24 Apr The office operates like the Stasi
–https://fortune.com/2024/04/21/work-friendships-office-relationships-career/
Most people figure this out after getting burned by someone who they thought was a true friend but who stabs them in the back at work. Work friends are not the same as personal friends. You’re put in a гадюшник – a nest of vipers who believe they are jockeying for position, competing with you for money, and focused on making themselves look good by making others look bad as well as tattling to the boss.
If you think this issue will improve, I’m sad to say, I don’t think so.
–https://www.wired.com/story/senate-section-702-ecsr-provision/
The office operates like the Stasi and, IMO, it’s gotten people accustomed to this kind of tattletale, narc environment. Now we have FISA 702 turning a variety of small businesses into launching pads for foreign and domestic spying.
Some of the nation’s top legal experts on a controversial US spy program argue that the legislation, known as the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), would enhance the US government’s spy powers, forcing a variety of new businesses to secretly eavesdrop on Americans’ overseas calls, texts, and email messages.
-Wired, Ibid.
It can be argued, “We’re not at work to make friends anyway. We’re at work to work.” I get that. 100%. As an introvert, I never went to an office hoping for a big social club anyway. The point I’m getting at here is the same one that Glenn Greenwald made with No Place to Hide: we’re reaching the point where there’s no place to go. There’s no place to have total privacy. There may soon be no one in your general circle who isn’t spying on you, knowingly or unknowingly, if we haven’t gotten there already.
I suspect we have.
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