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Speaker 1: There's something called task masking, right that everybody's not everybody,

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Speaker 1: but you know somebody's are talking about and apparently it's

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Speaker 1: a new workplace term. Yeah, so think about where you're

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Speaker 1: going to work this morning, where you work right now?

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Speaker 1: Do you know any of these people? What are they?

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Speaker 2: They're task maskers?

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: So it's basically when an employee spends a lot of

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Speaker 3: time and effort just trying to look like they're really

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Speaker 3: busy or trying to look like they're working really hard,

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Speaker 3: when in reality they're hardly doing anything at all.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me, that's tups. What are you doing over

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Speaker 1: there in your computer exactly right now? Like what are

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Speaker 1: you looking at? They tell me, don't don't change it,

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Speaker 1: you just change just closed your window. Oh, he's following

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Speaker 1: along the he's following along. What do you call that?

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Speaker 1: The digital levels of the show as it's being broadcast.

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Speaker 2: Nice masking.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's also sometimes on llobean dot com.

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Speaker 2: What is that?

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Speaker 1: That's where he buys his clothing, his hiking gear. Oh,

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Speaker 1: for he and his jiu jitsu girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: So that's one of the things.

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Speaker 3: Really, it's being on your laptop or your computer and

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Speaker 3: typing a little bit loud, walking fast through the hallways

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Speaker 3: holding your laptop.

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Speaker 2: Just like you know, just like you're you're just you

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Speaker 2: can't be stopped.

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Speaker 3: You're sing, You're you're on the go, you are calling friends,

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Speaker 3: but you're using like the business line or using business

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Speaker 3: handjesters when you're on the call.

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Speaker 2: But it's really like you're just talking to your mom.

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Speaker 1: Have we ever done any of this here? I mean

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Speaker 1: here or anywhere else?

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Speaker 3: There are days that I maybe make myself look busier

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Speaker 3: so that I'm not stopped or bothered.

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Speaker 1: This is not even a temptation for me. I can't

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Speaker 1: get work done fast enough. I'm never going to take

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Speaker 1: my time to do something else while I'm working. Could

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Speaker 1: be done with it sooner.

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Speaker 2: Never, no temptation, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 3: But I do have a tendency to walk through the

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Speaker 3: office very quickly and not really like stopping.

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Speaker 1: But it's not all the rest. You're trying to get

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Speaker 1: people to think you're busy.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not because I'm It's because I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: get my taxes. Do you have a hard footstep? We

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Speaker 3: can hear you coming. You know, I've always had that

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Speaker 3: ever since I was a kid. I don't know why.

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Speaker 3: I just walk hard and I my posture is bad too.

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Speaker 2: I need to work on that.

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Speaker 1: Well, mine's the worst ever. I just I can't even

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Speaker 1: deal with it. Do you ever pretend to be on

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Speaker 1: the phone and you're not.

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Speaker 3: No, but maybe I haven't, not at work, but I

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Speaker 3: feel like I have for whatever reasons.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've done that before that, I have done task masking.

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Speaker 1: Point them out today. If youve seen me at the office,

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Speaker 1: just go task masking.