thus why I retrofitted my vehicle's doors with shaped explosives and internal armor plating. Next time I get pulled over...that will be the LAST car door that cop ever leans up against. If I do it right I'll get to watch it from the reflection in those huge reflective aviators...
I am also contemplating a sticker on the passenger window that says "Stay calm Officer, I will release the Donut!" Maybe even tape a pack of donuts to the interior of the back window, put my license and insurance on it too, taped together.
i just did...wow, city of brotherly love NOT. Soon someone will catch it on video, and then the sh*t will hit the fan. Doubly so if there is a clear racial angle to it.
absolutely right! It's mostly bread and circuses to distract everyone from the fact that all this "privacy" everyone is wondering about has been gone for quite some time. All electronic activity is recorded on some level, just waiting for the data miners to start trolling through it. I feel sorry for my less tech-literate friends who post stupid semi-illegal stuff anywhere. Sure, no one might notice it now, but now when the FBI / DEA is sifting though almost every server on the planet someone in authority WILL eventually see it. I can see a system looking through thousands of photos, tracing IP's, creating a "report" with timestamps and IPs and automatically faxing it over to the local PD. Kinda surprised I haven't of such dragnets yet...I know many cases where the PD has caught people by an officer or another actual "person" browsing and seeing something but not yet of an automated system pouring through spidered facebook photos.
This would happen to me.
Even if there are copy there, I'd call 911 anyway. Or better yet FOX news, probably say that there is some big traffic stop with people in white coats forcing people to give body samples, and heavily insinuate it's the CDC and something horrible is going on. Especially if the police where there, make it totally sound like the start of some medical apocalypse, have everybody with me call different news shows...have someone start screaming "OH MY GOD" in the back ground, keep repeating where I'm at, say "their doing a roadblock with all these medical people, something horrible must be happening!"
In the right city, maybe could even start a riot if it could get splashed on the news as people start fleeing the "pandemic"
The USA peaked on July 20th, 1969. We still hold the title of "Leader of the Species" from the viewpoint of taking humans further away from it's birthplace than anyone else. Maybe the Chinese will take over that spot in 10-20 years, until then it is the flag of the USA that will possibly outlive the nation itself...
The real conspiracy is why we feel the need for the NSA to even exist. The saddest thing is that we are so introspective as a species still that we spend all our resources fighting each other while we sit on a small speck of dirt in the middle of a chaotic and violent universe that any moment could spew a huge rock at us...instead let's fund the ACA to get more people hooked on narcotics!
Blind jackasses, all of us.
penal battalion? Really? You want to take people who are behind / not paying child support and not only put them in prison, but also forced military service? Like the Afrika-Brigade 999 and Dirlewanger Brigade? That seems like pretty harsh double punishment...not only are you now a prisoner, you also get to be a human mindsweeper...
I think that is kinda the point. "oh well, those won't be able to be used in court!" but it's too late, the agency now has a list of whistle-blowers, they never planned on using any of it "in court", they just wanted that list.
must be nice. At my job, whenever I script something, I never tell anyone for fear of (again) being told that it's "not approved" and "against policy". A few days ago I had a ticket to add 50+ to a cisco wireless guest system, mainly because no one else wanted to touch it because they only know how to do it by hand. Dumping the CVS took a few seconds, it too way longer to replicate 50 tickets and change each name by hand and individually close them all...and don't even get me started about our HPSM that doesn't even allow ctrl-z "undo", is both a ticketing system and a knowledge base (and therefor sucks at both), failes to do it's "case exchange" with other systems at least 20% of the time...
hey Anonymous, please make this guys personal life a living hell so he doesn't have the time to try this crap anymore. Thanks! Maybe tell him "You have gone over your quota of electricity and water for the month" and shut his services off, "You have used your quota of money out of your bank account" and report his cards stolen...I'm sure someone could come up with far more annoying things to show him what kind of future he is advocating.
It most certainly is moving west...I'm in the middle of the US and we've started seeing an upswing of deaths from it. People dying with the needle still in their arms, who are used to the "good stuff" and don't realize what their actually injecting. Around here, much of this blame can be laid at the feet of the cartels...they are the primary producer and distributor of it.
As long as we continue to base our national policies on superstition and ancient mythological morality, stupid laws like this will exist and flourish. Luckily since I'm in IT I am shielded from most of the zealous young-earth conspiracy theorists, but every once in awhile one will show up. Now it's far more likely for people to think I'm an atheist as opposed to a "devil worshiper", so I guess that's an improvement. Sometimes I try to educate them that it's not that I don't "believe" in some higher power but 1. there isn't enough proof to show that "religious experiences" are much more than some evolutionary response to threat stress (aka Third Man syndrome) and 2. If these Gods are real, why would anyone want anything to do with some entity that really seems capricious, genocidal, bi-polar, and malicious?
Maybe someday the US will make laws based on science and reality, as opposed to "morality" and "divine punishment". When we have legislation based on real-world results as opposed to "a human-like entity in the sky who spoke to me in a dream", then maybe we will be mature enough to fix our problems.
I'd rather they do that then pull in front MY driveway to "stop and text, you know, stop and text like the teevee says" never noticing me right behind them. waiting and wondering why they are there in my way suddenly, waiting a bit more, then honking...absolutely no other traffic.
it was really random, and most ironically I was working at AT&T then so basically my own company just reached out it's evil corporate hand and stopped me from even getting inside my own home via their "don't drive and text campaign. Way to go!
Kinda like now, with the navy yard shooting, I "want" to joke at work "Way to go HP, you finally caused someone to go on a shooting spree!" but I'd probably get walked out by armed security. Very few people understand that I'm just trying to point out that corporations act completely psychopathic with no idea of their own after-affects that if we really treated them like "people" they would all be locked away in some Arkham-type asylum when they destroy whole ecosystems, "stalk" people their entire lives via credit reporting et al, fraudulently and systemically displacing millions of working-class citizens...killing thousands of people at once with faulty manufacturing plants - and this is only a few minutes of crimes done here in the US.
It's all part of the "your own your own" mentality here in the US. I live in a city that's just shy of a million people, and without a vehicle you would spend half your day just getting groceries if not longer. Our bus system MIGHT get you across town in 2 hours, not counting you will probably wait at least an hour both going and returning for the bus to even arrive, and probably have to walk at least a half mile to the stop. Going grocery shopping? Better bring some decent packing system to be able to make it back home with more than a single paper sack. You will probably have to give up anything frozen in the summer too, as the temperature of 110 (and sometimes -5 windchill in the winter) guarantees your milk will spoil, meat thaw, etc.
And if your unlucky enough to be 70% of the city who lives in an area where you have to take multiple buses, then you must leave your house usually 3-5 hours before your appointments.
But it really does help the wealthier people keep their undesirables locked away. Without a car, your not going to be able to keep a job...and our management here makes no exceptions for the most part as it's your responsibility to get there, even when the state of emergency is declared business must go on.
Often there is no store within 2-3 miles other than convenience stores or sketchy weird stores that only take cash. Most roads only have safe crossing spots every 1/2 mile, and these roads ring the living areas all over, making it downright dangerous to cross anywhere except the mile markers, and in many places (the nicer parts of town) we've started funding (via taxpayer money) 15-20 foot high walls for hundreds if not thousands of feet, with no sidewalks, all around neighborhoods.
Also, if you do take a bus with much stuff, you really have to keep an eye on it, as they are all rife with thievery A large chunk of our vehicles on the roads are huge SUV's, or construction vehicles who even on the highway drive on in the fast lane going 50, not that there is much highway left that isn't already a 45 mph construction zone manned by sometimes 2-4 highway patrol at a time, even when there are no workers (which is most of the time).
We might have a medical bag in the future that has a helmet with the magnetic transceiver in it. An immediate application would be field surgery, with a physician in a safe place performing life-saving operations in the troop transport via the vehicles encrypted sat signal. pop it on, do the work, and your good. Perhaps combine it with an immersive 3D computer technologies and remote cameras (and maybe even a bit of a finger/hand level feedback loop) this could go a long way.
I can see a whole industry centered around "rent-a-professional" where you just use the helmet to connect to someone who can fix whatever that you normally lack the skill to do. Far more efficient than traveling all over the place, and so far it seems easier to control a human than make a decent robot, or at least probably cheaper. And the expert repetitive-motion training could be useful too.
You are absolutely correct. Epigenetics is the name of the field. It's where hormones, proteins, and other factors affect genetic expression without actually altering the underlying genes. There are examples of Irish famine survivors who's children where fine but grandchildren developed "nutritional" related diseases, even though they where fed well. Their DNA didn't change, but since the expressions had happened before, and the survivors passed down the damages...
What if you "recorded" someone having a heart attack and then dying, them played that back over the interface? I don't think this device works on that level though, or else the receiver's heart and other automatic functions might have an issue...they might even sync up, or just freak out and beat twice as fast with a weird rhythm.
It probably depends on where and what they are recording, and how close they are to the particular nerve bundle carrying those signals.
Your doing it wrong. Go there not on preview night, during the day. Many times there is no one there but 4-5 other people total scattered, we sit up near the top middle, put up several seat arms...if I could only smoke inside! Sometimes I get too lazy and just pee on the floor...
HAHAHAHA. I work at HP, doing enterprise customer support. I have five different companies I support, and have at least 12 different "bosses" I report to. I can totally understand why they never heard from HP. I submit issues with various Citrix portals, access to exchange boxes, etc, and never hear anything either. The bureaucracy there is so thick it makes Brazil look organized. I've been waiting on access to RSA admin accounts for over seven months now...just when some progress seems to be happening someone goes on vacation, someone moves to a new position, etc...and the whole process has to be restarted, only to stall again because the paperwork runs into itself where it was already sitting! I'm still using my lead's authentication...which we're all pretty sure is a violation of NERC's security policy but no one cares. We have so many outsourced business parts that it's become a game of bouncing tickets around to avoid SLA violations, different companies ignoring our tickets until they are almost an SLA violation, then assigning them back to us and not telling us, because we don't have access to whatever system that notifies people about ticket re-assignment. Every day I have tickets I submitted a month or so ago come back to me with notes like "not our department, please re-assign"...and the tickets have gone from me to their t2 pool, then their t2 pool sits on it and then sends it to a (seemingly mostly random) department who sits on it until the last second because it's "not their job" and they assign it to "misroute", then the computer sits on it for a few days and auto-assigns it back to the originating person (me). They should go back to t2, since all I mostly do is re-assign it to them...and the whole time the customer STILL ISN'T RESOLVED. Gods forbid actually giving me any access to fix these issues myself...even when I'm supposed to be able to, half the time I feel I'm breaking the law by using someone else's credentials to log into whatever and do it.
I wouldn't be surprised if their request is still slowly winding it's way through a dozen different departments so that HP's response will be "compliant" with company PR releases.
Actually, in many Indian Casinos here in Oklahoma that's all they are, windox boxes running some software. I've seen them bluescreen to NT, and one of my friends is a network admin at a large company that provides these systems and the pretty large network that runs them all. Many of them build odd off of each other, like the huge Wheel of Fortune and such, all of those are tied together for the jackpot.
There are 20 locations in Tulsa, they have to have the "Moneypass" logo on them. Oddly enough, Google maps show 0 in Oklahoma, even though their website shows almost all WalMart ATM's are Moneypass compliant.
My old union rep came and got me in the middle of my work and told me that someone turned me in for using drugs in the bathroom, before my area manager was allowed to do anything. The area manager didn't know who said what (on purpose), but had a written report from whoever. It was all just crap anyway, so once I explained what I was doing (which wasn't illegal drugs), then myself, my manager, and my area manager all laughed and I went back to work. No drug testing, although I was told that if they actually had thought I was "impaired" they legally could make me, but I didn't object anyway. I never did find out who said what, but I soon moved on and never was very vindictive anyway.
My point is, the union there (CWA) was the reason that process existed in the first place. I've been fired for "no explanation needed" before, and this way is at least clear in procedure and fair. I don't think we ever had double overtime, but I do agree that is pretty crappy. But our union dues where $22 a month, I don't know what type of signing bonuses you received.
CWA was prepped for angry people when they announced they where shutting down "tech support" and moving everyone over to just "billing". You could stay in "tech support", you would just have to move about 200 miles away. The union reps all just said "it's a 'internal to the company' policy shift", like they had no say about it and the execs just did it, since no one lost their job. Management and CWA both acted like they where reading from the same script immediately. This was the reason I eventually stop working there...it wasn't a good enough job to stay at when there is no "promotion" into a better department, and I could see exactly what I would make per-hour for the rest of my life in the union's little booklet.
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thus why I retrofitted my vehicle's doors with shaped explosives and internal armor plating. Next time I get pulled over...that will be the LAST car door that cop ever leans up against. If I do it right I'll get to watch it from the reflection in those huge reflective aviators...
I am also contemplating a sticker on the passenger window that says "Stay calm Officer, I will release the Donut!" Maybe even tape a pack of donuts to the interior of the back window, put my license and insurance on it too, taped together.
i just did...wow, city of brotherly love NOT. Soon someone will catch it on video, and then the sh*t will hit the fan. Doubly so if there is a clear racial angle to it.
absolutely right! It's mostly bread and circuses to distract everyone from the fact that all this "privacy" everyone is wondering about has been gone for quite some time. All electronic activity is recorded on some level, just waiting for the data miners to start trolling through it. I feel sorry for my less tech-literate friends who post stupid semi-illegal stuff anywhere. Sure, no one might notice it now, but now when the FBI / DEA is sifting though almost every server on the planet someone in authority WILL eventually see it. I can see a system looking through thousands of photos, tracing IP's, creating a "report" with timestamps and IPs and automatically faxing it over to the local PD. Kinda surprised I haven't of such dragnets yet...I know many cases where the PD has caught people by an officer or another actual "person" browsing and seeing something but not yet of an automated system pouring through spidered facebook photos.
This would happen to me. Even if there are copy there, I'd call 911 anyway. Or better yet FOX news, probably say that there is some big traffic stop with people in white coats forcing people to give body samples, and heavily insinuate it's the CDC and something horrible is going on. Especially if the police where there, make it totally sound like the start of some medical apocalypse, have everybody with me call different news shows...have someone start screaming "OH MY GOD" in the back ground, keep repeating where I'm at, say "their doing a roadblock with all these medical people, something horrible must be happening!" In the right city, maybe could even start a riot if it could get splashed on the news as people start fleeing the "pandemic"
The USA peaked on July 20th, 1969. We still hold the title of "Leader of the Species" from the viewpoint of taking humans further away from it's birthplace than anyone else. Maybe the Chinese will take over that spot in 10-20 years, until then it is the flag of the USA that will possibly outlive the nation itself... The real conspiracy is why we feel the need for the NSA to even exist. The saddest thing is that we are so introspective as a species still that we spend all our resources fighting each other while we sit on a small speck of dirt in the middle of a chaotic and violent universe that any moment could spew a huge rock at us...instead let's fund the ACA to get more people hooked on narcotics! Blind jackasses, all of us.
what, you didn't root your car and upload your own patch?
penal battalion? Really? You want to take people who are behind / not paying child support and not only put them in prison, but also forced military service? Like the Afrika-Brigade 999 and Dirlewanger Brigade? That seems like pretty harsh double punishment...not only are you now a prisoner, you also get to be a human mindsweeper...
I think that is kinda the point. "oh well, those won't be able to be used in court!" but it's too late, the agency now has a list of whistle-blowers, they never planned on using any of it "in court", they just wanted that list.
In conspiracy to cover up the rape of the water bottle? Crimes against plastic for years of poor, assaulted water bottles?
must be nice. At my job, whenever I script something, I never tell anyone for fear of (again) being told that it's "not approved" and "against policy". A few days ago I had a ticket to add 50+ to a cisco wireless guest system, mainly because no one else wanted to touch it because they only know how to do it by hand. Dumping the CVS took a few seconds, it too way longer to replicate 50 tickets and change each name by hand and individually close them all...and don't even get me started about our HPSM that doesn't even allow ctrl-z "undo", is both a ticketing system and a knowledge base (and therefor sucks at both), failes to do it's "case exchange" with other systems at least 20% of the time...
hey Anonymous, please make this guys personal life a living hell so he doesn't have the time to try this crap anymore. Thanks! Maybe tell him "You have gone over your quota of electricity and water for the month" and shut his services off, "You have used your quota of money out of your bank account" and report his cards stolen...I'm sure someone could come up with far more annoying things to show him what kind of future he is advocating.
That's because we simple mortal humans lack the technology to successfully capture it's image on our primitive "recording devices"
that would be amazing! Here, take Cheney and Bush too while your here! Thanks! Do you need your parking validated?
well, maybe he's high off his hash he just got?
It most certainly is moving west...I'm in the middle of the US and we've started seeing an upswing of deaths from it. People dying with the needle still in their arms, who are used to the "good stuff" and don't realize what their actually injecting. Around here, much of this blame can be laid at the feet of the cartels...they are the primary producer and distributor of it.
As long as we continue to base our national policies on superstition and ancient mythological morality, stupid laws like this will exist and flourish. Luckily since I'm in IT I am shielded from most of the zealous young-earth conspiracy theorists, but every once in awhile one will show up. Now it's far more likely for people to think I'm an atheist as opposed to a "devil worshiper", so I guess that's an improvement. Sometimes I try to educate them that it's not that I don't "believe" in some higher power but 1. there isn't enough proof to show that "religious experiences" are much more than some evolutionary response to threat stress (aka Third Man syndrome) and 2. If these Gods are real, why would anyone want anything to do with some entity that really seems capricious, genocidal, bi-polar, and malicious?
Maybe someday the US will make laws based on science and reality, as opposed to "morality" and "divine punishment". When we have legislation based on real-world results as opposed to "a human-like entity in the sky who spoke to me in a dream", then maybe we will be mature enough to fix our problems.
I'd rather they do that then pull in front MY driveway to "stop and text, you know, stop and text like the teevee says" never noticing me right behind them. waiting and wondering why they are there in my way suddenly, waiting a bit more, then honking...absolutely no other traffic.
it was really random, and most ironically I was working at AT&T then so basically my own company just reached out it's evil corporate hand and stopped me from even getting inside my own home via their "don't drive and text campaign. Way to go!
Kinda like now, with the navy yard shooting, I "want" to joke at work "Way to go HP, you finally caused someone to go on a shooting spree!" but I'd probably get walked out by armed security. Very few people understand that I'm just trying to point out that corporations act completely psychopathic with no idea of their own after-affects that if we really treated them like "people" they would all be locked away in some Arkham-type asylum when they destroy whole ecosystems, "stalk" people their entire lives via credit reporting et al, fraudulently and systemically displacing millions of working-class citizens...killing thousands of people at once with faulty manufacturing plants - and this is only a few minutes of crimes done here in the US.
It's all part of the "your own your own" mentality here in the US. I live in a city that's just shy of a million people, and without a vehicle you would spend half your day just getting groceries if not longer. Our bus system MIGHT get you across town in 2 hours, not counting you will probably wait at least an hour both going and returning for the bus to even arrive, and probably have to walk at least a half mile to the stop. Going grocery shopping? Better bring some decent packing system to be able to make it back home with more than a single paper sack. You will probably have to give up anything frozen in the summer too, as the temperature of 110 (and sometimes -5 windchill in the winter) guarantees your milk will spoil, meat thaw, etc.
And if your unlucky enough to be 70% of the city who lives in an area where you have to take multiple buses, then you must leave your house usually 3-5 hours before your appointments.
But it really does help the wealthier people keep their undesirables locked away. Without a car, your not going to be able to keep a job...and our management here makes no exceptions for the most part as it's your responsibility to get there, even when the state of emergency is declared business must go on.
Often there is no store within 2-3 miles other than convenience stores or sketchy weird stores that only take cash. Most roads only have safe crossing spots every 1/2 mile, and these roads ring the living areas all over, making it downright dangerous to cross anywhere except the mile markers, and in many places (the nicer parts of town) we've started funding (via taxpayer money) 15-20 foot high walls for hundreds if not thousands of feet, with no sidewalks, all around neighborhoods.
Also, if you do take a bus with much stuff, you really have to keep an eye on it, as they are all rife with thievery A large chunk of our vehicles on the roads are huge SUV's, or construction vehicles who even on the highway drive on in the fast lane going 50, not that there is much highway left that isn't already a 45 mph construction zone manned by sometimes 2-4 highway patrol at a time, even when there are no workers (which is most of the time).
We might have a medical bag in the future that has a helmet with the magnetic transceiver in it. An immediate application would be field surgery, with a physician in a safe place performing life-saving operations in the troop transport via the vehicles encrypted sat signal. pop it on, do the work, and your good. Perhaps combine it with an immersive 3D computer technologies and remote cameras (and maybe even a bit of a finger/hand level feedback loop) this could go a long way. I can see a whole industry centered around "rent-a-professional" where you just use the helmet to connect to someone who can fix whatever that you normally lack the skill to do. Far more efficient than traveling all over the place, and so far it seems easier to control a human than make a decent robot, or at least probably cheaper. And the expert repetitive-motion training could be useful too.
You are absolutely correct. Epigenetics is the name of the field. It's where hormones, proteins, and other factors affect genetic expression without actually altering the underlying genes. There are examples of Irish famine survivors who's children where fine but grandchildren developed "nutritional" related diseases, even though they where fed well. Their DNA didn't change, but since the expressions had happened before, and the survivors passed down the damages...
What if you "recorded" someone having a heart attack and then dying, them played that back over the interface? I don't think this device works on that level though, or else the receiver's heart and other automatic functions might have an issue...they might even sync up, or just freak out and beat twice as fast with a weird rhythm. It probably depends on where and what they are recording, and how close they are to the particular nerve bundle carrying those signals.
Your doing it wrong. Go there not on preview night, during the day. Many times there is no one there but 4-5 other people total scattered, we sit up near the top middle, put up several seat arms...if I could only smoke inside! Sometimes I get too lazy and just pee on the floor...
HAHAHAHA. I work at HP, doing enterprise customer support. I have five different companies I support, and have at least 12 different "bosses" I report to. I can totally understand why they never heard from HP. I submit issues with various Citrix portals, access to exchange boxes, etc, and never hear anything either. The bureaucracy there is so thick it makes Brazil look organized. I've been waiting on access to RSA admin accounts for over seven months now...just when some progress seems to be happening someone goes on vacation, someone moves to a new position, etc...and the whole process has to be restarted, only to stall again because the paperwork runs into itself where it was already sitting! I'm still using my lead's authentication...which we're all pretty sure is a violation of NERC's security policy but no one cares. We have so many outsourced business parts that it's become a game of bouncing tickets around to avoid SLA violations, different companies ignoring our tickets until they are almost an SLA violation, then assigning them back to us and not telling us, because we don't have access to whatever system that notifies people about ticket re-assignment. Every day I have tickets I submitted a month or so ago come back to me with notes like "not our department, please re-assign"...and the tickets have gone from me to their t2 pool, then their t2 pool sits on it and then sends it to a (seemingly mostly random) department who sits on it until the last second because it's "not their job" and they assign it to "misroute", then the computer sits on it for a few days and auto-assigns it back to the originating person (me). They should go back to t2, since all I mostly do is re-assign it to them...and the whole time the customer STILL ISN'T RESOLVED. Gods forbid actually giving me any access to fix these issues myself...even when I'm supposed to be able to, half the time I feel I'm breaking the law by using someone else's credentials to log into whatever and do it. I wouldn't be surprised if their request is still slowly winding it's way through a dozen different departments so that HP's response will be "compliant" with company PR releases.
Actually, in many Indian Casinos here in Oklahoma that's all they are, windox boxes running some software. I've seen them bluescreen to NT, and one of my friends is a network admin at a large company that provides these systems and the pretty large network that runs them all. Many of them build odd off of each other, like the huge Wheel of Fortune and such, all of those are tied together for the jackpot.
There are 20 locations in Tulsa, they have to have the "Moneypass" logo on them. Oddly enough, Google maps show 0 in Oklahoma, even though their website shows almost all WalMart ATM's are Moneypass compliant.
My old union rep came and got me in the middle of my work and told me that someone turned me in for using drugs in the bathroom, before my area manager was allowed to do anything. The area manager didn't know who said what (on purpose), but had a written report from whoever. It was all just crap anyway, so once I explained what I was doing (which wasn't illegal drugs), then myself, my manager, and my area manager all laughed and I went back to work. No drug testing, although I was told that if they actually had thought I was "impaired" they legally could make me, but I didn't object anyway. I never did find out who said what, but I soon moved on and never was very vindictive anyway. My point is, the union there (CWA) was the reason that process existed in the first place. I've been fired for "no explanation needed" before, and this way is at least clear in procedure and fair. I don't think we ever had double overtime, but I do agree that is pretty crappy. But our union dues where $22 a month, I don't know what type of signing bonuses you received. CWA was prepped for angry people when they announced they where shutting down "tech support" and moving everyone over to just "billing". You could stay in "tech support", you would just have to move about 200 miles away. The union reps all just said "it's a 'internal to the company' policy shift", like they had no say about it and the execs just did it, since no one lost their job. Management and CWA both acted like they where reading from the same script immediately. This was the reason I eventually stop working there...it wasn't a good enough job to stay at when there is no "promotion" into a better department, and I could see exactly what I would make per-hour for the rest of my life in the union's little booklet.