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A man looks at a series of monitors as he works in a cramped office. The subject is a model.
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Management saved fifty bucks a month by wasting twenty thousand dollars of my time
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A representation of a software engineer pointing at a monitor as he works in a small office.
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A photographic depiction of an engineer working on monitors.
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Now, the manager is up in arms, wondering why productivity steeply declined over the last quarter. Perhaps the reason has something to do with the fact that you, sir, refused to pay $50 for what could have saved the entire company thousands of dollars' worth of work. Sure, now you have an admittedly shoddy software for this kind of data extraction of your own. However, the engineer made a point to explain that what he created would need to be radically adjusted for future projects, so it's not exactly time or money well spent.
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A software engineer goes through notes as he works on monitors in an office. Subject is a model.
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This is not the first instance of poor use of company resources that members of this online community have come across. For more stories like this, take a look at this article about an employee who caught their manager bending the rules as well as this piece about an employee who automated their work tasks without anyone knowing.
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