Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52123035

everyone says "form a union" or "quit your job". weak aura. ​the real move is psychological warfare. yesterday my manager asked me why I missed the deadline. I simply looked at him, blinked slowly, and said "what deadline? you've been in a coma for 3 years, Richard. please wake up." ​he started crying. I took his wallet. ​I've been studying applied workplace sociopathy and mind control tricks from howiconvincedthem.com, and honestly, if you aren't using dark behavioral psychology to make your middle-management boss question their own sanity, you are leaving money on the table. ​next week I am going to use an identity-value flip tactic to convince the CEO that I am actually his father. wish me luck.

they are choosing the wrong time (or something like that)

As a Saskatchewan resident born and raised, guess what people get used to it.

This is actually beginning to scare this koala while I'm listening to it. https://youtu.be/K-99jdtQHEQ

What’s behind the AI doomerism?

What’s up with Trump’s obsession with the Kennedy Center?

And what does the Macklemore story tell us about power in America?

I’m back to discuss all of this, and much more, on a new Coffee Klatch.

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Caption is from my very own ~~sick~~ cool and ~~twisted~~ normal mind Photo Credit: U. J. Alexander The Alpine sound of Oktoberfest

Found because of KDE's daily wallpaper feature. https://bing.gifposter.com/in/wallpaper-2014-alphornbavaria.html

Flock Safety announced a voluntary employee separation program on Friday, offering a “generous” severance package to those who want to leave amid growing backlash against the surveillance technology company, according to an internal email shared with WIRED.

Applications for Flock’s voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company. Flock expects to grant buyouts to the majority of workers who apply, according to the email. People familiar with the program but not authorized to discuss it publicly say they believe that a significant number of the startup’s roughly 1,500 employees may try to depart.

Flock is making the severance offers as it continues to lose customers amid growing frustration across the US about its sprawling network of license plate readers, which have raised concerns about privacy and misuse. In the last month, WIRED has documented officers allegedly abusing Flock to track former romantic partners and colleagues, exposed how widely some agencies share access to the system, shown how little is known about the manufacturing of the devices, and revealed in new detail how much information Flock’s cameras collect based on data from a dismantled Flock device.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/71139887