AppleScript is good for at least two things, then.
I know someone who worked at a draconian agency that kept tabs on their employees' arrival and departure times by forcing them to sign-in with a networked time management app. My friend used AppleScript to automate the process and kicked it off with a slight random variation in time daily. This way, he would take a one hour later ferry, arrive to work a mere ten minutes late with coffee in hand and claim he had just run over to Starbucks and had actually been there early. Going home at day's end, he left work 10 minutes early to catch the ferry back, because the next scheduled ferry was about 1.5 hours later. He eventually moved on to a better job and never did get busted, having shaved a mere 20 minutes off work but about 2.5 hours off travel time every day.
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I know someone who worked at a draconian agency that kept tabs on their employees' arrival and departure times by forcing them to sign-in with a networked time management app. My friend used AppleScript to automate the process and kicked it off with a slight random variation in time daily. This way, he would take a one hour later ferry, arrive to work a mere ten minutes late with coffee in hand and claim he had just run over to Starbucks and had actually been there early. Going home at day's end, he left work 10 minutes early to catch the ferry back, because the next scheduled ferry was about 1.5 hours later. He eventually moved on to a better job and never did get busted, having shaved a mere 20 minutes off work but about 2.5 hours off travel time every day.
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