Supertree
abadideaMy work has a bit of an unofficial “if you leave your desktop unlocked and someone proves it by sending an email in your name, you owe everyone cake” policy
One of my coworker’s lock screen wallpaper is a screen shot of the file explorer
Kevin Karhan 
@0xabad1dea top lel!
I know companies that reprimand people at the first time and fire them at the second time they act in "criminally gross neglect"...
Halken@kkarhan @0xabad1dea used to work with a pretty important system. Leaving an unlocked workstation logged into that was a big issue, so everyone made sure to turn screen upside down and lock if they saw it.
That way you knew you forgot, but that someone caught it before someone who would report it saw.
That way you knew you forgot, but that someone caught it before someone who would report it saw.
@halken @0xabad1dea I mean I only saw it in medical and finance so the stakes are high enough to justify it, causing potentially company-crippling damages or even death if abused...
keef@0xabad1dea We used to use whatever keyboard short cut it is to turn the screen 180 degrees. Very few people left their machine unlocked more than once :)
Earl Novy@0xabad1dea an unlocked screen results in a pink kitten background and a mail 😂
pfriedma@0xabad1dea
When I was in college a professor left himself logged in to a public workstation.
My roommate sent the dean his resignation letter.*
The dean accepted it*
*It was written in a way that was obvious what had happened and was all in good fun
keen456
keen456@0xabad1dea How often is there cake in the office?
@keen456 multiple times a week but usually just because it’s someone’s birthday or whatever
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.@0xabad1dea classic! well done
Quixoticgeek@0xabad1dea we have this policy at work. I've caught a lot of people. Thus I am a popular target. I took a screen shot of my typical window layout. Set it as my screen saver. And walked off. Took my colleagues ages to work out what I'd done...
Still makes me laugh.
Maria Varmazis 
@0xabad1dea haha, we had something like that in my R7 days as well. Cake, donuts, whatever treat was requested
One of my faves to do was to instead replace someone's wallpaper on the DL and leave all their windows as-is so they wouldn't notice for a while. Shirtless David Hasselhoff was always a great one, especially if they only first noticed when docking in a meeting room.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@0xabad1dea Love it. We have similar, and after my colleague sent an email from my account declaring my undying love for one of our BA's, I *religiously* lock the damned thing!
DROP\ TABLE Hacker of Earthsea@0xabad1dea how to find snitches
Tim Lavoie@0xabad1dea Doing the wallpaper trick is also good against the victim.
kasperdFor some reason this reminds me of a screen saver I once saw, which cycles through crash screens from many different operating systems.
Eystein Roll Aarseth@kasperd @0xabad1dea xscreensaver's "bsod" module on Unix/Linux systems.
Matando@0xabad1dea in highschool my computer teacher had software that displayed an image and froze the computer to get everyone's attention when lecturing. I found where the image was stored, used the registry to edit my wallpaper to it(editing the wallpaper was blocked) and used the task manager to kill the explorer.exe process and complained that my computer froze. One of the best pranks in school 😂
Also, they disabled the run dialog but not CTRL+SHIFT+ESC🤣
Eli the Bearded@0xabad1dea My work has a similar low stakes penalty. Pre-covid my boss had such a lock screen. (Since then different boss and no required come to office so can't say what it's like now except that there are far fewer proven "left unlocked" cases.)
SpaceLifeForm
JamesGecko@0xabad1dea In the before times when I had physical coworkers, I would helpfully install and activate the “hot dog stand” VSCode theme on their unlocked machines.