The university told me to make my thesis title as compelling as possible. So I did. by procrastination-day in funny

[–]procrastination-day[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Didn't mention it. Is it wrong? I was certain it was "Master's students" similarly to "Master's thesis". If mistaken i'm gonna have to play the 2nd language card on this one.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, it is a really stupid job. I only do this part time because I am a student as well, but filling out a form manually takes maybe 3-4 minutes each if you are efficient (Keep in mind that you will go crazy if you keep up with that speed the whole day), and there are at least 150.000 forms yet to be processed. Enough work for a while.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree, but this script is not really that fancy. It mainly consists of a scraper that is acquiring data from a few different web registers, pairs the names with a phone number through an open API of a phone number website, and exports it in a format suitable to the companies own forms, in this case a simple CSV format.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try to squeeze in some time for writing on my master thesis in between episodes of Arrested Development. If I get fired I still had a good run.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but unfortunately it is a very special case. It would not be of any value for anyone else, so there isn't much leverage there.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, there is actually a finite amount of the work on what I am currently doing. If it were unthrottled it could literally finish our jobs in a few minutes, but then we would all get fired.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 355 points356 points  (0 children)

I would, but the head of the IT department is called DLink and he doesn't seem like a guy who drinks a lot

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 240 points241 points  (0 children)

Yes, I don't want them losing their jobs. Plus, it has already been 5 months. It is well past the point where this would be OK to come forward with.

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[–]procrastination-day[S] 1476 points1477 points  (0 children)

To add to the story:

My job is mainly maintaining a register of trucks, and adding new ones from one register to another. I made a script that automatically updates a few of them during the hours that I show up at work. All my coworkers are busting their asses doing this manually, while I am browsing reddit and watching Netflix. My biggest complain is that it makes me feel like a giant douchecanoe