Sig Heil!
"GPS devices on the rise to monitor employees; Unions decrying 'Big Brother' tactic" by Frank Eltman/Associated Press November 16, 2007
ISLIP, N.Y. - GPS tracking devices installed on government-issue vehicles are helping communities around the country reduce waste and abuse, in part by catching employees shopping, working out at the gym, or otherwise loafing while on the clock.
Yup, gonna be all up your ass while the shithole government is unaccountable to anyone!
The use of a Global Positioning System has led to firings, stoking complaints from employees and unions that the devices are intrusive, Big Brother technology. But city officials say that monitoring employees' movements has deterred abuses, saving the taxpayers money and lost productivity.
Phil Nolan, supervisor of the Long Island town of Islip;
"We can't have public resources being used on private activities - that's Management 101."
Really? Tell that to the private-contracting military, asshole.
What a bunch of fucking fascistas!
I'd shit and piss on that fucking thing, then smash it!
Islip saved nearly 14,000 gallons of gas over a three-month period from the previous year after GPS devices were installed. Nolan said that shows that employees know they are being watched and are no longer using Islip's 614 official vehicles for personal business.
Are the BOSSES BEING WATCHED? Can he go home and do stuff?
Yeah, I fucking thought so.
Let's fucking tar-and-feather these fascista fucks, whadda ya say!?
Some administrators around the country emphasized that the primary purpose of the GPS devices is not to catch people goofing off but to improve the maintenance and operation of the vehicles and to design more efficient bus, snowplow, and trash-pickup routes. Among other things, the devices can be used to alert mechanics that a car's engine is operating inefficiently.
FUCK YOU, BIG BROTHER!!!!
Always the same old, fucking lie, that this TOTALITARIAN STATE sells us -- for our own good.
FUCK OFF, FASCISTA GOVERNMENT!
Still, in Indiana, six employees of the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department lost their jobs last year after an administrator bought three Global Positioning Satellite devices out of her own pocket and switched them in and out of 12 department vehicles to nail health inspectors running personal errands on the job.
Gee, tanks Boss! Talk about an ASSHOLE BOSS!
I wouldn't be surprised if she got shot!
Employees were caught going to stores, gyms, restaurants, churches, and their homes. The administrator was reimbursed the $750 she spent on the devices.
Oh, the fascista got reimbursed.
One of those who got in trouble, 27-year employee Elaine Pruitt, decried what she called "sneaky" methods. She said she had fallen ill and stopped at her home for a lunch break, returning to work 38 minutes late.
Ms. Pruitt: "Before, as long as we got our work done, there was never any problem. All of a sudden, it became wrong if you stopped at a grocery store for some gum."
In Massachusetts two years ago, a snowplow driver was accused of hiding his GPS device in a snowbank and then going off to do some private plowing. The driver pleaded guilty to a larceny charge and was fined $300.
In Denver, 76 vehicles equipped with GPS devices this year were driven 5,000 fewer miles than the unequipped fleet had during the same period the year before.
Chris Ransom of Networkcar, one of the country's leading providers of GPS devices:
"It's growing by leaps and bounds."
Don't take a town job, then.
All about $$$$, huh, like all this fascista shit!
In Delaware, GPS was used to confirm that two employees using state vehicles were going home early, said Terry Barton Jr., fleet administrator for the state. He would not say what action, if any, was taken against the employees.
Barton: "If they're in charge of the car and they decide to go visit their Aunt Mary, we'll know that they went someplace they weren't supposed to. It has a chilling effect. If we're getting fuel reduction and fewer accidents, and having our people slowing down, it more than pays for itself."
This fucking nation sucks! AmeriKa needs to be destroyed!
The Teamsters are negotiating more contracts that protect workers from being spied on or punished as a result of the devices, union spokeswoman Leslie Miller said. She said the union's tentative contract with United Parcel Service prevents the company from firing any employee for a first offense uncovered by GPS unless there is proof of intent to defraud.
Do you have to take the thing in the shitter with you, driver?
I'd hand the boss back a bag of crap with the device, too!
A symmetric sidewinder!
Sean Thomas, chief of staff for the Manchester, N.H., mayor's office, said a plan to use GPS units on garbage trucks was scrapped after union opposition:
"They said, 'You are watching us like Big Brother.'"
Welcome to 21st-century AmeriKa!
