Work is Becoming More Like Prison

[Teamster Jeff]

Some Workers Forced to Wear Electronic Bands That Track Everything They Do (Including Bathroom Breaks)

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The Irish Independent reports that grocery giant TESCO has strapped electronic armbands to their warehouse workers to measure their productivity, tracking their actions so closely that management knows when they briefly pause to drink from a water fountain or take a bathroom break. These unforgivable lapses in productivity impact workers' performance score, which management then apparently uses to terrify them into working faster.
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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/work-becoming-more-prison-some-workers-forced-wear-electronic-bands-track-everything?akid=10072.1123713.-U0LiT&rd=1&src=newsletter796377&t=5

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-accused-of-using-electronic-armbands-to-monitor-its-staff-8493952.html

[99th_Monkey]

1. I think that's why they call it "wage slavery" ~nt

[midnight]

2. In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest for money.

http://www.alternet.org/story/151732/21st-century_slaves:_how_corporations_exploit_prison_labor

[99th_Monkey]

3. Of course.

It's no accident that the USA, "beacon of lightl", has
more citizens incarcerated that any nation on earth by
far, AND we have private corporately run prisons in most
states, and that these prisons are paid our tax dollars
as though they have 90% occupancy (whether they
do or not).

Thankfully not in Oregon yet, where I live.

Auschwitz comes to mind. Nazi's had factories located
strategically around their work/death camps.

[limpyhobbler]

4. A truly frightening trend.

But then we have so many truly frightening trends these days.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Teaching's like that in most places, now

Surprise "walk-in" observations. Institutionalized now w. the mass adoption of the Gates-$$$ funded Danielson Framework.

Also... creepy video-taped classroom observation via "Teachscape". Also a product of that particular twisted mind. ( i.e Gates).

We're living in a very ugly era. Hopefully we'll get ( or our kids will get) to look back on it someday and breathe a sigh of relief the way our generation did about the McCarthy and Hitler eras.

Hopefully.