Missing Person

[jacrob]

I think the vile treatment of employees is the last ditch effort for ultimate slavery in these times of economic instability. People are scared to lose their jobs so will accept any treatment as long as they can keep the pay cheque coming in.

My last place of employment introduced a Desktop Mgmt system for all staff below management levels. It intermittently took a snapshot of your desktop and sent it to your manager i.e. they can see everything you have open. When you stopped typing it recorded it as "idle time" and sent a daily total of your idle time to your manager. If your typing speed slowed down it recorded it as low output. If you were more than 5 minutes late in the morning or back from lunch, more than 3 times in 12 months you lost your bonus. Lots of other heinous behaviour modification practices, and complete loss of privacy.

Staff were constantly running....to and from the toilets lest they log too much idle time, to and from lunch. Nobody would speak to anyone else while they worked incase they get low output for the day.

I thought it was evil....sorry let me rephrase that, it was wonderful catalyst.