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  • Tom posted an update 4 years, 12 months ago

    An example of what I’m sure will be one of a myriad of techniques of social crediting, I work for a giant corporation, weekly testing is mandatory but vaccines are not, at least not yet. However, if you get it there’s an online form you’re supposed to fill out indicating you took the jab with details about it. Those people will have an icon next to their name on the internal company website. How’s that for subtle pressure, you want to advance your career, no icon ? Good luck.

    • God help us. You must leave the corporate den of Satan. The exodus is now.

      • Social engineering at it’s finest. Egads how crude.

        • Having already resigned myself to, at some time , losing my job, its fascinating having a front row seat to this. And yeah, it’s pretty crude depending on your view.

            • Almost 30 years ago, before I got hired by a corporation in the Pacific Northwest, my “boss” was an elderly lady who took the advice of a man who was known to beat women, and though he was married, he had many ladies who would lay with him, even though he abused them. He told her, “He is not one of us” (I found this statement revealing), and at that time I did not get hired (I was working through a temporary service). Later I did get hired through a different department, and found this information after the fact. This was the home office of a relatively large corporation. It’s now a parking lot…. Corporations are where you go to die, sell your soul for a few coins, or the illusion of security through slavery.

            • At the risk of stating the obvious, social media and the sharing economy have been conditioning people for this kind of social pressure for years now. Blue checks… star ratings on Uber… the examples are endless. I always wondered why that had become such a craze. Now I see.

              I feel a bit like what Tom said: I’ve reconciled myself to the fact that I live in tumultuous times, and now it feels like I have a front-row seat to watch an epic saga unfold. It might not get much better in my lifetime, but I believe it will come out right in the end. So I really like the idea that Dr. Farrell has advocated: preserving bits of the culture for future generations.

              • My grade primary teacher was stingy about giving us stick on gold stars but she was a childless old batch anyway. So, we didn’t care and just waited for the buzzer to sound…day after day. Perhaps even as 5 year olds we were more patient back then.