Every morning my machine dutifully booted up, logged in, signed in at precisely 9AM and made sure it showed I was available and active throughout the day until it was "time to go home."

Heh, an old coworker was doing that manually back when we were at office that had a tool tracks how much time we spend at office and shows that on an internal webpage. He was logging a perfect 8:00 average at the end of the month because it was such a stupid system