Surely this is a Boss Screen for people found looking at a careers site of another company?

Surely, that's intended to be on the site?

The link is simply a "boss key" that a browser may click if their boss is coming, and quickly look as if they're doing something productive.

I assume that folk looking for employment with Virgin are disgruntled with their current jobs, and hence morale may be a little low.

It's just Virgin injecting a little humour into their site.

Stick. Wrong end of.

Isn't this just the equivalent of the 'boss key' that used to be popular in DOS games, i.e. a button that would change the screen to a seemingly work-related, but entirely fictional graph?

Or is that explanation not exciting enough?

If I recall correctly, games like Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry used to have a "Boss Key" built in that hid the game and popped up a spreadsheet. Very handy. Glad to see it's spread to the interwebs.

there was a time a few years ago where the virginatlantic website was blocked by my employers webfilter no doubt on an assumption that any site with "virgin" in it was NSFW !

Where is the "boss key" for The Reg?

isn't this just a screen cover, to stop the boss seeing what you are browsing? Especially useful when it is alternative employment, Hence the chart may be correct for your current job!. It doesn't seem that the figures purport to anything at Virgin..

What I don't understand is why the photo in the middle of the site is so rubbish. It looks like it's got a scratch across it. Couldn't Virgin provide a better graphic of a Virgin aeroplane?

The photo is fine, just those aircraft are not what they're cracked up to be. Ta-dah!

Okay, okay, I know...

It's a pitot tube (part of the speedometer).

It seems that that whole site is NSFW here:

Your request to website <<removed for brevity>> was denied because of its content categorization: "Job Search"

Now let's just hope they don't log IPs...

The line is actually the split between the two rudders on a 747, as the photo is of the tail assembly.

See here for comparison:

http://www.airchive.com/airline%20pics/LHR%20Compressed/LHR%20VG747%20TAIL.JPG

Biggles!

The implication is clearly that someone job-hunting needs a boss key that pops up putative stats for the job-hunter's current company, not Virgin, thus fostering the impression that all is normal below decks.

Cheers,

Algie

... Send them to Heathrow T5 and maybe I'll see my luggage this side of never never!

...can we have one for The Reg please?

Pretty please?