Who are the workers who have the luxury of privacy at work anyway? Mostly the bosses who are shielded from everyone else with their separate offices, secretaries, closed doors, etc. And the furtive sort of privacy you can imagine you might have in a cubicle, or if you stay at your desk during lunch.
So if there is a right to privacy in the workplace, wouldn't it logically go way beyond net traffic? If it's a "right" it would have to be democratically allowed. Would being made to sit in an open, cubicle-less room then be a violation of "privacy"? Aren't these judges likely to catch a tiger by the tail if they "win"?
Remember, the definition of "employee" centers on the existence of employer "control" over exactly how the employee conducts him/herself while on the job. We go to great lengths to euphemise the basic indentured servant status of the modern workplace, but it is what it is - organized control of people by other people for the profit of the owners. Deal with it.
- M Peasley -
...and this one falls into the perennial "we are afraid of our children" storyline. Creepy kid with genetically anamolous mega-brain leads hordes of his machete-wielding peers into their parent's bedrooms at midnight. The mythological roots of this go back to Jason and the Argonauts, where, in that story, the women of a town all go maniacal and hack their sleeping hubbys and baby boys into chum in the dead of night.
It's fun to be scared by stories like this. But it's just for fun.
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Who are the workers who have the luxury of privacy at work anyway? Mostly the bosses who are shielded from everyone else with their separate offices, secretaries, closed doors, etc. And the furtive sort of privacy you can imagine you might have in a cubicle, or if you stay at your desk during lunch. So if there is a right to privacy in the workplace, wouldn't it logically go way beyond net traffic? If it's a "right" it would have to be democratically allowed. Would being made to sit in an open, cubicle-less room then be a violation of "privacy"? Aren't these judges likely to catch a tiger by the tail if they "win"? Remember, the definition of "employee" centers on the existence of employer "control" over exactly how the employee conducts him/herself while on the job. We go to great lengths to euphemise the basic indentured servant status of the modern workplace, but it is what it is - organized control of people by other people for the profit of the owners. Deal with it. - M Peasley -
...and this one falls into the perennial "we are afraid of our children" storyline. Creepy kid with genetically anamolous mega-brain leads hordes of his machete-wielding peers into their parent's bedrooms at midnight. The mythological roots of this go back to Jason and the Argonauts, where, in that story, the women of a town all go maniacal and hack their sleeping hubbys and baby boys into chum in the dead of night. It's fun to be scared by stories like this. But it's just for fun.