Talk:Goldbricking

Note that both Cyberslacking and CyberBludging have been merged into this article and redirected to it. --Xyzzyplugh 13:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Nobody, outside of the IT community I guess, ever uses this term in this manner

See title.

Gold-bar swindle vs. cyberslacking

I've just come here from List of confidence tricks, which said tgoohat "Gold brick scams involve selling a tangible item for more than it is worth; named after selling the victim an allegedly golden ingot which turns out to be gold-coated lead." - this article appears only to talk about how "goldbricking" is the most common synonym for "cyberslacking".

None of the sources linked mention the term "goldbricking" (although one of them links to this adjacent article which uses the word, although not in any clear context).

The original story about the gold brick was deleted from this article as "unsourced rubbish" last month, but most articles that link to this page are expecting it to be talking about the historical swindle, rather than loafing off at work. Should this article be split off into "cyberslacking"? --McGeddon (talk) 16:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Military usage of term

This is also common military slang for malingering or goofing off and just generally doing whatever you can to avoid actual work. Not necessarily having to do with internet surfing. 214.13.81.211 (talk) 14:56, 1 January 2012 (UTC)