@Greengordon

@pluralistic
My job requires me to perform "Admin functions" on the servers I oversee. The company recently implemented a new security system that watches everything. Seems I have been poking that 'Bear'. My notebook gets bricked remotely & access to Internet tools disabled. My supervisor keeps having to justify the work I do. They say it will eventually learn my patterns and stop this... Going on 2 months now. They are happy to keep me at arms length.

@pluralistic I would strongly disagree with that claim. If you compare the 1930s and 1980s factory enormous amounts of friction went away. Workers had a better environment and managers had better tools to do their jobs too. But that was when unions were strong so that shitting on someone else's lawn wasn't an acceptable answer and everyone therefore needed stuff to be better to sign on. Today we've largely replaced that kind of progress with games of hot potato turd passing instead.