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    Making someone remember to lock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Got an intern who enjoys spending a lot of time on Facebook and doesn't get much work done between that and Youtube music videos/Guild war 2 trailers


    Tried subtle suggestions, hints, the odd light frape, the repeated light frape, the computerunlocked.com rick astley (and brokeback mountain) and changing passwords

    He still keeps leaving his machine unlocked!

    Any other strong suggestions?
    Last edited by finlay666; 06-03-2012 at 12:53 PM.
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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Go all-out on the fraping.

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Put a Pedobear theme on his desktop.

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Put some Massive filth as a background?.

    Or just lock him out of his system... force the system to require a new password to be used to gain access or something?
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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    I once changed a friends start up and system sounds for audio files from a porn site for people of an *ahem* "alternative lifestyle" because he left his laptop unattended in the pub and went home... Then hid said files fairly deviously.

    When I returned the laptop to him in my local I said he should probably boot it up as it'd taken a knock on the taxi ride over...

    He was less than impressed, but funnily enough he set up a password and generally kept track of where he left the laptop much better after that

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    Got an intern who enjoys spending a lot of time on Facebook and doesn't get much work done between that and Youtube music videos/Guild war 2 trailers


    Tried subtle suggestions, hints, the odd light frape, the repeated light frape, the computerunlocked.com rick astley (and brokeback mountain) and changing passwords

    He still keeps leaving his machine unlocked!

    Any other strong suggestions?
    fire him

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Er making someone remember to lock their computer you mean? Don't want to find you've negatively reinforced them the wrong way round.

    How about:
    Last edited by sammyc; 05-03-2012 at 08:54 PM.

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Set it up so it locks after 1 min


    Oh and he needs a "chat" about his attitude.

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Easy, send an email to his boss

    "
    Dear Boss

    I'm a moron who fails to understand even the basics of corporate computer security and deserve to have a verbal or written warning for my conduct. As such, please can we arrange a meeting at your earliest convience to discuss.

    Yours

    Small-penis moron"

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    This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Screenshot the desktop. Then hide all icons in a folder somewhere. Hide task bar and set screen shot as wallpaper. No amount of restarts will help! Classic :-p

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Quote Originally Posted by blueball View Post
    Set it up so it locks after 1 min
    i had the same thought, screensaver with password to unlock job done.

    on the other hand just report the time waster and get shut.

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    off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    What you mean he hasn't been hoff'd yet?


    That was the result of leaving my PC unattended for barely 30 seconds at one lan.....and Alex disabled my ability to change my background at the same time....

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    Any other strong suggestions?
    Want my 'user can never re-set wallpaper or homepage in firefox,chrome,IE' device driver

    On a side note, the LANs coming up.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    I presume he's all ready kept offering to buy the whole office lunch via email?

    Secondly, lock him out of his own facebook account and tell him that he can only have access again after a week of not forgetting to lock the computer.
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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    With these suggestions the intern is going to resign before the day is up....

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    Re: Making someone remember to unlock their computer through negative reinforcement

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    What you mean he hasn't been hoff'd yet?


    That was the result of leaving my PC unattended for barely 30 seconds at one lan.....and Alex disabled my ability to change my background at the same time....
    Hoff'd, Brokeback mountain, Rickrolled... that was just today

    I'm running out of ideas!
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