead of their time! seriously, though, this is awesome--I dabbled in programming years ago, thinking it would be a great job; sadly, I prefer more physical work, but have always admired programmers and their ingenuity.
The database backup is pretty much what everyone else with working brain does. The users can ruin it in so many creative way you just have no chance to figure it out what did they done this time and fixing it.
We don't know the circumstances and everyone is assuming a lot, it's possible the guy may have done these for fun and not because he wanted to save seconds. If he works past 9pm then i don't think seconds matter to him that much, but knowing that text is about to send could be a bit of fun and maybe he has some banter with his wife about this. If my other half did this to me, I would take it as a prank text and would probably try to get him back.
This is a VERY OLD post, I've seen it resurfice in 2015 and I've read it somewhere long before that. Someone just reposted it to reddit sounding more modern but you can feel it's old by The Prodigy reference.
The only part of this I understood was the coffee machine! Too many acronyms!
This may as well have been written in Greek for us non-engineers. I have no clue what they are saying.
why? we don't know anything of the context. maybe it was just something fun and his wife knew ? maybe he was just an a*****e who didn't other to "waste" 10 seconds to send her a mail. who knows? well.. neither you nor me.
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