Confession time: what are some things you have occasionally done to stay online with Microsoft Teams when you are actually away?

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Got a macro from a guy that moves the selected cell in Excel every few seconds. Set the timer for how long you want to be away and it keeps you available for that long.

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If the macro isn’t too long - pls share🥺

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Hookup mouse to a rotating fan so it moves and keeps me online

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Yo what’s your RuneScape username

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I start a call with myself and share the screen (sets it to DND) when I want to nap.

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On the calendar view on teams there is a meet now option on the top right. I click that option and don’t invite anyone.

I’ll go first: i play a 10 hr YouTube video on Fridays while I play golf. Noone ever pings me on a Friday 😅

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I do the endless YouTube video trick on Fridays as well. Usually, I either sleep or go to the gym on Fridays after 2 PM.

This is the thread I didn’t know I needed

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Slightly different as this is when we're in person.

Whenever I wanted a break from the team room, I would block off my calendar, dramatically announce that I had a call I had to take, go into my pre-booked meeting room, dial in to a random quarterly earnings call, and then play tetris on my laptop.

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Still sounds terrible, but nice!

I just call in sick on a Monday or a friday. On weeks where I feel like why do I even bother with thsi company, I just don’t do anything and my projects run just fine

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I dgif and just disconnect, if they need me they can call

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Press play on a old gif. Thank me later

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Oh wow will definitely give this a try this week haha

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I just start a meeting by myself (without connecting mic device), then manually set my self as ‘available’. Simple and no need for weights on my spacebar, YouTube video, or mouse jigglers

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Create a “meeting”

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I take PTO. Use or lose it.

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I just don’t care, I’ll just do whatever I want or need to. I have my phone if something needs my attention

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Wrote a script that presses num lock every 5 seconds

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Got a dongle to do it

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Open word and put something heavy on the space bar

I use movemouse lol

...stay online? nerp. declined.

Wrote a python script that will randomly move my mouse at random intervals.

Download the app on your phone. Next.

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