Sneaky Chrome Extension Disguises Netflix As a Google Hangout To Help You Slack Off At Work 33
Netflix Hangouts is a new Chrome extension that tries to make it easier to get away with watching Netflix while you're supposed to be working. Just go to the show you want to catch up on during work hours, and press the extension's icon in your Chrome menu to bring up a fake four-person conference call. Then you can sit back and watch the show in the window's bottom right feed while three fake colleagues get down to business. The Verge reports: The extension was developed by Mschf Internet Studios, which has produced a few internet curiosities like this over the years. There was the Slack channel that offered $1,000 in prize money for the first person to correctly guess each word of the day (it was shut down by Slack after just a week), a man who ate various foods as disgusting ice cream toppings, and who could forget Tabagotchi, the lovable virtual avatar that slowly died as you opened more and more tabs? Netflix Hangouts is the latest in a long line of services designed to let you slack off at work.
Tutti fruttis (Score:1)
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What kind of tutti frutti hipster office uses Google for real work?
Errm... for searching for technical documentation and other work related info? Unfortunately duck-duck-go is (unfortunately) still cannot find stuff as easily as google :-(
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"What kind of tutti frutti hipster office uses Google for real work?"
Pretty much every Fortune 500 company. As someone who's recently retired, and worked as a manager for the last fifteen years, I'll tell you that my peers and I were about as far from tutti frutti as you can get.
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This stresses me out (Score:2)
Just the demo image on the homepage makes me break out in cold-sweat flashbacks to endless conference calls. Sure, there's Steve Carrel in the bottom right, but watching 'The Office' gives me a little too much work-stress-related grief to really enjoy it.
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There is no greater time waster than endless meetings. If the boss believes that you should be in meetings all day and that's why google hangouts is always up, then he's got a bigger problem than your binge watching, something is broken somewhere, and chances are he was party to making it happen.
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There is no greater time waster than endless meetings.
Very true. I'm actually allowed to watch Netflix at work, and the funny thing is that I actually get more work done when I watch TV than when I am in meetings. I sometimes keep shows on in the background while I am doing certain repetitive tasks.
Seems irresponsible to encourage bad habits (Score:3)
If you feed the tendency to goof off, you'll find it increasingly hard to actually work, and eventually people around you will notice. Better to fix yourself and/or fix your job so this isn't an issue.
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When in doubt, make outrageous stuff up, and hide your name?
Netflix is probably blocked by sysadmins anyway (Score:3)
At various previous jobs I worked at, YouTube, Facebook and other such sites were all blocked by sysadmins at the firewall. That was before Netflix really was a thing but I can't imagine sysadmins in the same sort of places I worked (the ones that blocked the other sites) wouldn't be blocking Netflix as well.
Or at the very least they are going to be monitoring everything you do and anyone who visits Netflix on work time will get a yelling at.
Pornflix next? (Score:1)
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It's called pornmd.