Basecamp BS - How to deal with a clueless non-technical manager that insists you log every last second of your day in Basecamp.

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Basecamp BS

How to deal with a clueless non-technical manager that insists you log every last second of your day in Basecamp.

I used this for a few weeks to randomly fill in Basecamp time logs to free up time to actually do my job. He was actually commented how satisfied he was with the level of detail I was logging. Since he didn't catch on on his own, I finally explained it was all random scripted nonsense to prove the point that micro time-management serves no purpose. He never brought up time logging again

basecampbs.sh

tasks1[1]="technical"
tasks1[2]="project"
tasks1[3]="scripting"
tasks1[4]="server"
tasks1[5]="security"
tasks1[6]="workstation"
tasks1[7]="API"
tasks1[8]="hardware"
tasks1[9]="database"
tasks1[10]="filesystem"
tasks1[11]="cluster"
tasks1[12]="log"
tasks1[13]="vulnerability"
tasks1[14]="php"
tasks1[15]="java"
tasks1[16]="lua"
tasks1[17]="python"
tasks1[18]="django"
tasks1[19]="mysql"
tasks1[20]="postgresql"
tasks1[21]="bash"

tasks2[1]="optimization"
tasks2[2]="assesment"
tasks2[3]="evaluation"
tasks2[4]="monitoring"
tasks2[5]="upgrades"
tasks2[6]="experimentation"
tasks2[7]="research"
tasks2[8]="implementation"
tasks2[8]="consulting"

dividers[1]="and"
dividers[2]="and some"
dividers[3]="and a little bit of"
dividers[4]="/"
dividers[5]="and a lot of"
dividers[6]="with some"
dividers[7]="with plenty of"
dividers[8]="&"

times[1]="8"
times[2]="8.5"
times[3]="9"
times[4]="9.5"
times[5]="10"
times[6]="10.5"

RANDOM=$(od -N 1 /dev/urandom | awk '{ print $2 }')
task1="${tasks1[$((RANDOM %= $((${#tasks1[@]}))))]} ${tasks2[$((RANDOM %= $((${#tasks2[@]}))))]}"
RANDOM=$(od -N 1 /dev/urandom | awk '{ print $2 }')
task2="${tasks1[$((RANDOM %= $((${#tasks1[@]}))))]} ${tasks2[$((RANDOM %= $((${#tasks2[@]}))))]}"

until [ "$task1" != "$task2" ]; do
  RANDOM=$(od -N 1 /dev/urandom | awk '{ print $2 }')
  task1="${tasks1[$((RANDOM %= $((${#tasks1[@]}))))]} ${tasks2[$((RANDOM %= $((${#tasks2[@]}))))]}"
done

RANDOM=$(od -N 1 /dev/urandom | awk '{ print $2 }')
time="${times[$((RANDOM %= $((${#times[@]}))))]}"

until [ -n "$time" ]; do
  RANDOM=$(od -N 1 /dev/urandom | awk '{ print $2 }')
  time="${times[$((RANDOM %= $((${#times[@]}))))]}"
done

# https://github.com/konklone/basecamper
track log $time "$task1 ${dividers[$((RANDOM %= $((${#dividers[@]}))))]} $task2"