If the pay is shit, the work is shit, the colleagues are shit, and the boss is an entitled prick, there’s no fucking way I’m motivated, and no fucking way am I gonna work hard.

Giving me flashbacks to one of the worst jobs I ever had years and years ago. Within five years of leaving, all but two members of the most toxic team I’d ever worked with had quit, and the CEO had twice relocated the main office to cheaper and smaller buildings (I presume because of a drop in revenue). He treated them like shit, and they all passed it on down to new hires, effectively destroying employee morale from the top down. What a miserable crab bucket of a job.

Less than ideal, but as luck would have it the French have already crafted a marvelous invention to solve these kinds of problems.

A screenshot of your birds with Senpai’s face added.

Love to hear it, boot the dolts, keep the books.

They’d better not, for the safety of wearers. I can’t be the only one who remembers the way that people wearing the Google Glasses:

Google started selling a prototype of Google Glass to qualified “Glass Explorers” in the US on April 15, 2013, for a limited period for $1,500, before it became available to the public on May 15, 2014. It has an integrated 5 megapixel still/720p video camera. The headset received a great deal of criticism amid concerns that its use could violate existing privacy laws.

On January 15, 2015, Google announced that it would stop producing the Google Glass prototype.

The incident where an entire pub harangued and ejected someone for wearing a pair is a standout. People generally don’t want their private or public interactions and likenesses recorded or livesteamed by someone wearing a camera on their face, even though it’s less obtrusive than someone walking about with a camcorder pointing it at everyone/thing they see.

Aha! Thought that you could distract us all as well? Joke’s on you, I’m already… uh, what was I doing just now?

It’s a persistent problem all over, there’s no shortage of sadists among CO’s and cops SMH.

Millennial? No we don’t we were there the whole time…

That’s… an unfortunate shortcut into the history books. “Who’s the ass wanker that accelerated armed conflict in Yugoslavia, eventually culminating in the Balkan War?” Already found some memes about it lol

Can I get more information, please? How exactly did Branislav Bottle-bottom cause the war?

I’ve been saying it for years, starting with those idiotic voice activated “smart” speakers from Google or Amazon in people’s homes. Nobody pays attention to what’s happening behind the scenes, even when the press breaks a story about some unsavoury bullshit (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47893082) like “voice recordings are occasionally reviewed to improve speech recognition but the reaction to the Bloomberg article suggests many customers are unaware that humans may be listening.” That’s you, that’s you and your GF/wife talking about your work (possibly including restricted information), friends and family, politics, or about how you’re trying to work on getting your entire hand to fit inside of her. The thought that these same companies would design and furnish technology for vehicles without engaging in the same kind of stuff is absurd.

Too few people know, fewer care if you bother to tell them about it. They’d be aghast to know that what they had bought and installed in their living room/dining room/den/bedroom/bathroom is essentially a voluntary bug, yet telling them that the cops could subpoena the companies in question to excise the unit’s data and review everything they’ve been saying in the privacy of their vehicle over a relevant (or maybe not-so-relevant) period of time pursuant to an investigation usually will get you idiotic comments about how “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”

The content in question can at the very least affect their insurance, at worst be used as a honeypot by people seeking to exert influence via blackmail, or extort the person in question. The end-user risk is the same as that described concerning their use in households. Just think about all of the “uncomfortable conversations” or sex that you’ve had in your/someone else’s car over the decades - ask yourself if you’d want an open mic sitting there, which may or may not be later reviewed by persons unknown. This is the kind of information which may become available to cops, and worse yet, they don’t always need warrants. There’s been a pervasive culture of simply leaning into those unwilling to turn it over, in the kind of theme seen in recent years with doorbell cams. I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t pull the same routine with a vehicle’s computer data, whether or not it involves cameras/mics.

I’m not generally a big fan of outsourcing, but he might consider hiring someone who doesn’t become completely useless at elevations higher than 2000m, and need a helicopter rescue…

“Media reports said the climber had returned to the 3,776-metre peak on Friday because he had left his phone and other items at the scene of his first rescue. It was unclear if he had managed to find the device.”

LMAO, how mad were the rescue crews the second time around though? “You again? What the fuck is your problem?!”

I’m not going to explicitly recommend it, as ‘results may vary from one user to the next’, but it’s funny and bears consideration.

Already on it.