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> Workers at the Buffalo plant told Bloomberg that Tesla tracks their computer keystrokes to monitor how they work, prompting some employees to refrain from tak
by jakelazaroff 4y ago
> Workers at the Buffalo plant told Bloomberg that Tesla tracks their computer keystrokes to monitor how they work, prompting some employees to refrain from taking bathroom breaks.
It’s honestly kind of mind boggling that this is even legal.
- kibwen 4y agoIn the absence of labor regulation, employment sprints in the direction of slavery.
- junofan 4y agoKeyloggers are nothing like chattel slavery. Melodramatic comparisons make labor advocates sound unreasonable. It’s fine to push for less intrusive performance monitoring on its own merits.
- kibwen 4y agoRather, the point is to illustrate how the default state of the employer-employee relationship is to be as unfavorable to the employee as the employer can get away with, where slavery is merely the extreme end of the scale that employers aspire to.
- surement 4y agoif the "employer-employee relationship" was not a positive sum transaction then it wouldn't happen
- kibwen 4y agoThis is damning with faint praise. When Clint Eastwood pulls out a gun, tosses Tuco a shovel, and tells him to start digging, that's also a positive sum transaction, but it may bode poorly for Tuco.
- Natsu 4y agoThat's very disputable given the costs to Tuco and in any case, the modal positive sum is that both employee and employer profit.
- surement 4y agoI don't know that reference but no one we're talking about here is under threat of death from their employer. You are an intellectually dishonest person.
- surement 4y agowhy would it be illegal? employees are welcome to find jobs elsewhere
- jakelazaroff 4y ago"Why would lack of air conditioning be illegal? Sweatshop workers are welcome to find jobs elsewhere."
- surement 4y agoyeah you clearly don't understand what the alternatives are