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productivity throttling controls 

Security devices and configurations which inhibit or minimize employee productivity. Employee productivity may be impacted by limiting access to information, communication and computing functionality, as well as by limiting computing performance. Controls may block websites, may block communication channels such as IRC, may slow computing devices by using full-disk encryption, antivirus, and spyware, may break applications by performing man-in-the-middle attacks and by misconfiguring applications. For some employees, substantial effort may be expended to find workarounds to bypass controls.
Brenda: Why won’t IE open this site?
Tim: The productivity throttling controls are misconfigured to arbitrarily disable TLS connections in IE. Go into Tools and enable TLS connections.

The productivity throttling controls won’t allow Firefox to get a critical update that addresses a vulnerability. Now I need to download the update and manually install. What a waste of time.

My workstation is churning away because of having to scan the large email attachment that I received. Because of the productivity throttling controls, I am unable to even switch tabs in my web browser.

Bill: Websense is prohibiting me from downloading a library I need to complete this work.
Me: We’ll let customer wait another day for the deliverable while I bypass the productivity throttling controls by downloading the library at home tonight and supplying to you on a USB tomorrow.

captain productivity 

A person who spends the entire day in the pursuit of appearing to do work without actually achieving anything
Captain Productivity is still waiting for his document to print

Pussy Productivity 

A measure of one's sexual encounters in a given time frame.
Frenchie: Dude, since you've grown out the long locks the ladies have been flocking.

Blitz: Yea bra, my PUSSY PRODUCTIVITY has really skyrocketed.
Pussy Productivity by jjt009 February 27, 2011

Productivity Addict

A person who is addicted to gadgets, hacks, websites, and tools that could — in theory — make life more productive.
Kevin Rose is such a productivity addict, he owns so many gadgets and reads too many blogs.
Productivity Addict by hackaddict December 15, 2008

Coffee Shop Productivity 

The idea that if you do your work outside of your room or office you'll actually get more done, because you took the time to get out there and work somewhere else in the first place.
"Got to write my paper, going to head over to the coffee shop so I'll stop procrastinating "

"I do that too man, but today I'm going to the library instead. Still, got to love that coffee shop productivity."
Coffee Shop Productivity by J-Cat February 28, 2013

productivity bun 

A hairdo done in a hurry that serves a bigger purpose in life than most hairdos: Productivity. The higher the bun the more productive one will be.
Example 1
Coworker 1: Hey I have a questio--
Coworker 2: Not now, I'm in the zone.
Coworker 1 to Coworker 3: (whispers) I should have known, just look at that productivity bun.

Example 2
"Guys can have productivity buns too. My friend Nathaniel has one, and he's a famous DJ."