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Carry something important looking around with you and walk like you have purpose.
This.
I've used this with many clients.
Install a fake call app on your phone and set it to ring your phone. Answer it, say "Yep, I'm on my way", grab a notepad and a pen, and stride off somewhere. Then go and play games on your phone.
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There's a story on the daily WTF from a few years back where someone had installed the Matrix screensaver. So when he wasn't working, that kicked in automatically.
It was some months before he worked out that the permies around him thought it was code compiling, so didn't like to give him more work to do.
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I arrange meetings with co-conspirators- usually in a pub where something like the Lions or Ashes is being shown & as others say - always take a notepad to make it look official
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think
There's a story on the daily WTF from a few years back where someone had installed the Matrix screensaver. So when he wasn't working, that kicked in automatically.
It was some months before he worked out that the permies around him thought it was code compiling, so didn't like to give him more work to do.
As I've mentioned before 'tail'-ing some logs on a busy server is always good to make it look like stuff is happening. Nettop is also good. Leave them running in a couple of windows and do whatever you want in another.
As I've mentioned before 'tail'-ing some logs on a busy server is always good to make it look like stuff is happening. Nettop is also good. Leave them running in a couple of windows and do whatever you want in another.
I usually have "top" running in a window as well.
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