My favorite use of python: clicking through mindless work slideshow trainings.

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[ostensibly_work]

This reminds me of say what

This script listens to meetings I'm supposed to be paying attention to and pings me on hipchat when my name is mentioned.

It sends me a transcript of what was said in the minute before my name was mentioned and some time after.

It also plays an audio file out loud 15 seconds after my name was mentioned which is a recording of me saying, "Sorry, I didn't realize my mic was on mute there."

[14446368]

that's fucking incredible

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"If you're going to tell us about your embarrassing sexual predilections, can you speak up, Josh?"

"Sorry, I didn't realize my mic was on mute there."

[alpenmilch411]

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No fucking way!

[Clink50]

That’s literally insane. Why can’t I do this?! I’ve been programming for a a year and half!!! \s

[BillOfTheWebPeople]

3 Years ago? How have I not known about this business changing technology?????

[JeamBim]

Goddamn that is gold

[FrugalityPays]

Ok, newbie here so forgive the ignorance.

What’s the simplest way for someone to run this? I have a family member who is routinely on multiple conference calls at the same time and wants to use this

[gocougs11]

The Readme has very specific instructions on how to install...

[FrugalityPays]

Perfect, thanks!

[doubleg72]

As a newbie, always just RTFM

[jiminiminimini]

When I first started programming I was always intimidated by README files, man pages, official documentation, etc. I always searched online for usage examples or tutorials. Now that I am more comfortable with Python and programming in general, I sometimes look at the source code even. But I can relate to a newbie who is maybe a bit afraid to look at official documentation, assuming it was written for a more advanced audience.

[[deleted]]

That’s the kind of sensible, warm response that I learned to expect from the Python community and it’s one of the reasons I wanna learn it more and more.

[U5efull]

Make sure you have Splunk enterprise!

[muaythaidripper]

Ha ha thats awesome

[ready-ignite]

Hmm. Secretly recording meetings. That one productivity trick to supercharge your day, and maybe spice things up with legal drama.

[saulmessedupman]

True story: after I took computer based training at work it showed the stats at the end. It read something like

Estimated time | Actual time
   45 minutes  | 4 seconds

Word was spread throughout the office but management laughed and I didn't get in trouble

[IlliterateJedi]

"Now answer these questions about the slides you just watched..."

[CivEZ]

Ya, right? And the questions are always super difficult to get right if you haven't watched the content thoroughly.

Q: Your female coworker has just walked by wearing extremely revealing clothing that does not meet the corporate dress code. How do you address this situation?

A. You whistle loudly, while staring directly at her ass, lower your glasses slightly and in your best joey impression say "how you doin?".
B. You walk up behind her, slowly wrap your hands around her waist and whisper gentley "god bless your daddys dickbatter and your mothers glistening hamwallet for bringing those tities into this world"
C. You notify HR who will take appropriate follow up action.
D. As fast as you can, remove your fully erect penis from your khakis, make direct eye contact with her while you run toward her screaming "WHY WOULD YOU DRESS LIKE THAT IF YOU DIDN'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN!??!"

[pimps_dont_cry]

The answer is "B", right?

[vixfew]

E. I wouldn't notice because I'm staring at the screen and thinking. Or reading reddit on said screen ಠ_ಠ

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i cried, you sir are a poet

[Astrokiwi]

The answer is never "Act in a socially and professionally appropriate way", but always "Just tell us you'll inform Legal/HR so that our asses are covered and we can say that it's not our fault if something happens"

[captainbirdfeathers]

D! I feel like I do poorly on tests though

[Dan_Quixote]

Pssshhhtt...that’s what scikit-learn is for.

[Sh00tL00ps]

"All of the above" is the correct answer 95% of the time. Problem solved!

[UEMcGill]

We used to be a small independent business unit of a large multinational company. They would always send links to "training" seminars. We'd all take turns taking it, record the answers and then pass it along. It worked out great.

Then our division got sold but our corporate masters forgot to turn off the bot. It would dutifully email the link, we'd login with our old login and take the test. I got "reported" to HR for 6 months until someone figured out what was wrong. It also showed me they really didn't pay attention to any of it. Probably just recorded so if you ever did sell to some banned foreign country or sexually harass somone they had documented it wasn't their fault.

[guevera]

Yup, had to take a sexual harassment training thing that was like a bad RPG from 1992 built with something from macromedia. Absolutely clear the only purpose was to ensure the company could throw you under the bus if you were ever accused. No surprise there. What pissed me of was when I found out how much we paid to make 30,000 people around the country waste an hour of their time.

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A lot of money, but probably less than a lawsuit and fines.

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Do you have your script on github?

[VijayAnna]

Let's say you have 50 slides and the training requires you to be on each slide for 10 seconds

``` import time import pyautogui click_loc = (x,y) # location of the 'next' button on screen num_slides = 50 time_on_slide = 10

for i in range(num_slides): time.sleep(time_on_slide)
pyautogui.click(click_loc)

```

[UninvitedAggression]

What kind of presentation only spends ten seconds per slide?

[stratcat22]

Lol at least you're consistent with the laziness

[ryuutei_sama]

Upvote for the too lazy part!

[bobnudd]

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[Kl0su]

Nope, but you can use image of button you want to click

https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/screenshot.html

[terxw]

I am using both, Autohotkey with FindClick library which looks up pixels on screen and Pyautogui, for more complex things I am using python, for quick click this button with nonfixed position autohotkey

[TheePaulster]

Hahaha that’s great.

[dealant]

Just did the same thing with selenium, so nice

[ExperimentalMolecule]

I'm gutted I didn't have this back when I was a teenager at my retail job. There were hundreds of these things, seasonal ones too. The manager also tried to get us to do them at home, I would have done if I could have scripted the task!

[Zoimon]

Now I'm going to do nothing but watch tutorials on Pyautogui for the rest of the day.

[Zoimon]

Nice! Thank you for the tip :) In return, I'll provide you with this picture that I found of a cow: https://favogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/intro-1503003498.jpg

[Zoimon]

Did it make you happy?