This is fucking disturbing: Microchipped Employees Now Walk The Halls Of This Wisconsin Workplace.

[TheBlackAdder]

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Employees Receive Microchip Implants

Three Square Market is giving its employees the chance to be microchipped. The Wisonsin company even held a “chip party” to implant their employees with the RFID microchips, which can be used to access computers, purchase food and use copy machines at the office.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/three-square-market-microchips_us_59820e9de4b09d24e994c800?lla


http://videos.vidible.tv/prod/2017-08/02/598217d885eb42191ac36fcf_480x480_v2.ogg?4ON9vqio_loqqQ6x_vaSWhgNgNnkXV2UHkN4VL7mWxSuFqz1ZwOpGWWV1HJVMZoq


Oh, I'm sure there's a lot more that can be done with it, besides what's being touted.

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[ksoze]

1. Your cell phone gives off more data about you

then a microchip. You are tracked, monitored and snooped on much more by your phone which is the hub of many peoples lives.

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[kcr]

3. Except you can put down your phone and walk away from it.

It's not physically embedded in your body.

[ksoze]

4. Which very few do

Also, the chip does not have your emails, bank info, friends list, relatives names and numbers, etc.

You now need your phone on you to open the restrooms in our office building - it has a key tied to the tenant.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

42. For now.........

And remember, too, if people embrace or accept it here, they'll want to eventually make it MANDATORY. And then other places will want to adopt it for themselves as well. And how certain are these employees doing the chips that the chips won't be snooping on them after hours. I mean, c'mon. Employers still routinely snoop on their employees' social media accounts. We should be very leery of this IMHO.

[Blue_true]

31. Do you watch Bond movies?

Cut the microchip out with a knife, stomp it and walk away. Or was that Bourne, hmmmm. 😅😜

[roamer65]

36. Yes, amazing how they got us to swallow "1984" and love it too!

[Skittles]

40. speak for yourself

my tracfone would tell you diddly

[MineralMan]

2. Well, unless you work there, I guess you won't have to

accept the microchip. In fact, it's apparently voluntary for the employees. Is it scary? Maybe, but not if it's voluntary.

Is it the wave of the future? Probably.

My dogs are microchipped. If they're lost, I'll get them back, as soon as they end up somewhere that can read those microchips, such as shelters, vet offices, etc.

I don't know. I suppose it's scary, sort of, but I doubt anyone will be offering such a thing to me anytime soon. I can't see why they'd want to, either. I don't work for anyone.

It's a shruggable thing for me at this point.

[MichMary]

14. About the dogs . . .

Anyone who has their dog chipped has to make sure the microchip is registered with the owner's name and info.

I volunteer at a shelter, and we check all strays for microchips. Many of them are chipped, but most of those have never been registered. The chip companies won't even give out the info about the vets who chipped the dogs. Attempting to locate the owner is a lost cause from the get-go. When they end up at our shelter, they may as well have never been chipped in the first place.

Sad that anyone would go to the trouble and expense of microchipping a beloved pet, then never bother to register the chip.

[yellowcanine]

5. Mark of the Beast, 666 and all that. Has the Rapture happened yet?

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or not. Where did I leave that tinfoil hat, anyway?

[Squinch]

6. Seriously? Concern about employers inserting microchips into employees is conspiracy theory to you?

It doesn't seem like even a tad too much for you?

[yellowcanine]

10. Yep. Did you miss the part that it is entirely voluntary?

Sorry, but I don't see the problem. I really don't.

[Squinch]

15. I used to work in a company where 14 hour days were entirely voluntary. But if you didn't

put them in, it would be pointed out in your reviews that "you weren't a good fit with the corporate culture," and in the next "corporate restructuring" your job would coincidentally be made redundant.

I didn't fall for the bullshit that it was voluntary, and was able to keep the job till I found another better one, but in most corporate cultures "entirely voluntary" usually doesn't mean anything of the sort.

[Squinch]

18. LOL! Did that personal insult make you feel better? Seems like you have some problem with me.

You aren't memorable enough for me to recall any conversations where that problem may have arisen, but whatever your beef is, have fun with it.

[suffragette]

19. Very, very good point.

[TheFrenchRazor]

23. some people can't wait to love Big Brother; i think you're concern is entirely justified;

these kind of things always start small, and before long everybody is doing it, and it becomes essentially mandatory in order to function in society. the masses tend to be complacent, and the next generation grows up not knowing anything else, and these things quickly become a done-deal that is basically impossible to reverse. rights once given away are almost never regained.

[Major Nikon]

29. Not everyone falls into that trap

While some are certainly willing to sell their soul to the company, not everyone does and any corporation of any size that tried to purge all who resisted wouldn't last very long. There's just too much good talent out there who are able to add considerable value to the company at 8 hours without having to spend 6 more trying to make themselves valuable.

This company is obviously seeking free publicity via the media hype over a product that has no chance of taking off. They will never get anywhere close to universal acceptance and there's too many other, and better, options to do what they are doing. Even in the off chance more people are going to want to opt in, I can think of better things to get disturbed about.

[Glassunion]

39. We call that: Voluntold

(Boss): The weekend volunteer signup sheet is on the wall outside the cafeteria
... (1 week later)
(Boss): I noticed your name is not on the sign up sheet. What day can I put you down to volunteer on?

You were just "voluntold" to work an extra day.

[smirkymonkey]

25. Yeah, voluntary. Like taking a drug test is voluntary.

I would like to see how long the employees who decline it last.

Seriously, you see nothing "Big Brother-ish" at all about this? I think it is completely effed up! God knows where this could lead.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

43. Rule of thumb for employees

If your boss/company says that something is currently "voluntary", you can pretty much expect it to eventually be MANDATORY. Count on it.

[kcr]

44. Well, why do we even need workers protections at all with that logic?

Cuz work is voluntary! Might as well let corporations run all over us.

[Docreed2003]

7. Lmao...way to go full evangelical

[Missn-Hitch]

9. This absolutely falls in line with Evangelical prophecy.

Look it up.

I heard about this in the 80's. It only reinforces their beliefs. Roughly, after the rapture, your only hope is NOT to receive the "mark" and have your head cut off. Something along those lines. It's been awhile since I was immersed in this strain of Christianity.

I do find this disturbing.

[hamsterjill]

13. I've already seen the video about this floating around Facebook.

One of the radical right wingers has it on her page. It's presented as fear mongering, although, realistically, no one is being forced to get a microchip.

I admit to finding it disturbing, and it wouldn't be the right thing for me to work at that company.

[Missn-Hitch]

21. I have not seen it yet. I should since I am "friends" with many of them.

Yes, they are not being forced. But try to see it from their perspective.

Can we function in society without a debit card? They claim that we will not be able to do any banking, buying goods and services, going to a doctor, etc. without the chip. Either in the forehead or in the hand. All in the name of preventing ID theft and streamlining all things in the economy.

What does this say about us as individuals? What are the implications for individual liberty, privacy?

I agree. "It wouldn't be the right thing for me to work at that company."

Cheers.

[hamsterjill]

22. Well, I have no intention of getting a microchip.

I really do see their perspective.

But the right wingers periodically put forth stuff like this to further their agenda and fear. As a Christian myself (but not a right wing crazy evangelical one!!!!), I have beliefs about this and would not do it. That's a personal thing for me and what someone else may or may not do is none of my business.

But we are not at a point where it is being forced onto people and it's not correct and truthful for the right wingers to be pushing it as a fear. If they are going to push the story, then they need to include the facts.

[Missn-Hitch]

35. Agreed, but what are facts? *sarcasm* Have a good weekend.

[hamsterjill]

38. You, too!!!!

Hopefully it will be a good weekend to be a Democrat!!! I'll be watching the "festivities" closely.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. It's tough for me to apply a Fundamentalist lens to it when I think the Bible is bullshit.

[Canoe52]

8. Not sticking anything in me...

Takes me a month just to get up the nerve to get my blood drawn!

[Coventina]

11. I agree that it is disturbing, even though others will mock you.

People are not pets.

This is all about control. And it's creepy.

[DFW]

12. Droids

Unless I'm the one programming such a chip, and I have no clue how to do anything like that, I would never allow anything of the sort to be done to me.

[suffragette]

20. Yep, only dips would allow themselves to get chipped.

[cwydro]

24. I wouldn't do it ever.

But it's voluntary. And hey! They even get a tshirt!

[delisen]

26. Microchip me Bro!

sound much more pleasant than "Don't taze me Bro.

[SethH]

27. if they get lost, their boss can find them

suppose one of the workers goes out for a walk, and a big rainstorm comes and washes away the scent trail so he can't find his way back to work? Some other nice tech company can scan his chip and find out who he belongs to.

[xajj4791]

28. It is not all about control, sorry...

but we are moving towards a nearly 100% digital world. More and more commerce is done online and identity theft is getting more technical. Having your identity verification embedded in your body means that casual pickpockets cannot obtain it. As to the big brother aspect, I am guessing you did not consider just wrapping it in a material that blocks the signal? That would allow privacy when it was wanted. Eventually it will be mandatory world wide as we have more terror attacks and more right wingers are elected to office and push through anti liberty pro security measures though.

[Squinch]

30. Only if people defend it as inevitable and oh, so useful. Or "nothing to see here."

[xajj4791]

32. or if they truly see it as an improvement.

I personally would like to not need a wallet or phone because all of those options are embedded into my skin and to have a google lens in my eye that will display my online information for me.

[Squinch]

33. So you are saying you love the idea and you hate the idea.

You'd like one, but it's a "anti liberty pro security measure." Or am I reading that wrong?

[xajj4791]

34. Yes, you are reading that wrong.

While I would like one and expect it to have many benefits, I expect the mandate for all citizens to have one will come due to anti-liberty, pro-security measures such as those rammed through post 9/11.

[MyNameGoesHere]

37. I want mine right

In my left ass cheek.

[DoodAbides]

41. Very bothersome. I still have an issue with pee tests, lol. nt