THE CREATIVE WAYS YOUR BOSS IS SPYING ON YOU

The wired link went to a "page not found" page. Tried twice.

Maybe I've already read my "couple of articles" for August.

Some idiot bosses seem to resent even your two legally mandated 10 minute breaks a day (morning and afternoon). I don't know that goofing off is needed, but working too long at something demanding leads to mistakes, and so does having someone looking over your shoulder all day or monitoring your keystrokes or whatever they're doing.

At Warner Bros. a new policy was instituted that required work orders to be approved for any little "g-job" you needed done. Prior to that I could go over to The Mill (all the shops under one roof - wood, metal, plaster, electrical, etc.) and ask for a small favor. And they would get to whenever they got to it. Like when one of our mannequins got a little shabby, we left it at the paint shop and they sprayed it when they were painting something else same color. No muss, no fuss, and no cost beyond a couple ounces of paint that was already in the sprayer and maybe 90 seconds of labor. Under the new policy it cost far more to write a request, have it approved, have the work officially scheduled, and finally have it done (if approved). It probably cost more to deny such a request than it cost to do it the old way. I suggested to my boss (I doubt the little brown-nose passed this on to her boss) that if they didn't trust department heads to keep such favors under control, they were employing the wrong people.