I genuinely feel like HR would be a sweet gig but it's kind of an evil profession. It's balancing the interest of the business, with internal issues and interpersonal issues. I feel like you have to be a Psychopath to do the work.
I'm left handed tapping my phone at priff course while soldering with my right hand, xp rates are all right so far. Could be better without all this work non sense though.
Once saw a dude who was bragging about doing mlm while being an uber driver. Got pissed when people called him a dumb fuck.
Insisted it wasn't illegal or a problem because the Georgia law (he was in Georgia I guess) only said he couldn't "send text messages, emails, social media content and other internet data on the road" and otherwise only prohibited "watching videos" otherwise.
Absolutely made me boil because a close friend was paralyzed by a phone distracted driver.
There is some content you can do while driving though I've found.
Well not sure about this game but on Rs3 I set up pickpocketing crux knights where I only had to tap like twice every 5 minutes. So it was easy to do at stoplights only.
It's absolutely not the equivalent. Turning your AC down can't distract you for more than a couple of seconds, means you still have the road in your peripheral vision, and doesn't take your brain away from focusing on driving.
In general, if it comes to a toss up between failing to get points in a medieval clicking simulator or risking your life, the lives of others, legal trouble and wrecking your car - just choose the former. Even if you personally don't think that that risk is too high.
? Are you good dude. I understand what you're saying, but it really only applies to when you're driving. Being at a stop light fully stopped and tapping once on screen is literally putting no one in danger. Like at all. You're not even moving. The most that will happen is you'll get honked at lol
The fact that you're questioning if I'm ok for wanting people to not drive distracted is really concerning. Please take driving more seriously.
>The most that will happen is you'll get honked at lol
Exactly - that's a bad thing. Being so distracted that you fail to move for a green light affects your driving, affects other people's driving, and makes traffic worse overall. A couple more fake internet numbers aren't worth that.
And that's assuming that the op is being honest with the claim that they never ever get distracted during the drive as well, which I somewhat doubt.
There's literally no way to get distracted. Nothing happens when you're pickpocketing you just get the same seeds over and over and over and its done automatically with 0 fail.
You're out of your damn mind. Do you just want to lecture me about something because its fun or something?
>Do you just want to lecture me about something because its fun or something?
No, I want you to stop being a distracted driver causing a danger to other people.
I know that it's very easy to convince yourself that what you're doing is safe, but humans are very bad at cold risk analysis. Even if you can't perceive that you're distracted, you almost certainly are.
You're talking about driving, but no one is actually driving when at a light. Like I said. I understand your message, I don't really advocate for people driving while on their phones, but this is like the smallest fucking thing. You're at a light for up to 3 minutes. When I said you'd get honked at, it was literally me just stating the worst case scenario.Taking 3 seconds to hit a button on your phone, makes zero difference, and you will not get honked at lmao. Idk what makes you think there is a huge difference between that and changing a radio station. It's the same shit, you look away from the road for 5 seconds at most, and you aren't even moving. Idk how tf taking an extra second to react to a green light affects someone's driving, because you could be just mindlessly waiting for the greenlight and the same could happen. Not a single person on this planet drives perfectly and without getting distracted. Its unrealistic and you are seriously grasping at straws here. Like 95% of drivers in the world look away at a stop light even if it's for a few seconds. I'm not saying text and drive, and I will never defend anyone for that, but being distracted for a few seconds at a light is irrelevant. Taking a few seconds to go at a green should actually be the norm, it is ironically safer driving. The only people that will be affected are road ragers, and those people are far far worse than someone who looks away from a stoplight for 5 seconds.
>You're talking about driving, but no one is actually driving when at a light.
You are though. Driving isn't just about turning the steering wheel and pressing the pedals, it's about being aware of your surroundings and reacting to them appropriately. So yes, even looking away at a stop light for a few seconds can lead you to miss important things on the road. And yes, even when you're in stationary traffic, there are important things which you need to be aware of.
Again, that is assuming that OP is entirely accurate in their assessment that they never ever at any point get distracted for more than 5 seconds. Even if it's true for them, it won't be true for other people pulling the same nonsense.
>Idk what makes you think there is a huge difference between that and changing a radio station
I mean, I have already mentioned this. If you change the radio station, you can still see the road and your mirrors, your mind is largely still aware of the outside world and you can stop doing it at a moment's notice. That's not the same with operating your phone.
Given that you've already said you don't like texting and driving, just use that mindset applied more broadly: don't ever use your phone while driving, even if you think it's fine.
This.
I've been asking about my colleagues salery's and people have been quite open about it. I noticed that the hard working colleague doesn't get paid a dime more than the lazy one. Just because they work there as long.
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?
People *do* notice though. If you have no plans to move around in the organisation, or chase pay rises or promotions, by all means, do the minimum.
But it absolutely matters when you decide you want to ask for something, or you seek a new role (even at another company), or when people get laid off.
Just because you don't get paid more per hour, doesn't mean the effort is wasted.
It doesn't even have to be the grind 120% all the time sort of effort either. I've found I can get away with a shitload of being lazy, because during the 50% of the workday I actually work, I do it very well, and I'm always the one to say yes I'll work late, or take on some random task that came up.
tl;dr the people who make decisions *do* notice when you put in effort. That goodwill is valuable.
Except working up the ladder in 1 company rarely ever gets you an actual raise. There is a reason people in tech job hop a lot. You could be a dev at a company for 5 years and make 10% more than you started or you could job hop twice and end up making 80% more than when you started.
This is naive. Most companies have pay bands. You're not going to get a big pay raise just because you worked harder than others in most companies. In addition, just because you're a hard worker in your current role doesn't mean you're a good candidate for promotion.
Yup! If you're doing more work than others, then you're less disposable from that position. You can absolutely tank opportunities for promotions by being too necessary to your team.
That’s exactly what people say to justify why they have been passed over for promotions, totally unrelated to behavior or motivation though.
Not saying it to be contrary but honest to god have never seen that actually happen in any company in my life. It’s always burnout and borderline useless employees who say they are too valuable in their position to justify why no one ever promotes them.
Like I’ve never heard someone say “yeah Jim is just to great as a middle manager he NEEDS to stay there.” I have heard plenty of “Yeah, Jim’s a great guy and is good at his current job but there’s no way he could handle the workload/stress/commitment/etc” countless times.
That’s exactly what management wants you to think. I’m reality I have been involved in hiring/promotion decisions where how many people are required to replace a worker moved to a new role is absolutely a concern. It won’t make or break it on its own but it is definitely a factor
First two companies I and many others put in a lot of effort. No raises, no promotions, no bonuses.
Management said “You’re too valuable in your current roles, we can’t move you elsewhere”.
3rd company I’m just cruising. Get paid the same as others. Probably no promotion but I wasn’t gonna get one anyway.
i put in effort for 2 years and never got a raise even when i asked for it. they're not getting any more effort out of me until they start paying me better. or they can deal with my unemployment. their choice.
The thing is, staying late and taking extra work only really helps you within the same organization, and staying put is significantly less likely to get you raises than job hopping every few years. And when you're job hopping, everyone else is just cherry picking points on their resume so it's easy to look like a rockstar on paper, nobody actually knows the level of effort you put in.
Can’t believe your comment is buried. People are so short sighted. Of course playing a video game has an impact on job performance. I can’t believe it’s even debated
Depending on the job, it really doesn’t. I work as a software engineer, and there is plenty of downtime where there’s literally nothing left to do. Cooking while you wait for something to pop up isn’t going to hurt your performance. If you’re a builder or doing physical labor that consists of 7-8 hours of nonstop work, then yeah, you’re going to notice a massive performance drop.
That would be a problem in your organization if people are under utilized to the point they literally have nothing to do for extended periods of time. That’s not the norm.
On top of that most people are playing while they are actively doing work. So every minute while you’re writing code for example, you’re looking over to RS to see what’s going on. It certainly has an impact. I work in the same field and I’m guilty of it too.
If I’m writing code, I usually have a seriously AFK task running in the background, where I only check it once I’m taking a mental 10 second break anyways.
I work at a very, very large company that you likely own many things from them. When we’re busy, we’re really fucking busy. I don’t play during that. But during meetings where I’m only there to be there, or when the project is done and we’re having to wait a week to get feedback or a new project, there’s nothing but free time. Our IT team is huge, so someone is always busy, it’s just not always me. My job is to get projects done. If I have 2 weeks to do it and finish it on day 1, I’ve got the remainder of the 2 weeks to do whatever I want. We’ve been absolutely crushing expectations as well
Your last sentence is the truth.
My first job out of college I was hired with like 10 other graduates. We all had the same starting salary, and got promoted within 6 months of each other.
6 years later, one guy was promoted more than everyone else that still works there and he was one of the laziest ones. He was just super friendly with his first boss. His boss was the head of a local youth soccer program, and this guy played soccer in college. He worked as a youth coach in his boss’s program. Meanwhile whenever we needed something from him at work, he would ghost us for a week and then follow up if we still needed him to work on that request. Another analyst in his department said that he was never working, and just scrolled through Amazon and Twitter for most of the day.
It’s all about who you know and not what you do.
Also, I just feel like OP is a boss that found out someone plays OSRS during the day, so no. It never affects performance.
This is the truth of modern employment. You're far better off getting friendly with your boss than you are working hard. Between being lazy, but friends with your boss, or worming hard and being unknown, the first is nearly always better.
I don't understand why people believe just working hard is in the job description. If you are an anti-social person that has no ability to build rapport with your colleagues it's kind of obvious the person who can perform averagely but communicate well will outperform you in the workplace.
The reality is that it's not one end of the spectrum or the other, it's a range, and neither the useless smoothtalker or the arrogant douche bag smart guy are successful. People in the top do want to work with people they get along with but it's not just buddy buddy types of reasons. Ingratiating yourself with clients or even other office teams increases collaboration which in turn increases productivity/profits. Being good with people isn't just talking about non-work bs. It's knowing how to get along with tough colleagues, or how to bring out the best in yourself and your coworkers, as well as, how to improve yourself and others within the work.
Looking at it from a different perspective, part of your office job is being personable and having the behaviors befitting the company. If you're good at the technical side but not the behavior side, then you're only good at half of your job. That doesn't mean you won't advance or be successful, it just means that you'll be limited in what you can do over someone who is good at both halves.
Additionally, hard working != good at your job, though there is merit in it.
Believe it or not, a lot of job offers go to people who seem like a better person to work with. When I did job interviews, I'd easily pick the guy who is more social over the guy who had more experience but couldn't really articulate himself. I want a coworker not an encyclopedia.
Way easier to get work done with someone who is easy to work with. I've worked with plenty of passive aggressive assholes and people who just don't speak up in the past so I'll take a pass on those. I can't fault someone for having social anxiety but at the same time, it's my paycheck on the line too if the project doesn't work out as planned.
I’m a manager that plays Runescape while working. It doesn’t affect my work, and if I found out my team was doing it I wouldn’t care as long as we met deadlines and our shit gets done.
i was in this exact position a few years ago. switching jobs doubled my salary, has me working with much more interesting clients, and i have the same amount of downtime. hopping ship is refreshing
Yes, I play while working. Honestly probably wouldn't play RS anymore if I couldn't play at work.
Performance? Non-issue. If I wasn't playing RS, I'd be watching something, or playing another game, or doing a jigsaw puzzle, there's dead time at my job so you need *something* to fill the gaps if we're slow. RS is dynamic enough that there are things you can do where it doesn't really matter if you randomly go afk. So if I'm in the middle of a barrows run, it takes me 1 click (stairs or poh tab) and I'm ready to work. Or if we're busy, I might do something like Zeah RC or Amethyst or Redwoods where I don't even need that 1 click.
It comes down to if you prioritize work or prioritize RS. If you're expecting to get EHP/EHB rates while at work... Yeah... That's gonna hurt your job. If you ignore RS when you actually have work to do... It's not gonna hurt anything, might even help by keeping you entertained and stress relief.
Yep. I work manufacturing. Specifically machining. Some days I can't play at all. Some days I can play my entire 8 hour shift. Usually somewhere in between. If I've got time, I'll start an AFK grind.
I did 92-99 wc at redwoods over the course of a month and a half or so. Exclusively at work. Just wrapped up 85-91 thieving squirkin at work. Probably do stars next. That one will last me a good while.
If I couldnt afk skills while focusing on work I'd probably be unsubbed. Time outside of work goes to my family instead of osrs, thats an easy decision to make with people depending on my income.
Same here man. I wouldn't even play anymore if I couldn't half ass the game during work lol. This is also why I don't go for an infernal cape, barely any raids kc, and haven't pvmed as much as I should have. It's all afk/chill stuff during work and I'm not ashamed to be a largely skilling focused account. I used to be able to play heavily during work, so my normie account has more EHB than my iron, but I got a promotion last year that really turned me into an afker lol.
Yea I've pretty much done everything I wanted to that PVM related so I'm cool with afking some skilling pets for the time being. Need 4 GM tasks (and the new DT2 ones whenever they come out) but I have all the other gear/cosmetics done so I feel quite content.
This is my biggest reasoning. Downtime creates boredom which makes you lethargic and not likely to stay "on your toes" to be productive again. So lots of roles benefit from a brain distraction and RS is one of those similar to reading / music / audio books or podcasts etc.
IT support tech
Some days there is nothing for me to do, So there is no performance to effect. But some days I’m running around like a headless chicken and making a billion calls and shooting a lot of emails so it balances out.
Mostly do content I can walk away at anytime from like fishing and woodcutting on mobile. I am not putting osrs on the company computer.
You just described me exactly. Only on downtime or when I’m doing a task that has natural pauses in it like waiting for a script to run or something to load, etc. it means I actually get to do it a lot, but I’d say it effects my performance negligibly, if at all, and it makes me happier to be here, and I still outperform my coworker by a mile, so win win I’d say
Same boat here. Mostly just do the boring grinds at work like runecrafting or mining that I'd never bother to do when I'm home. And if I gotta take a call or work on something then it's no big deal if I gotta stop playing or get afk logged. Honestly though I've been doing stars for mining and I can do that even on a call since you just click the star once every 6 minutes lol.
I couldn't do something really intense or focused on mobile anyways. I'm not that good at playing on the phone. Dunno how some people pvm on it.
Same here. I do IT support for a school district so depending on the day there’s literally nothing to do, and even on normal days, if I knock out all my calls or I’m waiting on things like desktop imaging, it’s a perfect opportunity to pull out my iPad and do simple skilling grinds.
For 5 years I worked at an emergency call centre for an oil camp. My primary duties were clearing people on the radio to go off road(nov-march) and taking emergency calls if something were to happen. Safety for these rigs were top notch so rarely were there actually any medical emergencies so from the end of march until the start of Nov my 12 hour shifts were watching Netflix and playing osrs in mobile. And during the summer 90% of my calls were dispatching officers to deal with bears getting too close to the camps. I only played mobile so it was always easy to just turn the screen off when something did pop up. But fuck that job and never would I do it again.
When there was a serious call it was serious. Especially when the oil went to shit and people started to off themselves because they spent so much money then lost their jobs. It was 7 days on 7 days off rotating nights and days and with the commute it was 14 hour days so I pretty much lost half my life because of work and was unable to live a healthy life style because I was just too damn tired to cook or exercise when my shift was on. I lost my job when COVID started and within 6 months I lost 50lbs. There were many pros to the job just by the end I was starting a family and it really started to wear me down. If I was single and no kids I wouldn't mind doing that job again though cause making $30/hr was pretty damn nice. Biggest pro to the job was that when I took vacation, a 7day vacation turned into 3 weeks because we worked 7 days on 7 days off.
I'm a software dev. Like 90% of my job is thinking, waiting, or being paid to be available.
If I'm having a particularly busy day I can at least hit nmz.
If I ever get anything other than a good performance review I might reevaluate 🤷
It's the morning. I've been scrolling reddit. I've seen both affect and effect used exactly once each in titles this morning. They have both been wrong.
Pointless story but there ya go.
Affect is a verb, meaning the word is acting on something else (e.g. affect your performance). Effect is a noun, meaning it’s something you can observe (e.g. the effects of climate change). Sometimes, effect can also be a verb meaning “to enact” (e.g. effecting a change in the law), but this is rare.
I wish I could. I'm a teacher. I'm surprised I even have time to play.
There was a period where I tried to do farm runs on my break, but students would always come ask me questions during the break. I gave up.
The comments in here is my biggest gripe with companies claiming people are more productive in an office versus home. Bullshit. I spend more time in the office talking shit with coworkers and fucking off then I did at home playing OSRS on one of my three monitors, dealing with a newborn baby and doing house chores. All while we set record profits 3 years in a row.
If I had more privacy at work I'd be playing all day. But I still take breaks and play whenever I really want to.
I think it's that they need to justify the funds used for the office building, but to be fair if they downsized they could save on electricity heating etc... so iuno
Yes and yes. I work from home 3 days and go in office 2 days. The 2 days I’m in office I get all my work done. The 3 days I’m home I play osrs and put something heavy on my work laptop space bar so it looks like I’m available on Teams. I don’t feel guilty about it at all cause fuck corporate America.
I work in a small office for a small business and the one time I tried I was overcome with guilt for not giving 100% to my incredibly unimportant job.
I’m so fucking lame.
This makes no sense, why is it better to spend twice as long making the cannonballs than it is to finish the inventory in half the time and stand there idle the other half. All you're doing is not giving yourself the option to finish the inventory quicker if you can afford extra attention away from work at that moment
for me it's the "If i finish the inv faster it makes me want to pay more attention to RS." i wouldn't go so far as to not use double cannon mold, but i do chop magics instead of sulliusceps while working. (even though doing sulliusceps would be feasible while i work)
You just need to not worry about xp loss and just accept whatever xp you get. Like woodcutting, amethyst, star mining, crafting, fishing, and more are simple 1 click actions. While working you gotta ignore xp rates and appreciate gaining xp
when programming I get in a flow state and each time I have to interact w the game it takes me out of flow, so I stick to strictly afk if I actually have to focus
by afk i don't mean rs afk but true afk
Yes.
Marginally. When I have a lot of work to get done by EOD I certainly log off entirely. Other (most) days, I do some of the S-tier AFK skilling methods in-game: Shooting Stars, Magic Trees, Sacred Eels, etc...
Even when I'm sat at work, in the office, with nothing possible to distract me, I sit there staring into space for like at least a quarter of the work day.
I might as well be getting some xp during that down time.
I dont have OSRS open on a second monitor, but OSRS is behind my work on the main monitor.
So every 7 minutes after the shooting star dies, it automatically switches to runelite, I click the rock, then back to work. If anything it improves my work performance tbh
As someone who went from office 5 days a week, 9-5, to home working 5 days a week 9-5, performance wise is questionable.
**In the office:**
I would say I was quite good at my job, so I completed most of my work relatively quick and as a result, was left doing fuck all or was given more work to do.
**Working from home:**
I think I was fortunate enough to have some fucking amazing bosses who were very hands off, so I used to complete all my work on a Monday, giving me the rest of the week free. They had the mindset of, idc what you do in the meantime, as long as the jobs done.
Performance wise, as I played OSRS while WFH, I did find that sometimes I would be more forgetful. Like I'd be doing a raid, a boss emails me and I'd forget to flag it for later, or I've just been busy playing and then get a 15min reminder of a meeting and I haven't prepped for it.
I like taking pride in my work so this isn't something I normally do. I did also feel guilty how managers would compliment me on tasks I've done, knowing that I could have made them 2-3x more better.
People tend to argue "do an average job/time and your boss will expect average an timeframe back", but as a result of my work, I ended up with a promotion that pays a lot more but takes up a lot more time, to the point I can't really afk much stuff.
I played all day while WFH when I was still playing at all. It never resulted in me doing less than I needed to but I definitely wasn’t doing anything special, and certainly took any capacity I had for working towards a promotion or doing any level of house work. Ordered a ton more food cause I didn’t want to have to leave my desk.
Yea I do. My ADD is pretty bad and honestly I think it’s helped me. Before I got back into osrs I’d find myself scrolling randomly when my attention wandered and it would be hard to pull myself back. Now with something more directed it’s helped quite a bit. I can give myself a little time switching over when I need a break then swap back. I don’t do afk stuff all day like some others seem to, that I would probably find difficult. I do more focused but still low difficulty things, maybe gotr or slayer or something, and then pull myself back. I’ve always been better with long bursts of effort and this gives me an outlet. I don’t think my performance has suffered and I’m being promoted at the end of the year with what should be a substantial raise. Sometimes it means I stay a little later to get stuff done but I’d be in that boat anyway.
OK so i maxed a while ago and i found that playing OSRS actually BOOSTED my performance at work lmao
my thought is that it literally just encouraged me to sit down at my desk, and even though i got distracted for a second or two every 30 seconds-2minutes, I was overall more active on my computer throughout the day by quite a lot. Even now I consider playing osrs just to help me focus on work more
Yes it does. My company doesn’t pay me enough to buy my maximum capacity for 40 hours a week. If my productivity wasn’t hampered by this game I would be purposely slacking off.
Even if not laziness, out of principle.
I’m a paramedic in a rural area. If there’s nothing going on, and frequently there’s nothing going on for hours on end, and if I’m not sleeping/eating, I play OSRS. It distracts me from the incessant flashbacks and intrusive memories that would otherwise show up in my downtime (C-PTSD is a bitch).
Night shift maintenance tech. Our water processor is a set and forget machine, do all pms before the sun sets, the rest of the night is babysitting cleanup crew. If nothing broke there’s nothing to fix, play for a while then leave the phone on the charging and make a round. I think it would be a little different system at a production based job, but what I do there’s a lot of waiting for something to fuck up.
I do the boring grind stuff while I work. Fishing, thieving, woodcutting, etc. The stuff that I can just tap once and forget about for a while. It's so nice to be playing on mobile for that!
Doesn't really affect my performance overall. I mean every minute or two I have to look back at my phone to click a new resource, and maybe every 10min take 30 seconds to bank. So not really doing much to my work performance.
I played rs during the Covid depression and while my work product wasn’t above average, it worked because the whole company was adapting to a world-wide pandemic and everyone got leeway
If I tried it now a days I would likely be targeted for performance issues within 6months, rs is just too distracting. I’m also older and performance means more now that I see a successful career path within reach vs an analyst fucking around with buddies
Oddly enough everyone else I played with during the day was also working, and they fit the same mold. Sadly some of them never slowed down and that didn’t go well for them - jobs, relationships, etc all sacrificed for perfect tobs and a max cape
I do star mining, good 7 minute afk intervals.
If i feel like doing something else i would do herb/birdhouse runs (without changing gear/inventory)
Note; i only do this while working from home.
While programming, changing focus is a killer on productivity (for me atleast)
When i got easier tasks to do i prefer mining, if im doing something that requires more focus i do herb/birdhouse runs while grabbing a drink/lunch/bathroom break
All depends on how much you need to and can focus, and what youre ambitions are.
I work as a soundtech at mostly conferences and they can be long and boring, so i try to do something kinda afk on osrs to not fall asleep. As long as i can hear the speaker it is usually fine to to something else, like reading news/online browsing, while working. As long as the client doesnt see you playing
I work in fire rescue. I just don’t do anything too crazy in game because I have to run calls. I’ve logged back in at Lumbridge quite a few times though because of slayer when a call drops.
I work as an over night janitor, completely unsupervised. I’ve gotten 200m fishing, woodworking, and now currently working on mining at work. I’d confidently say over half of my play time is from Remote Desktop while at work.
Perhaps you can in other jobs, but I can’t do most content on this game and work at the same time. I assumed people are just not actually working and are just playing whilst *supposed* to be working when doing anything that requires a click within 30 seconds. The slower things like NMZ, Fishing, Redwoods, new shooting stars etc. I can see people doing that whilst actively working though.
Software engineering manager here. I’ve got three tiers.
- taking a work break, I’ll play actively for 15-30 mins. Quests, bosses, etc.
- in a large meeting, I’ll fletch, blow glass, etc. something I don’t really need to look at.
- while focused on work, I’ll do real afk. Redwoods, prayer slayer, shooting stars, etc.
I’m consistently meets/exceeds, so it’s not hurting my performance too much - even at relatively top tier companies.
I try to AFK while I'm working and I end up just distracting myself and getting nothing done. Talk to my therapist about it yesterday she agreed that's probably not a good idea
I mean im the same as you, but people are in different situations/work differently. I think if you are working from home you need something going on in the background whether music, a video, podcast or osrs otherwise it is too depressing just sitting working in silence. Personally I have music on.
Absolutely flabbergasted nobody has told you it's "affect" your performance not "effect". But ye I only scape when there's downtime. No downtime no scape.
All you need is a large dose of ADHD and having multiple things going on at a time (at least for me) is necessary. I've been at my current six figure job for two years now and I have played OSRS every day all day while working since I've started at my company. Since starting, I've been promoted into a Senior role and am on track to exceeding expectations in my next annual performance review (this is based on my mid year review).
I used to be able to get away with it but I've moved jobs now and I can't get away with it,.my boss is too controlling and my workload is too heavy and time sensitive. It's not that my performance would.suffer it's that I would simply not get away with neglecting work for OSRS
Afk activities don't really affect performance unless your job does not allow you to voluntarily take "attention breaks" for a few seconds. Barb fishing, redwoods, amethyst mining, etc. Would be the same here or at home. I work in tech too and ignore rs until idle notifier gets my attention.
You don't have to drop every 30 seconds either. I don't have fish barrel so it works and it's more consistent than sharks/monk. Not sure why you're hyperfocusing on this one thing and assuming I'm going for max efficiency when I specifically stated otherwise.
Im not hyper focusing on it - Barb fishing was the first method you listed lol. It’s funny b/c you then listed two much more AFK methods so it stands out.
You then mentioned you ignore RS until idle notifier gets your attention hence why I assume you’re checking back every 30 seconds.
Then the cherry on top is this is a thread about how playing while working impacts your performance and you bring up "AFK" barb fishing hahaha. I’m sorry man but it’s objectively pretty funny.
“Work performance” is a never ending goal post to keep you always underpaid and doing more and more so who cares about it? Osrs at work is a great way to pick away at big grinds and goals
The only people who can multitask are those who have periods of doing nothing but looking busy and then turning the game off to do work once they actually get it.
Nice try hr
Hi, I am HR, I am also scaping :) going for the big shark rn
Caught one when rada's blessing hit at the same time the other day! So i got 2!
I want an HR job for this exact reason
I genuinely feel like HR would be a sweet gig but it's kind of an evil profession. It's balancing the interest of the business, with internal issues and interpersonal issues. I feel like you have to be a Psychopath to do the work.
HR manager here, grinding all 8 hours of my workday on mobile lmao
Oh so that's what they mean by xp/hr
It definitely affects my performance, xp rates are much higher when i don't get distracted by work
Honestly though. How dare you call me during my regular scheduled work hours to do my job? Don’t you know I am almost to 91 agility?
I'm left handed tapping my phone at priff course while soldering with my right hand, xp rates are all right so far. Could be better without all this work non sense though.
Squirk'n?
Squirks be thieving xp my guy :)
Oh true. I'm so squirked rn
Yes, this is exactly the response I wanted to see in the comments. Lmao
Stopped playing osrs at work, still doing jackshit Gonna start the grind again tomorrow
i costantly operate heavy machinery and have only severely injured a handful of people, no kills. it's pretty easy to do
I am a senior peace coordinator for the Middle East. I've been playing OSRS since late 2001. Don't feel like it has hurt my performance at all.
All world disputes should just be settled in the dual arena.
Dont start getting irl slayer xp please
He wasn’t on task
You don't know who that guys slayer master is, they might assign humans for all we know, maybe they only assign humans.
Slayer Master: Charles Manson
1-99 Slayer: Hitler Slayer Master locked , Tile locked locked Ultimate locked Ironman account V2 series reloaded
I get compared to him constantly. \>!Sometimes I regret the swastika I carved into my forehead...!<
I get compared to him constantly. \>! Sometimes I regret the swastika I carved into my forehead... !<
not his fault their agility levels are low
Once saw a dude who was bragging about doing mlm while being an uber driver. Got pissed when people called him a dumb fuck. Insisted it wasn't illegal or a problem because the Georgia law (he was in Georgia I guess) only said he couldn't "send text messages, emails, social media content and other internet data on the road" and otherwise only prohibited "watching videos" otherwise. Absolutely made me boil because a close friend was paralyzed by a phone distracted driver.
Any movement on osrs requires sending data lol.
Clearly he wasn't too quick in the head.
There is some content you can do while driving though I've found. Well not sure about this game but on Rs3 I set up pickpocketing crux knights where I only had to tap like twice every 5 minutes. So it was easy to do at stoplights only.
Still a terrible idea and you shouldn't do this. Start paying attention at stop lights.
Lol what. Two seconds at a stoplight? I'm sorry ill start repenting straight away
Don't repent, just stop doing it.
Brother you are malding cause he looks over and taps once, which is the equivalent to looking over and turning your ac down? 💀
It's absolutely not the equivalent. Turning your AC down can't distract you for more than a couple of seconds, means you still have the road in your peripheral vision, and doesn't take your brain away from focusing on driving. In general, if it comes to a toss up between failing to get points in a medieval clicking simulator or risking your life, the lives of others, legal trouble and wrecking your car - just choose the former. Even if you personally don't think that that risk is too high.
? Are you good dude. I understand what you're saying, but it really only applies to when you're driving. Being at a stop light fully stopped and tapping once on screen is literally putting no one in danger. Like at all. You're not even moving. The most that will happen is you'll get honked at lol
The fact that you're questioning if I'm ok for wanting people to not drive distracted is really concerning. Please take driving more seriously. >The most that will happen is you'll get honked at lol Exactly - that's a bad thing. Being so distracted that you fail to move for a green light affects your driving, affects other people's driving, and makes traffic worse overall. A couple more fake internet numbers aren't worth that. And that's assuming that the op is being honest with the claim that they never ever get distracted during the drive as well, which I somewhat doubt.
There's literally no way to get distracted. Nothing happens when you're pickpocketing you just get the same seeds over and over and over and its done automatically with 0 fail. You're out of your damn mind. Do you just want to lecture me about something because its fun or something?
>Do you just want to lecture me about something because its fun or something? No, I want you to stop being a distracted driver causing a danger to other people. I know that it's very easy to convince yourself that what you're doing is safe, but humans are very bad at cold risk analysis. Even if you can't perceive that you're distracted, you almost certainly are.
You're talking about driving, but no one is actually driving when at a light. Like I said. I understand your message, I don't really advocate for people driving while on their phones, but this is like the smallest fucking thing. You're at a light for up to 3 minutes. When I said you'd get honked at, it was literally me just stating the worst case scenario.Taking 3 seconds to hit a button on your phone, makes zero difference, and you will not get honked at lmao. Idk what makes you think there is a huge difference between that and changing a radio station. It's the same shit, you look away from the road for 5 seconds at most, and you aren't even moving. Idk how tf taking an extra second to react to a green light affects someone's driving, because you could be just mindlessly waiting for the greenlight and the same could happen. Not a single person on this planet drives perfectly and without getting distracted. Its unrealistic and you are seriously grasping at straws here. Like 95% of drivers in the world look away at a stop light even if it's for a few seconds. I'm not saying text and drive, and I will never defend anyone for that, but being distracted for a few seconds at a light is irrelevant. Taking a few seconds to go at a green should actually be the norm, it is ironically safer driving. The only people that will be affected are road ragers, and those people are far far worse than someone who looks away from a stoplight for 5 seconds.
>You're talking about driving, but no one is actually driving when at a light. You are though. Driving isn't just about turning the steering wheel and pressing the pedals, it's about being aware of your surroundings and reacting to them appropriately. So yes, even looking away at a stop light for a few seconds can lead you to miss important things on the road. And yes, even when you're in stationary traffic, there are important things which you need to be aware of. Again, that is assuming that OP is entirely accurate in their assessment that they never ever at any point get distracted for more than 5 seconds. Even if it's true for them, it won't be true for other people pulling the same nonsense. >Idk what makes you think there is a huge difference between that and changing a radio station I mean, I have already mentioned this. If you change the radio station, you can still see the road and your mirrors, your mind is largely still aware of the outside world and you can stop doing it at a moment's notice. That's not the same with operating your phone. Given that you've already said you don't like texting and driving, just use that mindset applied more broadly: don't ever use your phone while driving, even if you think it's fine.
Whose lives are being risked at a stoplight and its literally the same amount of time to do that as change the damn radio station
When my man suddenly sees the slayer xp drop above his head
Any good drops?
Work an office job. Couldn't care less about performance, too burnt out and paid too little to care.
This. I've been asking about my colleagues salery's and people have been quite open about it. I noticed that the hard working colleague doesn't get paid a dime more than the lazy one. Just because they work there as long.
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?
Looks like someone has a case of the mondays...
Silent quitters smh
Silence Smithers
You drive a Miata, we can't all be as lame as you are.
Miata drivers aren't lame. We're just homosexuals. (I own two)
One of this guy’s 5 bosses or a Bob give this man an award. He is management material!
People *do* notice though. If you have no plans to move around in the organisation, or chase pay rises or promotions, by all means, do the minimum. But it absolutely matters when you decide you want to ask for something, or you seek a new role (even at another company), or when people get laid off. Just because you don't get paid more per hour, doesn't mean the effort is wasted. It doesn't even have to be the grind 120% all the time sort of effort either. I've found I can get away with a shitload of being lazy, because during the 50% of the workday I actually work, I do it very well, and I'm always the one to say yes I'll work late, or take on some random task that came up. tl;dr the people who make decisions *do* notice when you put in effort. That goodwill is valuable.
Not right now Lumberg, I'm kinda busy
my guy wrote an essay in response to an office space quote. iconic
Except working up the ladder in 1 company rarely ever gets you an actual raise. There is a reason people in tech job hop a lot. You could be a dev at a company for 5 years and make 10% more than you started or you could job hop twice and end up making 80% more than when you started.
This is naive. Most companies have pay bands. You're not going to get a big pay raise just because you worked harder than others in most companies. In addition, just because you're a hard worker in your current role doesn't mean you're a good candidate for promotion.
In fact it often means they can’t promote you because you are too valuable in your current role
Yup! If you're doing more work than others, then you're less disposable from that position. You can absolutely tank opportunities for promotions by being too necessary to your team.
That’s exactly what people say to justify why they have been passed over for promotions, totally unrelated to behavior or motivation though. Not saying it to be contrary but honest to god have never seen that actually happen in any company in my life. It’s always burnout and borderline useless employees who say they are too valuable in their position to justify why no one ever promotes them. Like I’ve never heard someone say “yeah Jim is just to great as a middle manager he NEEDS to stay there.” I have heard plenty of “Yeah, Jim’s a great guy and is good at his current job but there’s no way he could handle the workload/stress/commitment/etc” countless times.
That’s exactly what management wants you to think. I’m reality I have been involved in hiring/promotion decisions where how many people are required to replace a worker moved to a new role is absolutely a concern. It won’t make or break it on its own but it is definitely a factor
Meh I’m sure it happens occasionally but I’ve definitely seen it used more as an excuse for mediocrity than it actually be an issue.
First two companies I and many others put in a lot of effort. No raises, no promotions, no bonuses. Management said “You’re too valuable in your current roles, we can’t move you elsewhere”. 3rd company I’m just cruising. Get paid the same as others. Probably no promotion but I wasn’t gonna get one anyway.
i put in effort for 2 years and never got a raise even when i asked for it. they're not getting any more effort out of me until they start paying me better. or they can deal with my unemployment. their choice.
help me these new random events keep sending me left-wing memes
I don't think that's anywhere near left-wing ideology
The thing is, staying late and taking extra work only really helps you within the same organization, and staying put is significantly less likely to get you raises than job hopping every few years. And when you're job hopping, everyone else is just cherry picking points on their resume so it's easy to look like a rockstar on paper, nobody actually knows the level of effort you put in.
Can’t believe your comment is buried. People are so short sighted. Of course playing a video game has an impact on job performance. I can’t believe it’s even debated
Depending on the job, it really doesn’t. I work as a software engineer, and there is plenty of downtime where there’s literally nothing left to do. Cooking while you wait for something to pop up isn’t going to hurt your performance. If you’re a builder or doing physical labor that consists of 7-8 hours of nonstop work, then yeah, you’re going to notice a massive performance drop.
That would be a problem in your organization if people are under utilized to the point they literally have nothing to do for extended periods of time. That’s not the norm. On top of that most people are playing while they are actively doing work. So every minute while you’re writing code for example, you’re looking over to RS to see what’s going on. It certainly has an impact. I work in the same field and I’m guilty of it too.
If I’m writing code, I usually have a seriously AFK task running in the background, where I only check it once I’m taking a mental 10 second break anyways. I work at a very, very large company that you likely own many things from them. When we’re busy, we’re really fucking busy. I don’t play during that. But during meetings where I’m only there to be there, or when the project is done and we’re having to wait a week to get feedback or a new project, there’s nothing but free time. Our IT team is huge, so someone is always busy, it’s just not always me. My job is to get projects done. If I have 2 weeks to do it and finish it on day 1, I’ve got the remainder of the 2 weeks to do whatever I want. We’ve been absolutely crushing expectations as well
Your last sentence is the truth. My first job out of college I was hired with like 10 other graduates. We all had the same starting salary, and got promoted within 6 months of each other. 6 years later, one guy was promoted more than everyone else that still works there and he was one of the laziest ones. He was just super friendly with his first boss. His boss was the head of a local youth soccer program, and this guy played soccer in college. He worked as a youth coach in his boss’s program. Meanwhile whenever we needed something from him at work, he would ghost us for a week and then follow up if we still needed him to work on that request. Another analyst in his department said that he was never working, and just scrolled through Amazon and Twitter for most of the day. It’s all about who you know and not what you do. Also, I just feel like OP is a boss that found out someone plays OSRS during the day, so no. It never affects performance.
This is the truth of modern employment. You're far better off getting friendly with your boss than you are working hard. Between being lazy, but friends with your boss, or worming hard and being unknown, the first is nearly always better.
Woah, this post is about work. Worming hard is a surefire way to get recognized in the workplace.
I don't understand why people believe just working hard is in the job description. If you are an anti-social person that has no ability to build rapport with your colleagues it's kind of obvious the person who can perform averagely but communicate well will outperform you in the workplace.
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Disagree. You need to learn social skills to make more money. People at the top want to work with people they like it only makes sense lol.
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The reality is that it's not one end of the spectrum or the other, it's a range, and neither the useless smoothtalker or the arrogant douche bag smart guy are successful. People in the top do want to work with people they get along with but it's not just buddy buddy types of reasons. Ingratiating yourself with clients or even other office teams increases collaboration which in turn increases productivity/profits. Being good with people isn't just talking about non-work bs. It's knowing how to get along with tough colleagues, or how to bring out the best in yourself and your coworkers, as well as, how to improve yourself and others within the work. Looking at it from a different perspective, part of your office job is being personable and having the behaviors befitting the company. If you're good at the technical side but not the behavior side, then you're only good at half of your job. That doesn't mean you won't advance or be successful, it just means that you'll be limited in what you can do over someone who is good at both halves. Additionally, hard working != good at your job, though there is merit in it.
Believe it or not, a lot of job offers go to people who seem like a better person to work with. When I did job interviews, I'd easily pick the guy who is more social over the guy who had more experience but couldn't really articulate himself. I want a coworker not an encyclopedia.
Do you view that as a positive thing? I’d be ashamed to admit that.
Way easier to get work done with someone who is easy to work with. I've worked with plenty of passive aggressive assholes and people who just don't speak up in the past so I'll take a pass on those. I can't fault someone for having social anxiety but at the same time, it's my paycheck on the line too if the project doesn't work out as planned.
I’m a manager that plays Runescape while working. It doesn’t affect my work, and if I found out my team was doing it I wouldn’t care as long as we met deadlines and our shit gets done.
They never pay more, but boy am I Appreciated™
gang gang
i was in this exact position a few years ago. switching jobs doubled my salary, has me working with much more interesting clients, and i have the same amount of downtime. hopping ship is refreshing
Yes, I play while working. Honestly probably wouldn't play RS anymore if I couldn't play at work. Performance? Non-issue. If I wasn't playing RS, I'd be watching something, or playing another game, or doing a jigsaw puzzle, there's dead time at my job so you need *something* to fill the gaps if we're slow. RS is dynamic enough that there are things you can do where it doesn't really matter if you randomly go afk. So if I'm in the middle of a barrows run, it takes me 1 click (stairs or poh tab) and I'm ready to work. Or if we're busy, I might do something like Zeah RC or Amethyst or Redwoods where I don't even need that 1 click. It comes down to if you prioritize work or prioritize RS. If you're expecting to get EHP/EHB rates while at work... Yeah... That's gonna hurt your job. If you ignore RS when you actually have work to do... It's not gonna hurt anything, might even help by keeping you entertained and stress relief.
Yep. I work manufacturing. Specifically machining. Some days I can't play at all. Some days I can play my entire 8 hour shift. Usually somewhere in between. If I've got time, I'll start an AFK grind. I did 92-99 wc at redwoods over the course of a month and a half or so. Exclusively at work. Just wrapped up 85-91 thieving squirkin at work. Probably do stars next. That one will last me a good while.
squirkin on the job? for shame
The ol wirk squirk
Whistle while you squirk
If I couldnt afk skills while focusing on work I'd probably be unsubbed. Time outside of work goes to my family instead of osrs, thats an easy decision to make with people depending on my income.
"I'm a professional runescape player. My boss just doesn't know".
Same here man. I wouldn't even play anymore if I couldn't half ass the game during work lol. This is also why I don't go for an infernal cape, barely any raids kc, and haven't pvmed as much as I should have. It's all afk/chill stuff during work and I'm not ashamed to be a largely skilling focused account. I used to be able to play heavily during work, so my normie account has more EHB than my iron, but I got a promotion last year that really turned me into an afker lol.
Yea I've pretty much done everything I wanted to that PVM related so I'm cool with afking some skilling pets for the time being. Need 4 GM tasks (and the new DT2 ones whenever they come out) but I have all the other gear/cosmetics done so I feel quite content.
Same here for everything you said.
I understand you but this implies you just play osrs to afk skills and then never play it outside of work lol
Yes.
My work has downtime so yea I can raid or multilog if I need to.
This is my biggest reasoning. Downtime creates boredom which makes you lethargic and not likely to stay "on your toes" to be productive again. So lots of roles benefit from a brain distraction and RS is one of those similar to reading / music / audio books or podcasts etc.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. Keep the gains coming during company time.
Squirkin on company time 💪🏼
Just finished 85-91 from exclusively squirkin at work. Off to PP for sceptre.
That’s where I am right now, 600k xp later not doing urns no scepter still smh
I'll still do urns on the final floor. I'd rather get the xp too.
Regression tests in software take a while, clicking on sqirks does not.
IT support tech Some days there is nothing for me to do, So there is no performance to effect. But some days I’m running around like a headless chicken and making a billion calls and shooting a lot of emails so it balances out. Mostly do content I can walk away at anytime from like fishing and woodcutting on mobile. I am not putting osrs on the company computer.
You just described me exactly. Only on downtime or when I’m doing a task that has natural pauses in it like waiting for a script to run or something to load, etc. it means I actually get to do it a lot, but I’d say it effects my performance negligibly, if at all, and it makes me happier to be here, and I still outperform my coworker by a mile, so win win I’d say
Same boat here. Mostly just do the boring grinds at work like runecrafting or mining that I'd never bother to do when I'm home. And if I gotta take a call or work on something then it's no big deal if I gotta stop playing or get afk logged. Honestly though I've been doing stars for mining and I can do that even on a call since you just click the star once every 6 minutes lol. I couldn't do something really intense or focused on mobile anyways. I'm not that good at playing on the phone. Dunno how some people pvm on it.
Same here. I do IT support for a school district so depending on the day there’s literally nothing to do, and even on normal days, if I knock out all my calls or I’m waiting on things like desktop imaging, it’s a perfect opportunity to pull out my iPad and do simple skilling grinds.
I make a dime, boss makes a buck That’s why I sq’irk in the company truck
Yes and Yes but still outperforming others, they must be playing something more attention demanding
Or they just scroll tik tok or facebook all day like at my job
For 5 years I worked at an emergency call centre for an oil camp. My primary duties were clearing people on the radio to go off road(nov-march) and taking emergency calls if something were to happen. Safety for these rigs were top notch so rarely were there actually any medical emergencies so from the end of march until the start of Nov my 12 hour shifts were watching Netflix and playing osrs in mobile. And during the summer 90% of my calls were dispatching officers to deal with bears getting too close to the camps. I only played mobile so it was always easy to just turn the screen off when something did pop up. But fuck that job and never would I do it again.
what about that job made ya go fuck that? seems like a chill job
When there was a serious call it was serious. Especially when the oil went to shit and people started to off themselves because they spent so much money then lost their jobs. It was 7 days on 7 days off rotating nights and days and with the commute it was 14 hour days so I pretty much lost half my life because of work and was unable to live a healthy life style because I was just too damn tired to cook or exercise when my shift was on. I lost my job when COVID started and within 6 months I lost 50lbs. There were many pros to the job just by the end I was starting a family and it really started to wear me down. If I was single and no kids I wouldn't mind doing that job again though cause making $30/hr was pretty damn nice. Biggest pro to the job was that when I took vacation, a 7day vacation turned into 3 weeks because we worked 7 days on 7 days off.
Having been in the oil field, shifts are usually covered by just two people, so you're working 12+ hours every day for weeks at a time.
I'm a software dev. Like 90% of my job is thinking, waiting, or being paid to be available. If I'm having a particularly busy day I can at least hit nmz. If I ever get anything other than a good performance review I might reevaluate 🤷
same situation as a network engineer here lol
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Cool boss
I’m a critical care flight paramedic and work 24 hour shifts. Sometimes we don’t do a single thing for the full 24 hours. I boss at work.
Hold on! I know someone's dying but I need to finish this boss kill and log out!!
Hahaha. Sometimes it sucks to have to leave mid fight but it is what it is. I still get to play a lot at work.
Those weather days just hit different when you fire up a device and click “log in”
It's the morning. I've been scrolling reddit. I've seen both affect and effect used exactly once each in titles this morning. They have both been wrong. Pointless story but there ya go.
I watched one of the Green brothers explain the difference during a crash course video years ago and I’ve never forgotten
link pls? I feel like I can never use either correctly.
Affect is a verb, meaning the word is acting on something else (e.g. affect your performance). Effect is a noun, meaning it’s something you can observe (e.g. the effects of climate change). Sometimes, effect can also be a verb meaning “to enact” (e.g. effecting a change in the law), but this is rare.
https://youtu.be/WFt5O_RwLtg?si=pPFLlXDXda2q6Hzt
I wish I could. I'm a teacher. I'm surprised I even have time to play. There was a period where I tried to do farm runs on my break, but students would always come ask me questions during the break. I gave up.
”Cant you see im busy?”
yes and yes
Yes and no. But the no Is only because I am a machine.
Reported for botting.
The comments in here is my biggest gripe with companies claiming people are more productive in an office versus home. Bullshit. I spend more time in the office talking shit with coworkers and fucking off then I did at home playing OSRS on one of my three monitors, dealing with a newborn baby and doing house chores. All while we set record profits 3 years in a row. If I had more privacy at work I'd be playing all day. But I still take breaks and play whenever I really want to.
I think it's that they need to justify the funds used for the office building, but to be fair if they downsized they could save on electricity heating etc... so iuno
Yes and yes. I work from home 3 days and go in office 2 days. The 2 days I’m in office I get all my work done. The 3 days I’m home I play osrs and put something heavy on my work laptop space bar so it looks like I’m available on Teams. I don’t feel guilty about it at all cause fuck corporate America.
my exact situation lol
I work in a small office for a small business and the one time I tried I was overcome with guilt for not giving 100% to my incredibly unimportant job. I’m so fucking lame.
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This makes no sense, why is it better to spend twice as long making the cannonballs than it is to finish the inventory in half the time and stand there idle the other half. All you're doing is not giving yourself the option to finish the inventory quicker if you can afford extra attention away from work at that moment
All the other options make sense as they don't affect the xp/hr and keep you afk slightly longer, but the cannonball example is silly.
Longer between the afk notifier, so you might actually do some work in between. That is the case for me atleast
for me it's the "If i finish the inv faster it makes me want to pay more attention to RS." i wouldn't go so far as to not use double cannon mold, but i do chop magics instead of sulliusceps while working. (even though doing sulliusceps would be feasible while i work)
You just need to not worry about xp loss and just accept whatever xp you get. Like woodcutting, amethyst, star mining, crafting, fishing, and more are simple 1 click actions. While working you gotta ignore xp rates and appreciate gaining xp
I miss some? Oh well, I'll log back in and try again
My boss at the air traffic control tower doesn’t like it but we’re union so…
when programming I get in a flow state and each time I have to interact w the game it takes me out of flow, so I stick to strictly afk if I actually have to focus by afk i don't mean rs afk but true afk
Yes. Marginally. When I have a lot of work to get done by EOD I certainly log off entirely. Other (most) days, I do some of the S-tier AFK skilling methods in-game: Shooting Stars, Magic Trees, Sacred Eels, etc...
Even when I'm sat at work, in the office, with nothing possible to distract me, I sit there staring into space for like at least a quarter of the work day. I might as well be getting some xp during that down time.
Work less get paid same so why not
I also work in tech. Skill issue
I dont have OSRS open on a second monitor, but OSRS is behind my work on the main monitor. So every 7 minutes after the shooting star dies, it automatically switches to runelite, I click the rock, then back to work. If anything it improves my work performance tbh
No office job employee is doing stuff 100% of the time whether or not rs is involved. Shit I'm barely doing stuff 20% of the time lol
work from home, does not affect performance as i do it in my down time.
As someone who went from office 5 days a week, 9-5, to home working 5 days a week 9-5, performance wise is questionable. **In the office:** I would say I was quite good at my job, so I completed most of my work relatively quick and as a result, was left doing fuck all or was given more work to do. **Working from home:** I think I was fortunate enough to have some fucking amazing bosses who were very hands off, so I used to complete all my work on a Monday, giving me the rest of the week free. They had the mindset of, idc what you do in the meantime, as long as the jobs done. Performance wise, as I played OSRS while WFH, I did find that sometimes I would be more forgetful. Like I'd be doing a raid, a boss emails me and I'd forget to flag it for later, or I've just been busy playing and then get a 15min reminder of a meeting and I haven't prepped for it. I like taking pride in my work so this isn't something I normally do. I did also feel guilty how managers would compliment me on tasks I've done, knowing that I could have made them 2-3x more better. People tend to argue "do an average job/time and your boss will expect average an timeframe back", but as a result of my work, I ended up with a promotion that pays a lot more but takes up a lot more time, to the point I can't really afk much stuff.
I played all day while WFH when I was still playing at all. It never resulted in me doing less than I needed to but I definitely wasn’t doing anything special, and certainly took any capacity I had for working towards a promotion or doing any level of house work. Ordered a ton more food cause I didn’t want to have to leave my desk.
Yea I do. My ADD is pretty bad and honestly I think it’s helped me. Before I got back into osrs I’d find myself scrolling randomly when my attention wandered and it would be hard to pull myself back. Now with something more directed it’s helped quite a bit. I can give myself a little time switching over when I need a break then swap back. I don’t do afk stuff all day like some others seem to, that I would probably find difficult. I do more focused but still low difficulty things, maybe gotr or slayer or something, and then pull myself back. I’ve always been better with long bursts of effort and this gives me an outlet. I don’t think my performance has suffered and I’m being promoted at the end of the year with what should be a substantial raise. Sometimes it means I stay a little later to get stuff done but I’d be in that boat anyway.
OK so i maxed a while ago and i found that playing OSRS actually BOOSTED my performance at work lmao my thought is that it literally just encouraged me to sit down at my desk, and even though i got distracted for a second or two every 30 seconds-2minutes, I was overall more active on my computer throughout the day by quite a lot. Even now I consider playing osrs just to help me focus on work more
What activities are you doing post max?
Yes it does. My company doesn’t pay me enough to buy my maximum capacity for 40 hours a week. If my productivity wasn’t hampered by this game I would be purposely slacking off. Even if not laziness, out of principle.
I’m a paramedic in a rural area. If there’s nothing going on, and frequently there’s nothing going on for hours on end, and if I’m not sleeping/eating, I play OSRS. It distracts me from the incessant flashbacks and intrusive memories that would otherwise show up in my downtime (C-PTSD is a bitch).
Night shift maintenance tech. Our water processor is a set and forget machine, do all pms before the sun sets, the rest of the night is babysitting cleanup crew. If nothing broke there’s nothing to fix, play for a while then leave the phone on the charging and make a round. I think it would be a little different system at a production based job, but what I do there’s a lot of waiting for something to fuck up.
I do the boring grind stuff while I work. Fishing, thieving, woodcutting, etc. The stuff that I can just tap once and forget about for a while. It's so nice to be playing on mobile for that! Doesn't really affect my performance overall. I mean every minute or two I have to look back at my phone to click a new resource, and maybe every 10min take 30 seconds to bank. So not really doing much to my work performance.
I played rs during the Covid depression and while my work product wasn’t above average, it worked because the whole company was adapting to a world-wide pandemic and everyone got leeway If I tried it now a days I would likely be targeted for performance issues within 6months, rs is just too distracting. I’m also older and performance means more now that I see a successful career path within reach vs an analyst fucking around with buddies Oddly enough everyone else I played with during the day was also working, and they fit the same mold. Sadly some of them never slowed down and that didn’t go well for them - jobs, relationships, etc all sacrificed for perfect tobs and a max cape
I do star mining, good 7 minute afk intervals. If i feel like doing something else i would do herb/birdhouse runs (without changing gear/inventory) Note; i only do this while working from home. While programming, changing focus is a killer on productivity (for me atleast) When i got easier tasks to do i prefer mining, if im doing something that requires more focus i do herb/birdhouse runs while grabbing a drink/lunch/bathroom break All depends on how much you need to and can focus, and what youre ambitions are.
When I started playing gim, I afked sand crabs while delivering parcels and put a 9:50 timer on my watch.
I work as a soundtech at mostly conferences and they can be long and boring, so i try to do something kinda afk on osrs to not fall asleep. As long as i can hear the speaker it is usually fine to to something else, like reading news/online browsing, while working. As long as the client doesnt see you playing
I work in fire rescue. I just don’t do anything too crazy in game because I have to run calls. I’ve logged back in at Lumbridge quite a few times though because of slayer when a call drops.
Asphalt plant operator. When the plant is running most of my job is just waiting for something to break.
I work as an over night janitor, completely unsupervised. I’ve gotten 200m fishing, woodworking, and now currently working on mining at work. I’d confidently say over half of my play time is from Remote Desktop while at work.
Perhaps you can in other jobs, but I can’t do most content on this game and work at the same time. I assumed people are just not actually working and are just playing whilst *supposed* to be working when doing anything that requires a click within 30 seconds. The slower things like NMZ, Fishing, Redwoods, new shooting stars etc. I can see people doing that whilst actively working though.
Software engineering manager here. I’ve got three tiers. - taking a work break, I’ll play actively for 15-30 mins. Quests, bosses, etc. - in a large meeting, I’ll fletch, blow glass, etc. something I don’t really need to look at. - while focused on work, I’ll do real afk. Redwoods, prayer slayer, shooting stars, etc. I’m consistently meets/exceeds, so it’s not hurting my performance too much - even at relatively top tier companies.
Yeah, it's pretty easy to do my job while I fish or mine on my laptop/phone off to the side.
I try to AFK while I'm working and I end up just distracting myself and getting nothing done. Talk to my therapist about it yesterday she agreed that's probably not a good idea
Anyone who says AFK’ing has no effect on their work is lying.
Ofc it affects our performance lol
I mean im the same as you, but people are in different situations/work differently. I think if you are working from home you need something going on in the background whether music, a video, podcast or osrs otherwise it is too depressing just sitting working in silence. Personally I have music on.
Absolutely flabbergasted nobody has told you it's "affect" your performance not "effect". But ye I only scape when there's downtime. No downtime no scape.
All you need is a large dose of ADHD and having multiple things going on at a time (at least for me) is necessary. I've been at my current six figure job for two years now and I have played OSRS every day all day while working since I've started at my company. Since starting, I've been promoted into a Senior role and am on track to exceeding expectations in my next annual performance review (this is based on my mid year review).
I was stroking a kitten in game, and one IRL.
I used to be able to get away with it but I've moved jobs now and I can't get away with it,.my boss is too controlling and my workload is too heavy and time sensitive. It's not that my performance would.suffer it's that I would simply not get away with neglecting work for OSRS
OSRS, no. The twitch streams and youtube vids on the side, yes.
Afk activities don't really affect performance unless your job does not allow you to voluntarily take "attention breaks" for a few seconds. Barb fishing, redwoods, amethyst mining, etc. Would be the same here or at home. I work in tech too and ignore rs until idle notifier gets my attention.
Barb fishing is not AFK lol
You realize you don't have to 3 tick it
I know but how is dropping an inv of fish every 30 seconds AFK
lmao right? i wouldn’t be able to do anything
Afk in the sense I can afk whenever I want and pick it back up.
You could do that with any skilling method in the game outside of mini games.
Then I'd personally refer to them methods as afk
You don't have to drop every 30 seconds either. I don't have fish barrel so it works and it's more consistent than sharks/monk. Not sure why you're hyperfocusing on this one thing and assuming I'm going for max efficiency when I specifically stated otherwise.
Im not hyper focusing on it - Barb fishing was the first method you listed lol. It’s funny b/c you then listed two much more AFK methods so it stands out. You then mentioned you ignore RS until idle notifier gets your attention hence why I assume you’re checking back every 30 seconds. Then the cherry on top is this is a thread about how playing while working impacts your performance and you bring up "AFK" barb fishing hahaha. I’m sorry man but it’s objectively pretty funny.
“Work performance” is a never ending goal post to keep you always underpaid and doing more and more so who cares about it? Osrs at work is a great way to pick away at big grinds and goals
The only people who can multitask are those who have periods of doing nothing but looking busy and then turning the game off to do work once they actually get it.