Wow, I just applied for a position at The Aerospace Corporation (which I read out loud in the same tone of voice as "the Nozzle" from Venture Bros). Thanks for the heads-up.
Glad to help.
I forgot to mention that I had had a banner year in job performance, so deserved a nice raise. Boss also said that I should be very happy with the "raise".
It does the same thing, with AES-256. Email-link or web-link. Pay for a subscription and you can have control over how long your file lives on the server.
I started with Data General in January of 1977. . . . Each year, my manager would give me "the maximum raise allowed by company policy." About 3%. "
3% is roughly the average inflation rate (which I think was even higher in the late 1970's), meaning that your "raises" were actually "pay reductions". They didn't even keep up with inflation.
I had a similar situation at The Aerospace Corporation. One year, I was told that my raise was 3.5%. I asked when the cost-of-living Increase (COLI) kicked-in. "This is it," the boss says. I noted that I had recently looked at the Government Accounting Office's Consumer Price Index (GAO CPI), which translates basically to the inflation rate, and that it was 4.3% for that year, meaning that my "RAISE" was actually a pay cut.
Unhappy manager meetings ensued, and I got a 0.7% "bonus" raise, with instructions to keep quiet about it. Fuck that! I did not keep quiet about it. Not in the least. In fact I made the GAO CPI known to every one of my colleagues.
And yes, I got the hell out of there ASAP. . . to a much better job, I might add.
Merriam-Webster: a (1) : to belong as a part, member, accessory, or product (2) : to belong as an attribute, feature, or function * the destruction pertaining to war (3) : to belong as a duty or right * rights that pertain to fatherhood b : to be appropriate to something which rule pertains?
So, the "the photo-derived biometric data" (your phrase) is an attribute or function of the image and therefore "data pertaining to the images" (your cite FTA) to be "deleted within 14 days." (It might be arguable that the raw image scan data is the image and therefore not data pertaining to the image. I do not believe that this is correct, but...)
Also, your comment about fingerprint databases is irrelevant because nobody said that anything was deleted from those databases.
I use the more-trusted American Heritage Dictionary, and as an international backup to that, the OED.
My fingerprint example was simply the best-available comparative case for discussion. Nothing more.
You should learn to quit reading things into text that were not placed by the author. Don't project your conspiratorial world-view onto things that the rest of us (thinking people) write. Put your tin-foil hat back on and go talk to some poltergeists.
No, it won't. At least, not for the reasons you claim, which are nonsense.
I'm just quoting the TSA Mission Statement articles, which, like any US Federal Agency, are written by Congress, and are Law. No Federal agency has authority beyond that to which is specifically placed under its purview.
To feed the troll by responding: I am right, and you are wrong.
My predicting when in the future specific events cannot be wrong, you douche, because it is a prediction. And if such comes to pass, it will have different wording, but will (as I predict) boil-down in some way to the reach of the DHS by its Congressional Charter.
FTA: "... According to DHS, if a U.S. citizen asks not to participate, an available CBP officer “may use manual processing to verify the individual’s identity.”"
and
FTA: "... , but DHS says that all data pertaining to the images is deleted within 14 days."
So, "If a US Citizen..." STOP right there. Hey, you TSA dipshit, I just showed you my US Passport, therefore you know for certain that I am not a foreign national, and am exempt from this facial-scanning scrutiny.
Then the deletion of "data pertaining to the images". Check your dictionary again, this time for the word "pertain". The DHS statement cannot be interpreted as them deleting data (facial-biometric-point measurements). Sure, they might delete the photos, but they will keep the photo-derived biometric data. . . for later comparison to future photos on the street? Or what? There is no prohibition of retention of this data, nor any statement relating to its future use.
It's like fingerprint databases. They don't store all of the entire fingerprints; they store the relative locations of discernible features in a given fingerprint (whorls, etc.).
So, you, the US Citizen, could be nabbed because someone committed a crime, and has the same facial-biometric profile as you. The photo of you wasn't saved––good luck proving your innocence.
FTA:The effort is in response to a years-old mandate from Congress that DHS implement a biometric system for recording the entry and exit of non–U.S. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.
The Supreme Court can strike down illegal laws, or more specifically, ones in conflict with the US Constitution. So, just having a Congressional Order doesn't make it ethical, legal, right, or enforceable.
The Department's border security and management efforts focus on three interrelated goals:
(1) Effectively secure U.S. air, land, and sea points of entry;
(2) Safeguard and streamline lawful trade and travel; and
(3) Disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal and terrorist organizations.
It's stated elsewhere on their website that their duty is "control of Customs". Any dictionary will define Customs for you: "the flow of goods into."
Someone leaving, possessing a human face, is not bringing anything into the country, and there is no law in place that states that departing people are subject to inspection. That duty is on the shoulders of the destination country. And BTW, possessing a human face... it's a part of your body, not an "item" being brought into the country.
This will get to the Supreme Court in a few years. How they rule (knowing the judges) is anyone's guess.
Not to mention, working from home as a introvert, fantastic, working from home as an extrovert, sure way to go nuts. I worked from home and enjoyed roasting a chicken for lunch, only takes a few minutes to set up at morning smoko and then set the timer and work. You check every time you stop work for your always favourite coffee and snack, always there. Then at lunch out comes the fresh roast chicken and you enjoy a great repast as you have an extended relaxing lunch whilst watching a movie and than back to work. All done in your shorts because you started work as soon as you woke up, no time lost doing anything else, except for a morning cuppa and relieving yourself as necessary. You can get a huge amount of work done by more than enough by 3 oclock even with a long lunch, stop there or work into the early evening and take the whole afternoon off tomorrow.
25 years ago, in an "Engineering Management" course that I was forced to take, there was a guy with one of those giant, primitive laptops. He spent every moment typing lecture notes, correcting his typos, formatting his notes, saving various file versions... You get the idea.
I asked him why he was wasting his time taking notes on a computer, when it was far faster to just scribble-down your own mental paraphrasing of the professor's lecture – with the bonus that this process requires thought, whereas transcribing a lecture word-for-word gains you nothing. With a huff, he said that with electronic notes, he had access to all of his notes, for any class he had ever taken, stored forever. LOL.
I don't know if he can still open his WordStar documents, but I do know that he did not do well in that "easy-A" class. I think he got a C.
AT&T is trying to merge with TW which is also part of Comcast. As if you didn't have choices before, now they'll have virtually all of the DSL, Cable and Wireless market as well as all the media companies that come along under one big corporation. I thought Ma Bell was split up to prevent these kinds of things.
It was.
Fortunately for me, as HOA president, I made sure that every unit (~100) was wired for FiOS, in addition to the existing telephone and cable. Verizon sold off its fiber-optic biz in my area to Frontier. Now we have actual market competition. (I know, it is likely brief.)
As evidence: Just last week, Frontier bumped all 50/50 Mbps clients to 100/100 Mbps. This was with no increase in monthly rates at all. I had anticipated this sort of thing, and opted to buy my home WiFi router –one capable of 300/300. In the home, between computers, we get that. To the outside world, it's 100/100 at the moment.
The video takes each clip entirely out of context. That alters Obama appears to be only focusing on.
Each conversation covered other media outlets, except for the last one, where George Stephanopolous kept prompting Obama to say "Fox News", which Obama avoided for the first few attempts.
The fact is, Fox News actually did broadcast anti-Obama pieces frequently, and even had "talking points" – specific phrases – for every talking head to repeat. . . an attempt at making something false believable if every reporter *cough* at Fox News repeated the same line. So, yes, your uncle who only watches Fox News would be un-debatable because logic** can never prevail against a mind which does not use it.
** Discussion in which only provable premises are allowed for use in the next step of the discussion thread.
Some of us are still waiting, not all Superfund cleanups are funded.
Superfund is largely funded through proving responsibility for environmental disasters, and through the law making the responsible parties pay (some multiple of actual cleanup costs).
So, Superfund gets to contamination sites as it is able. They can't do them all at once. (I figure they have an 'impact list' or something that ranks who they go after after a victory.)
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
My health insurance, with the same provider providing the same level of coverage, cost 1/3 of what it did before the ACA went into effect.
And yet, when it comes to providing healthcare for all US citizens, it's "fuck them, why should I pay for other people's healthcare".
No, you aren't compassionate and generous.
Exploitative is more accurate.
This is why I will add to my US Citizenship naturalized UK and EU citizenship within the year.
I spent 17 years training (in the US) to be a leader in my field, enhancing the economy and general welfare of US citizens, while also teaching them. A major medical injury ended that career trajectory, and the "social safety net" is telling me to go fuck off now. Back when I had just got my BS, I had several job offers on a management track, which I declined, choosing an advanced education instead. I have essentially sacrificed earning about $2,000,000 in personal salary in order to better serve my country.
The US does not have a social safety net. The US does not have a STEM shortage – just a shortage of fresh graduates who won't insist on salaries that their skills deserve. And over-skilled (read: expensive) talent that is pushed to train all of these babies with their decades of wisdom. . . just before the next round of layoffs/department eliminations/redundancy eliminations or whatever they want to call it.
In the US:
(1) Never be over-qualified
(2) Never have a major medical event You will be kicked to the curb.
Trump is continuing his attack on the Press. That is bad.
Trump is at the same time incorporating lies into his public statements. That is bad.
Both of these are behaviors of those wishing to become dictators. Read The Atlantic from a couple of months ago, the one with the cover article "How to Build an Autocracy". For your filter-check, know that The Atlantic leans slight right.
Either way, they will be lucky if they don't end up with some very serious problems along the way. It seems like it is just not possible to keep ransomware out of any decently sized network. And I can imagine a major world power's flag ship being a tempting target.
Yeah. With 1600 people on-board, not one of them will sneak in a USB stick with their porn. . . that is infected with a worm or trojan. Will never happen.
People are trustworthy, and I am sure that all of the grunts (sorry, squids) will dutifully run the most sophisticated antivirus scans available on their porn before boarding ship to leave port for sail. Don't people join the Navy primarily because they are "good at computers"?
The die-cision to use anything from Microsoft in a mission-critical environment, let alone a 16+ year old OS with a giant list of known exploits goes so far beyond amazingly stupid I can't even find the words.
So, you're saying that a country's only aircraft carrier is a mission-critical environment? How so?
Can't they just pop another one out within a month? A boat is a boat, after all.
They think that some people at the board of the carrier can fend off attacks... these attacks aren't local scale though.
P>Of course they are. The main systems aren't on the fucking internet. A Marine with a gun can stop untrusted people from attacking the system. And if you have enough redundancy in access, or trusted enough people, etc, than of course you can secure a system.
My Win 98 machine is perfectly secure. It has no access to the internet, and I don't load new software (it only exists to run some legacy code).
Likewise. Except I do need to install software occasionally. It must be a trusted source. I will download it on the MacOS side; copy it over; and install. XP is otherwise completely sand-boxed from my system AND from the internet.
I do not dual boot, but use it virtualized. My Win 8.1. . . I will dual boot into that, but only for games.
Lower management sought to bring costs "back to where they were before the wage increase." How? They cut hours, which means fewer person-hours per day to do the job. Quality or quantity will suffer.
Middle management will see the drop in gross sales –due to lower quality. Upper management will breathe fire down upon them for the lost of brand prestige or drop in quarterly profits.
Middle management will instruct lower management to staff-up in order to fix it. Workers will have schedules adjusted, then, to bring them back up to the same number of person-hours as before.
Where they will cut instead is anybody's guess. My guess: "deferred maintenance".
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Wow, I just applied for a position at The Aerospace Corporation (which I read out loud in the same tone of voice as "the Nozzle" from Venture Bros). Thanks for the heads-up.
Glad to help.
I forgot to mention that I had had a banner year in job performance, so deserved a nice raise. Boss also said that I should be very happy with the "raise".
I use to share videos of my wife
I really couldn't care less if you do or do not see the point, as long as you keep those videos of your wive coming.
Yeah. That last one was amazing! Please keep them coming.
So, kind of like wetransfer.com?
It does the same thing, with AES-256. Email-link or web-link. Pay for a subscription and you can have control over how long your file lives on the server.
Was that summary even in English? EXAMPLE:
The example clause has absolutely no actual meaning. None, whatsoever.
I started with Data General in January of 1977. . . . Each year, my manager would give me "the maximum raise allowed by company policy." About 3%. "
3% is roughly the average inflation rate (which I think was even higher in the late 1970's), meaning that your "raises" were actually "pay reductions". They didn't even keep up with inflation.
I had a similar situation at The Aerospace Corporation . One year, I was told that my raise was 3.5%. I asked when the cost-of-living Increase (COLI) kicked-in. "This is it," the boss says. I noted that I had recently looked at the Government Accounting Office's Consumer Price Index (GAO CPI), which translates basically to the inflation rate, and that it was 4.3% for that year, meaning that my "RAISE" was actually a pay cut.
Unhappy manager meetings ensued, and I got a 0.7% "bonus" raise, with instructions to keep quiet about it. Fuck that! I did not keep quiet about it. Not in the least. In fact I made the GAO CPI known to every one of my colleagues.
And yes, I got the hell out of there ASAP. . . to a much better job, I might add.
The Aerospace Corporation can chortle my balls.
Nice try? Did you check the dictionary? I did.
Merriam-Webster:
a (1) : to belong as a part, member, accessory, or product (2) : to belong as an attribute, feature, or function * the destruction pertaining to war (3) : to belong as a duty or right * rights that pertain to fatherhood
b : to be appropriate to something which rule pertains?
So, the "the photo-derived biometric data" (your phrase) is an attribute or function of the image and therefore "data pertaining to the images" (your cite FTA) to be "deleted within 14 days." ...)
(It might be arguable that the raw image scan data is the image and therefore not data pertaining to the image. I do not believe that this is correct, but
Also, your comment about fingerprint databases is irrelevant because nobody said that anything was deleted from those databases.
I use the more-trusted American Heritage Dictionary, and as an international backup to that, the OED.
My fingerprint example was simply the best-available comparative case for discussion. Nothing more.
You should learn to quit reading things into text that were not placed by the author. Don't project your conspiratorial world-view onto things that the rest of us (thinking people) write. Put your tin-foil hat back on and go talk to some poltergeists.
No, it won't. At least, not for the reasons you claim, which are nonsense.
I'm just quoting the TSA Mission Statement articles, which, like any US Federal Agency, are written by Congress, and are Law. No Federal agency has authority beyond that to which is specifically placed under its purview.
To feed the troll by responding: I am right, and you are wrong.
My predicting when in the future specific events cannot be wrong, you douche, because it is a prediction. And if such comes to pass, it will have different wording, but will (as I predict) boil-down in some way to the reach of the DHS by its Congressional Charter.
Reply in three years to tell me I wasn't wrong.
FTA: "... According to DHS, if a U.S. citizen asks not to participate, an available CBP officer “may use manual processing to verify the individual’s identity.”"
and
FTA: "... , but DHS says that all data pertaining to the images is deleted within 14 days."
So, "If a US Citizen..." STOP right there. Hey, you TSA dipshit, I just showed you my US Passport, therefore you know for certain that I am not a foreign national, and am exempt from this facial-scanning scrutiny.
Then the deletion of "data pertaining to the images". Check your dictionary again, this time for the word "pertain". The DHS statement cannot be interpreted as them deleting data (facial-biometric-point measurements). Sure, they might delete the photos, but they will keep the photo-derived biometric data. . . for later comparison to future photos on the street? Or what? There is no prohibition of retention of this data, nor any statement relating to its future use.
It's like fingerprint databases. They don't store all of the entire fingerprints; they store the relative locations of discernible features in a given fingerprint (whorls, etc.).
So, you, the US Citizen, could be nabbed because someone committed a crime, and has the same facial-biometric profile as you. The photo of you wasn't saved––good luck proving your innocence.
Yes, it is an unreasonable search.
FTA: The effort is in response to a years-old mandate from Congress that DHS implement a biometric system for recording the entry and exit of non–U.S. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.
The Supreme Court can strike down illegal laws, or more specifically, ones in conflict with the US Constitution. So, just having a Congressional Order doesn't make it ethical, legal, right, or enforceable.
Additionally, this is clearly outside of the purview of the DHS. From their Mission Statement on their own web site:
The Department's border security and management efforts focus on three interrelated goals:
(1) Effectively secure U.S. air, land, and sea points of entry;
(2) Safeguard and streamline lawful trade and travel; and
(3) Disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal and terrorist organizations.
It's stated elsewhere on their website that their duty is "control of Customs". Any dictionary will define Customs for you: "the flow of goods into."
Someone leaving, possessing a human face, is not bringing anything into the country, and there is no law in place that states that departing people are subject to inspection. That duty is on the shoulders of the destination country. And BTW, possessing a human face... it's a part of your body, not an "item" being brought into the country.
This will get to the Supreme Court in a few years. How they rule (knowing the judges) is anyone's guess.
Not to mention, working from home as a introvert, fantastic, working from home as an extrovert, sure way to go nuts. I worked from home and enjoyed roasting a chicken for lunch, only takes a few minutes to set up at morning smoko and then set the timer and work. You check every time you stop work for your always favourite coffee and snack, always there. Then at lunch out comes the fresh roast chicken and you enjoy a great repast as you have an extended relaxing lunch whilst watching a movie and than back to work. All done in your shorts because you started work as soon as you woke up, no time lost doing anything else, except for a morning cuppa and relieving yourself as necessary. You can get a huge amount of work done by more than enough by 3 oclock even with a long lunch, stop there or work into the early evening and take the whole afternoon off tomorrow.
I love you.
25 years ago, in an "Engineering Management" course that I was forced to take, there was a guy with one of those giant, primitive laptops. He spent every moment typing lecture notes, correcting his typos, formatting his notes, saving various file versions... You get the idea.
I asked him why he was wasting his time taking notes on a computer, when it was far faster to just scribble-down your own mental paraphrasing of the professor's lecture – with the bonus that this process requires thought, whereas transcribing a lecture word-for-word gains you nothing. With a huff, he said that with electronic notes, he had access to all of his notes, for any class he had ever taken, stored forever. LOL.
I don't know if he can still open his WordStar documents, but I do know that he did not do well in that "easy-A" class. I think he got a C.
If that happens, this "person" who happens to be in the oval office will be committing an act of personal vengeance using the power of his office.
That is UNACCEPTABLE. It is unethical and economically disastrous.
What kind of business environment would we be fostering if companies could not rely on being treated fairly under the law?
There is no need for me to answer your rhetorical question because anyone who has read 20th-century history can answer that question. Easily.
The answer is facile and fascinating, but I won't give any hints. . .
AT&T is trying to merge with TW which is also part of Comcast. As if you didn't have choices before, now they'll have virtually all of the DSL, Cable and Wireless market as well as all the media companies that come along under one big corporation. I thought Ma Bell was split up to prevent these kinds of things.
It was.
Fortunately for me, as HOA president, I made sure that every unit (~100) was wired for FiOS, in addition to the existing telephone and cable. Verizon sold off its fiber-optic biz in my area to Frontier. Now we have actual market competition. (I know, it is likely brief.)
As evidence: Just last week, Frontier bumped all 50/50 Mbps clients to 100/100 Mbps. This was with no increase in monthly rates at all. I had anticipated this sort of thing, and opted to buy my home WiFi router –one capable of 300/300. In the home, between computers, we get that. To the outside world, it's 100/100 at the moment.
I'll take Obama for $1000 Alex
BS.
The video takes each clip entirely out of context. That alters Obama appears to be only focusing on.
Each conversation covered other media outlets, except for the last one, where George Stephanopolous kept prompting Obama to say "Fox News", which Obama avoided for the first few attempts.
The fact is, Fox News actually did broadcast anti-Obama pieces frequently, and even had "talking points" – specific phrases – for every talking head to repeat. . . an attempt at making something false believable if every reporter *cough* at Fox News repeated the same line. So, yes, your uncle who only watches Fox News would be un-debatable because logic** can never prevail against a mind which does not use it.
** Discussion in which only provable premises are allowed for use in the next step of the discussion thread.
Some of us are still waiting, not all Superfund cleanups are funded.
Superfund is largely funded through proving responsibility for environmental disasters, and through the law making the responsible parties pay (some multiple of actual cleanup costs).
So, Superfund gets to contamination sites as it is able. They can't do them all at once. (I figure they have an 'impact list' or something that ranks who they go after after a victory.)
DISCLOSURE: Brother works for EPA on Superfund.
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
My health insurance, with the same provider providing the same level of coverage, cost 1/3 of what it did before the ACA went into effect.
And yet, when it comes to providing healthcare for all US citizens, it's "fuck them, why should I pay for other people's healthcare".
No, you aren't compassionate and generous.
Exploitative is more accurate.
This is why I will add to my US Citizenship naturalized UK and EU citizenship within the year.
I spent 17 years training (in the US) to be a leader in my field, enhancing the economy and general welfare of US citizens, while also teaching them. A major medical injury ended that career trajectory, and the "social safety net" is telling me to go fuck off now. Back when I had just got my BS, I had several job offers on a management track, which I declined, choosing an advanced education instead. I have essentially sacrificed earning about $2,000,000 in personal salary in order to better serve my country.
The US does not have a social safety net. The US does not have a STEM shortage – just a shortage of fresh graduates who won't insist on salaries that their skills deserve. And over-skilled (read: expensive) talent that is pushed to train all of these babies with their decades of wisdom. . . just before the next round of layoffs/department eliminations/redundancy eliminations or whatever they want to call it.
In the US:
(1) Never be over-qualified
(2) Never have a major medical event
You will be kicked to the curb.
No good deed goes unpunished.
It's humorous you think there's so many levels of disconnected management in small companies employing minimum wage workers.
If the chain is not on the franchise model, then this is the structure:
Bottom:
Restaurant Manager
Associate Manager
2–5 Assistant or Shift Managers
Middle:
Regional Managers (usually two layers)
Top:
Corporate Managers at the HQ.
Now wasn't that easy?
Wake me when he DOES something.
Time to wake up!
Trump is continuing his attack on the Press. That is bad.
Trump is at the same time incorporating lies into his public statements. That is bad.
Both of these are behaviors of those wishing to become dictators. Read The Atlantic from a couple of months ago, the one with the cover article "How to Build an Autocracy". For your filter-check, know that The Atlantic leans slight right.
Does Slashdot provide a convenient reference page listing the allowed non-ASCII characters?
No kidding. Why do I have to use an escape character to get an "em dash"? ––
I don't. ASCII has an en-dash, so I just combine two.
Either way, they will be lucky if they don't end up with some very serious problems along the way. It seems like it is just not possible to keep ransomware out of any decently sized network. And I can imagine a major world power's flag ship being a tempting target.
Yeah. With 1600 people on-board, not one of them will sneak in a USB stick with their porn. . . that is infected with a worm or trojan. Will never happen.
People are trustworthy, and I am sure that all of the grunts (sorry, squids) will dutifully run the most sophisticated antivirus scans available on their porn before boarding ship to leave port for sail. Don't people join the Navy primarily because they are "good at computers"?
The die-cision to use anything from Microsoft in a mission-critical environment, let alone a 16+ year old OS with a giant list of known exploits goes so far beyond amazingly stupid I can't even find the words.
So, you're saying that a country's only aircraft carrier is a mission-critical environment? How so?
Can't they just pop another one out within a month? A boat is a boat, after all.
P>Of course they are. The main systems aren't on the fucking internet. A Marine with a gun can stop untrusted people from attacking the system. And if you have enough redundancy in access, or trusted enough people, etc, than of course you can secure a system.
My Win 98 machine is perfectly secure. It has no access to the internet, and I don't load new software (it only exists to run some legacy code).
Likewise. Except I do need to install software occasionally. It must be a trusted source. I will download it on the MacOS side; copy it over; and install. XP is otherwise completely sand-boxed from my system AND from the internet.
I do not dual boot, but use it virtualized. My Win 8.1. . . I will dual boot into that, but only for games.
Everyone will be trying to share their photo of the exact same thing all at once over LTE or 4G.
This makes a lot of sense.
No. Wait. It doesn't.
This is only temporary.
Lower management sought to bring costs "back to where they were before the wage increase." How? They cut hours, which means fewer person-hours per day to do the job. Quality or quantity will suffer.
Middle management will see the drop in gross sales –due to lower quality. Upper management will breathe fire down upon them for the lost of brand prestige or drop in quarterly profits.
Middle management will instruct lower management to staff-up in order to fix it. Workers will have schedules adjusted, then, to bring them back up to the same number of person-hours as before.
Where they will cut instead is anybody's guess. My guess: "deferred maintenance".