this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Unethical Life Pro Tips

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An Unethical Life Pro Tip (or ULPT) is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others and/or with questionable legality. Share your best tips you've picked up throughout your life, and learn from others!

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Keeps your status green indefinitely. As a bonus, it also keeps your device from going into sleep mode (and timing out of VPN if your company uses that).

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[–] NAS89 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a great tip; as managers, we can see the activity of direct reports, and being in long meetings with no attendees is a dead giveaway.

[–] cybersandwich 1 points 1 year ago

Meh, our Teams has been so janky lately people could get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I leave mine on Appear Away most of the time. People in my work area know they can message me anytime. People who think I'm away will not expect an immediate reply.

[–] dystop 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally did that too - as long as you don't have a micromanage-y boss!

[–] KairuByte 6 points 1 year ago

“Sorry boss, people keep nothing me for unimportant things so I set my status to “appear away” to make sure I can get my work done undisturbed!”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or just use Move Mouse. It doesn't require installation.