The "boss button"

[cookiepuss]

Just last year American businesses lost an estimated $1.2 billion in worker productivity during the NCAA tournament, mostly during its first two days. And that was before the internet feed was as widely available or as high of quality as it will be this year.

So this could be a milestone year when the tournament’s early rounds go from a shared screw-off venture – people crowded into bars and huddled into break rooms – to a solo one with everyone quiet in their cubicles.

The good folks who run this thing have even programmed a “boss button” which allows the worker watching whether George Mason can upset Notre Dame to, with a single keystroke, dump the screen when their supervisor comes by looking for their TPS report.
The full article (http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=dw-amtourney031708&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)

[TAL]

Welcome to computer games from the 80s.

[bigblu89]

Every "boss button" I've ever seen always launches some excel spreadsheet.

At my job, my boss would be more skeptical of me with a spreadsheet in front of me, than a video feed of a basketball game.

[hpdrifter]

Wow. That's hilarious. I didn't have time this year to do much research and did my bracket based on the most macro predictions. Oh well, it'll still be fun.

[p-branez]

the spreadsheet is suspect, it's pretty obvious what it is.
but being able to watch the games online is great.

[BangkokB]

I want a "Boss Button" that makes their floor drop from where their standing into an oaf of Crocodiles
While Phil Collins "Sussidio" Plays so the last thing they here is that garbage as a gator rips them from one end to the other