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Phobos said:
So I was shopping and got asked to pick up a couple bags of potatoes or something. I picked up the biggest sack I could find. When will people learn their lesson? It’s a bad idea to ask me to do things.
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Made me laugh XD
 
All this old talk of vhs though. I remember the family having a couple of films on that, and taping football games and the like. My brothers however said that we had mazinga z and robotech, until an infant me destroyed them. One of my brothers always said I bit him as a baby, when he admitted like last year that he hurt himself, it wasn't me at all. My brothers blamed me for a lot of things as a child, I think one of them was existing (I'm the youngest) well sorry if your parents couldn't control themselves
 
sweet jesus' mandibles, they did it, my place of work has finally found something to drive me well and truly insane.
we used to have a perfectly fine swipe card clock-in, now, for some reason, they've installed a new security system. near the end of last year they wanted everyone to use a fingerprint scan for clock-in, its about as useful as a kettle labelled "hot" barely reads fingerprints half the time, we also have to use these small fobs to unlock the doors. now, for some reason known only to the geniuses that have installed the new security rubbish, every time someone uses a fob to enter the building an alarm sounds. imagine someone unlocking the door after you've had a tiring 12 hour shift. it's kind of like this:
seriously, they already have cameras trained on us in almost every part of the factory, who, in the vast cosmos, asked for the new security measures?
 
Captaaainuniverse said:
sweet jesus' mandibles, they did it, my place of work has finally found something to drive me well and truly insane.
we used to have a perfectly fine swipe card clock-in, now, for some reason, they've installed a new security system. near the end of last year they wanted everyone to use a fingerprint scan for clock-in, its about as useful as a kettle labelled "hot" barely reads fingerprints half the time, we also have to use these small fobs to unlock the doors. now, for some reason known only to the geniuses that have installed the new security rubbish, every time someone uses a fob to enter the building an alarm sounds. imagine someone unlocking the door after you've had a tiring 12 hour shift. it's kind of like this:
seriously, they already have cameras trained on us in almost every part of the factory, who, in the vast cosmos, asked for the new security measures?
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Someone who’s paranoid? :p
 
ugh maybe. my brother just reminded me that no one's even allowed a fag break, and they've had a go at someone leaving the doors open (again, alarmed) so that's maybe why the alarm goes off now? seriously though it's fast becoming the worst place in britain to work. a dang sweatshop is a less infuriating place to work
 
Captaaainuniverse said:
ugh maybe. my brother just reminded me that no one's even allowed a fag break, and they've had a go at someone leaving the doors open (again, alarmed) so that's maybe why the alarm goes off now? seriously though it's fast becoming the worst place in britain to work. a dang sweatshop is a less infuriating place to work
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Huh, seems like higher ups are either paranoid or obsessed with their protocols. May s the alarm system is just another way to decrease their cost of insurance.
 
That does sound pretty miserable Cap'n. I feel like the greatest effect of surveillance is not to create security but to create misery for the people being surveilled (why isn't "surveilled" in my browser's dictionary? It's definitely a word). It doesn't feel good to not be trusted by your company, or your government for that matter. I don't think an atmosphere where everybody is automatically presumed to be potential criminals has a good effect on anyone's morale or psychology. If people think everyone is more paranoid these days, with all this going on is there any wonder?

Well, after updating Windows 10 (always a roulette wheel of "will everything still work afterwards") I find that audio will no longer output to both my speakers and my wireless headphones at the same time. It was perfect before, because if I just turned off my speakers and picked up my headphones from their charging cradle, sound would automatically output to them. Now for some reason even just having the headphones plugged in makes them the only audio output and if I want to use the speakers, I have to pull the headphone jack out of the PC. Good job Microsoft.
 
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