{"id":11821,"date":"2021-12-12T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2021-12-18T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T01:59:37","slug":"jiggle-jiggle-tinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/12\/jiggle-jiggle-tinkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiggle Jiggle Tinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/88gqgp\/mouse-mover-jiggler-app-keep-screen-on-active\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Vice<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workers Are Using \u2018Mouse Movers\u2019 So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe tables have turned in favor of the Worker,\u201d said one mouse jiggler company. \u201cThey are in power today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Samantha Cole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TUEu4ww4v38\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leah didn\u2019t expect her TikTok video about a work-from-home hack to go viral. She started using a mouse mover\u2014a small device placed under her computer mouse, to keep the cursor active\u2014after her job as a business lead in advertising transitioned to remote work at the start of the pandemic. Her company-issued computer set her status to \u201caway\u201d whenever she stopped moving her cursor or got up from her desk for more than a few seconds, and with three kids at home who needed help doing remote classes during school lockdowns, that little \u201caway\u201d signal was driving her nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWorking remotely, your colleagues can&#8217;t physically \u2018see\u2019 when you get up to go to the bathroom or grab lunch. Or even take 30 minutes to reset on the couch,\u201d Leah told me. \u201cThe last thing I wanted during those moments was to be paranoid that people thought I wasn&#8217;t working\u2014especially since I felt like I was working more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/88gqgp\/mouse-mover-jiggler-app-keep-screen-on-active\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Vice<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vice Workers Are Using \u2018Mouse Movers\u2019 So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace \u201cThe tables have turned in favor of the Worker,\u201d said one mouse jiggler company. \u201cThey are in power today.\u201d By Samantha Cole Leah didn\u2019t expect her TikTok video about a work-from-home hack to go viral. She started using a mouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}