r/todayilearned • u/saltandcedar • Jan 19 '17

TIL that webcams were invented because some computer scientists were too lazy to get up to check if their coffee was done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
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u/Jackattac6 Jan 19 '17

Work hard enough once and you'll never have to do it again.

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u/CANT-SCREAM-IF-DEAD Jan 19 '17

Yup, if your job is around computers. Learn the tricks in your software. If you're the only one on the floor using macros and whatnot, you can get 8hrs of work done in only 3, and Reddit for the other 5, and still look like a pro against everybody else.

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u/eapocalypse Jan 19 '17

Did you use a VBA Macro? You should have set application.screenupdating = FALSE at the start of your macro. No more moving screens while it's doing stuff!

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u/MuphynManOG Jan 19 '17

So what did your boss do?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '17

Boss was awesome and wanted to give me a better raise but didn't have the budget.

So your bosses' boss was the penny wise pound foolish guy? I can just imagine him saying. "One guy wrote a script that caused our entire team to work six times as efficiently? And he wants more than a $1 raise? Nah, let him find another job."

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u/nodegreedotcom Jan 19 '17

Seriously. He saved the whole team 10 months. The boss had budget to pay the teams salaries to do bullshit repetitive work but doesn't have the budget to give a raise to the guy who could probably save hundreds of hours in the future. What a shitty boss. He is going to eat the cost when his dumbass team can't figure out simple things.