Procrastination helper

2023-05-30

What???

Looking for that perfect excuse that you cannot use your computer? Look no further.

This is a procrastination helper. It's been designed to look like an important software update. Installing security updates as soon as they arrive is generally a good thing. Everyone will think you are a good employee who installs the update, although they don't know this update is totally bogus. It's only a web page animated to imitate a major software update to fool anyone who sees it.

Press the F11 key for fullscreen on the window that will open by clicking the button below and your managers cannot expect you to do anything useful for the rest of the day.


Windows
Windows

MacOS
MacOS

Tricks

A few tricks along the way:

  • Using ALT+TAB will move any other window you actually want to interact with infront of the procrastination window. Any click on the background will instantly show the procrastination window again.
  • Most browsers will respond to the F11 key to toggle fullscreen mode. There's generally also a menu option for fullscreen mode.
  • Many organizations keep an audit log of everything you do on a corporate computer. If this is analyzed no entries of upgrades will be seen, but probably your browser history - including this page.

Disclaimer

Of course this utility is only to be used in a playful manner, and not for any actual procrastination.
Managers have feelings too, and are under a lot of preassure to perform. They should not be objects of extensive mocking. Also, it's not nice too fool people. Behave.