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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCompany to install microchips in employees
A Wisconsin technology company is offering its employees microchip implants that can be used to scan into the building and purchase food at work. Whether or not to get a chip is up to the employee to decide.
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Company to install microchips in employees (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jul 2017
OP
This is just creepy. It is beyond invasive. Do you have any idea how far they
smirkymonkey
Jul 2017
#11
TDale313
(7,820 posts)1. What could possibly go wrong? n/t
jehop61
(1,735 posts)2. Looks like
A foot in the door for Big Brother! Run employees
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)3. I would never work for any company who did this, I would resist to the death.
Next step everybody will be catalogued.....Not on my life would i ever.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)4. Employees Refusing Chip Will Be 1st On The Block To Lay Off.
Plus there will be a time that "taking the chip" will be a requirement for employment.
dalton99a
(81,495 posts)5. A nice souvenir when you get laid off
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Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)7. If there's one thing about employers that I've learned
it's that what is one day "optional" will quite likely become MANDATORY another day.
oasis
(49,387 posts)8. If you call in sick, you'd better not sneak off to the beach.
dalton99a
(81,495 posts)10. And don't do something you don't want your spouse or your boss to know about
HipChick
(25,485 posts)9. If you have a RFID badge...lots of companies are already doing this
I used to work for a company that could tell by your badge, what time you showed up at work, what time you left...how long you spent in the restroom....how long you took off for work....
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)11. This is just creepy. It is beyond invasive. Do you have any idea how far they
can take this idea and what they can possibly do with this technology?
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)12. I wonder if it has the capability to shock you,
you know, too get you to work faster?
edhopper
(33,580 posts)13. is the company called
Skynet?