your job, their data: the most important untold story about the future

[bcbm]

How employers bring "big data" to bear on hiring and management could be the defining issue of our times.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/your-job-their-data-the-most-important-untold-story-about-the-future/281733/

[Remus Bleys]

That's really messed up. I wonder how many people got fired for not smiling enough, though.

[Ele'ill]

That's really messed up. I wonder how many people got fired for not smiling enough, though.

probably a lot of people maybe not as the official reason but in the past i've been talked to about it by the boss pigs. probably a lot of folks in the service industries have been fired for it

[blake 3:17]

Seriously scary! Thanks! Let's bring down the kapitalist panopticon!

[Sinister Intents]

I remember my teacher in my first marketing class discussing this with students, quite disturbing..... I hate capitalism

[bcbm]

i think the few bits where the author tries to press that it could be a good thing by actually introducing some real meritocratic standards are the most interesting/depressing. like anything behind this will matter except for making money

[blake 3:17]

probably a lot of people maybe not as the official reason but in the past i've been talked to about it by the boss pigs. probably a lot of folks in the service industries have been fired for it


It'd also be used as a TQM thing to scare the shit out of workers.

I knew a brother through the Teamsters who had crazy stories about how UPS demanded that drivers/deliverers had to hold their keys in certain positions when not in use --- it was fucked up. So if you were left handed, you still had to keep the keys in a way a right handed person would. Super weird and short term inefficient but extremely militarized with loyalty to the company beyond anything else.

The internalization of this is very very dangerous.

[blake 3:17]

I was going to grouse but this is awesome!



More than 100 kids and parents formed a noisy, bouncing show of support for their neighbourhood’s dancing crossing guard on Monday.

The lunchtime dance party was called after police last week told Kathleen Byers that her dancing put students’ safety at risk as they crossed Dufferin St. south of Dundas St. W., and ordered her to stop. Byers’ moves — and her enthusiasm for her job — have made her a beloved figure in the community.
“I’m overwhelmed, and just joyful at all the support,” said Byers, whose dancing continued on Monday, though mostly on the sidewalk. “It just shows me that what I’m doing is not wrong.”
Students from Alexander Muir/Gladstone Avenue school and Grove Community School held up signs and chanted “Let Kathleen dance!” as Byers manned the intersection in front of them. One dad with a guitar led the crowd in a round of “Footloose,” the title track from the Kevin Bacon movie (and 2011 remake) about teenagers rebelling against their small town’s ban on dancing.


http://www.thestar.com/life/2013/12/09/dancing_crossing_guards_supporters_rally_at_crossw alk.html

[ckaihatsu]

It'd also be used as a TQM thing to scare the shit out of workers.




I knew a brother through the Teamsters who had crazy stories about how UPS demanded that drivers/deliverers had to hold their keys in certain positions when not in use --- it was fucked up. So if you were left handed, you still had to keep the keys in a way a right handed person would. Super weird and short term inefficient but extremely militarized with loyalty to the company beyond anything else.


'Micromanagement'.





The internalization of this is very very dangerous.