Are you stuck at work during WEGs? Me too! I am a responsible employee, so I spent yesterday working and NOT beta testing the various methods suggested below to engage in workplace WEG viewing. The techniques below are all theoretical and should NOT be attempted by anyone who wishes to remain employed.
First thing’s first. Check the WEG schedule and check worldtimeserver.com to find out exactly when you need to employ one of these strategies. There’s nothing worse than setting yourself up to slack only to find out that you misjudged the time. Once you’ve determined when the action is taking place in your local timezone, settle on a method.
Option 1: Call In Sick
This is a classic technique which allows for maximum enjoyment and uninterrupted WEG viewing. I would suggest that this method is only used if you can pull off a convincing “I am sick” voice. The less detail you provide to your boss, the better. This method is risky especially for those that are prone to the 24-hour, Fridays only disease known as “horse show flu”.
Option 2: Be brazen about it
If you have a desk job and either sufficient authority in your workspace or brass ones, just pull up the live stream and watch! If your computer monitor is large enough, you can adjust your web browser to the size of the video and pop it in the corner of your screen. This way you can have a spreadsheet open and pretend to work on your TPS reports. Those with less status may find the option of streaming to your smartphone placed next to your monitor a viable solution as well.
Option 3: “Taco Night”
A hybrid between the first two options, this method involves a bit more planning and a taco dinner the evening before or at least talking about having had tacos to your coworkers. Be sure to check the ride times and plan your viewing accordingly. When the rider you want to see is up, quietly retreat to the bathroom.
Your coworkers will assume you are on a Taco-Induced Time Out. Once securely in the bathroom, you have a few moments to watch the WEGs. I strongly recommend watching on mute, especially in the instance of shared bathrooms with stalls.
Stash some EarPods in your pocket if you must have the commentary on the feed. This method can probably buy you 8-15 minutes at a time, which in addition to an hours lunch and two 15 minute breaks in an eight hour work day is almost two hours of WEG viewing!
Again, it should be stated that you will probably get written up and maybe even fired for any of the above options should you get caught. The author and EN in no way condone the use of any of these strategies and only share them in a strictly theoretical way and because we’d like to hear your strategies for WEG viewing on the sly!
