this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
250 points (99.6% liked)
Technology
63455 readers
4428 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My workplace installed desk presence sensors and has a stupid little robot roomba thing that drives up and down the rows documenting who’s in their seats.
Edit: this is the damn robot that we have to be seen by: https://www.globaldws.com/virbrix
Man, what sort of ~~sweatshop~~ industry is this so I can avoid it?
IT
I don't know if this is a joke or not...
I am genuinely not joking. We on-boarded this bullshit:
https://www.globaldws.com/virbrix
fuck with the sensor
So obviously people at my work did this. They sent out an email warning us that abuse of organization property would be met with progressive discipline (like LWOP and dismissal)
Pretty sure IR lasers fry cameras - set one up in the robots path
having worked in a call center my response would be lol
these jobs can’t keep enough people as is, you ‘d have to kill someone or fuck the ceos wife to get fired
I don’t know about that. Where I’m at, the job market is not great so people stay where I work (me included) because the option is here or find another industry. The colleague of mine who taped a piece of paper over the robots sensors got suspended 2 weeks without pay for it.
I would kick that shit like a soccer ball idc if i get fired
This shit should count as abuse and be illegal
Right but at the end of the day: you kick it, you feel like you took a stand, your employer either outright fires you or gives you a week LWOP and then you have less money (either temporarily or permanently). Cost outweighs the benefit for most at my work.
I have the privlage of having a few months to look for a new job.
Evwry day we passively accept these changes we become indistinguishable from slaves.
Where I live there are no such protections. You find a job or way to make money or you fall behind on your bills which go into collections. The choice is between feeding your cat/dog/child, or standing up for what you know should be right.
No i mean my savings will last a few months
Best manager ever. Doesn’t chit chat and cleans the floor.
More like makes false negatives and marked me 3 times this year (so far) as absent which required a total of 15 minutes in useless frantic Teams calls to verify my location to my manager across the country -_-