At my previous place of work office hours were ridiculous. It was a software company and my boss was sucked. He would give us work right around 5:30PM (right when it was time to go home) and made us finish the job until past 11:00PM (way past our ideal productive hours). Or he would find annoying problems in code that was still in progress.
So I made a batch file and a script that would turn my computer OFF at a random time between 7:00PM and 8:00PM. It had a 1 minute timer just in case I would stay after hours and needed to abort the shutdown process.
But I would leave my desk before 5:00PM so he couldn't find me to keep me if he wanted to dump crap around checkout time. If he came to my desk and see my computer on, he would think I was still around the pantry area or at the nearby minimart to grab some chips or something. But if it was off around that time, he would call my cell phone and tell me to get back to the office.
I also scheduled the BIOS on my machine to turn my machine ON around 8:00AM or 9:00AM in case I felt lazy and wanted to stroll in around 10:00AM or 11:00AM. If I got caught walking to my desk he would ask "where have you been all morning?" And I would say "I was at a meeting with the marketing team." or "I was out getting breakfast."
dumb dog
