Do people realize your boss and colleagues can see how long you’ve been offline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If people don’t have enough to do, they need to be cut or more work needs to be assigned.

These days, everyone says they’re swamped. Most aren’t, but it’s a reflexive response that means “leave me alone.” You need to challenge these people and understand what they’re doing and how long it’s taking. If they’re dragging things out, challenge them with more work and tighter deadlines. If they don’t make these, start documenting and prepare to PIP.

Haha so guess what happens then. You wind up with an employee like myself who mommy-tracked and can do the hardest work perfectly in a couple hours while it takes my colleagues weeks.

I’m down for firing all of them and can do all the work for sure because frankly I’m bored but for some reason my general counsel thinks it looks bad to keep firing people. Who knew it’s kind of about retaining and attracting actual talent?

[Anonymous]

We have Teams, but most people use it only for scheduled meetings. If something is urgent, we use SMS messaging, and never Teams.

My workplace is mostly manage-by-objective with easily monitored deliverables. So time logged in is ignored, as long as one makes deliverables and dates and sufficient quality output.

[Anonymous]

Whenever I read a post like OP I immediately think of Crystal and her salad phone.

https://youtu.be/awlApL8lBX4?si=wrf-2xBN-r9BYYqy

[Anonymous]

I am always in red on Teams. Always. And I'm a lawyer who litigates so have discovery deadlines. If I wasn't working, my a$$ would have been hauled into court by now for missing deadlines. Sounds like you should MYOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever I read a post like OP I immediately think of Crystal and her salad phone.

https://youtu.be/awlApL8lBX4?si=wrf-2xBN-r9BYYqy

lol thank you. I think they sprung the ann taylor loft line on her. She couldn't hold that laugh in.

[Anonymous]

Does that mean they aren’t working? What if they are emailing from or using another device?

If someone in my company pointed that out I would laugh at them and tell them to feel free to speak up when I am not doing my job intone then STFU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have Skype and there's no way to turn it off. If you try to close it, it gets minimized. So if it shows you as offline, then you're offline (you'd otherwise show as available/away/busy).

I view being offline the same as not being in the office during the old days - unless you've travelled to another work location for official business, you should be on leave. I assume that when my colleagues show offline, they have taken leave or flexed their hours and are "out of office."

That is such a … small … way of thinking.

Were you also a teacher’s pet and hall monitor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s Friday morning, nearly 11am, and the majority of my colleagues have been offline for upwards of 15 to 24 hours. I can see this in outlook and teams.

Does everyone realize this info is available?

Does anyone care?

I’m tempted to schedule Thursday afternoon and Friday morning meetings just to make sure people are working some hours.

The J1 J2 guy is back.

I thought the same. And I think he sock-puppeted the "I watched Hulu all morning" response above. He surfs DCUM during work hours A LOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s Friday morning, nearly 11am, and the majority of my colleagues have been offline for upwards of 15 to 24 hours. I can see this in outlook and teams.

Does everyone realize this info is available?

Does anyone care?

I’m tempted to schedule Thursday afternoon and Friday morning meetings just to make sure people are working some hours.

Most employers track key strokes.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s Friday morning, nearly 11am, and the majority of my colleagues have been offline for upwards of 15 to 24 hours. I can see this in outlook and teams.

Does everyone realize this info is available?

Does anyone care?

I’m tempted to schedule Thursday afternoon and Friday morning meetings just to make sure people are working some hours.

I don’t stay logged in to Microsoft or teams or even VPN, and am working just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these your reports or just colleagues you work with? If they aren’t your reports or impacting your work in some way, who cares. I don’t have the time or energy to track other people’s online status or get irritated about it if they’re offline.

It’s a mix of direct reports, subordinates further down the food chain, and peers at my supervisory level.

The reason I know this is because I’m emailing people with requests and I can see they’ve been offline since early yesterday afternoon. Multiple people. Nobody is officially using leave. Nobody is responding in a timely manner.

This is becoming routine for more and more people.

What I’m noticing is the new casual Friday trend is sleeping in and not bothering to login until 11am or so.

I’m just surprised that people don’t realize it’s noticeable…and worried these slackers will prompt management to drag us into the office.

No one with kids age 0-16 is sleeping in until 11am. Thx for the laugh

[Anonymous]

I don’t always work on the computer. I don’t care.

[Anonymous]

I set my teams at "away" sometimes so people don't bother me since it looks like I am not there. A lot of us do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these your reports or just colleagues you work with? If they aren’t your reports or impacting your work in some way, who cares. I don’t have the time or energy to track other people’s online status or get irritated about it if they’re offline.

It’s a mix of direct reports, subordinates further down the food chain, and peers at my supervisory level.

The reason I know this is because I’m emailing people with requests and I can see they’ve been offline since early yesterday afternoon. Multiple people. Nobody is officially using leave. Nobody is responding in a timely manner.

This is becoming routine for more and more people.

What I’m noticing is the new casual Friday trend is sleeping in and not bothering to login until 11am or so.

I’m just surprised that people don’t realize it’s noticeable…and worried these slackers will prompt management to drag us into the office.

No one with kids age 0-16 is sleeping in until 11am. Thx for the laugh

The colleagues at issue don’t have kids. They just aren’t logged in or working.

I sent multiple emails today to people who hadn’t logged in for several hours and never received responses.

[Anonymous]

There are so many apps you can install …