It’s a wash!

Pissed off Clinton Supporters will be voting for McCain, pissed off Right Wing Wackos will vote for anyone but McCain. Oooooo this is going to be fun. Prick Keith Olberman bailing on Clinton! Is this how true Centrism starts?

New Way of Honesty Scares Unions

It’s no surprise that the Unions of the US have taken on the idea of employers asking for worker honesty. Many businesses are beginning to install biometric palm or fingerprint readers as a way for their workers to clock in and out It appears that Unions are against keeping workers honest.

“The bottom line is that these palm scanners are designed to exercise more control over the workforce,” said Claude Fort, president of Local 375. “They aren’t there for security purposes. It has nothing to do with productivity. … It is about control, and that is what makes us nervous.”

Did I read that correct? The unions are nervous and complaining that employers have the nerve to expect a little control over their workforce? I imagine Claude Fort is of the belief that he deserves 30 minutes of time off to stand around the back door and smoke cigarettes and expect his employer to pay him for it. American workers are so spoiled that they believe it is their right to falsify their time cards and be able to come and go from their job without their employers consent. Where are the rights of Employers to see that their investment in an employee is money well spent. Employers, you know, the ones who pay their employees for an honest days work. Isn’t it within their right to install a device that shows the actual hours work as opposed to having a bunch of asshole union workers having their buddies clock them in

Another benefit of the system is curtailing fraud. Several times each year, New York City’s Department of Investigation charges city employees with taking unauthorized time off and falsifying time-cards to make it looked as though they worked.

Of course, this is a workers right Unions typically fight for, that is, the right to screw their employers.

Don’t start on the right to privacy bull shit. I use a fingerprint reader everyday and I have no reason to suspect that my fingerprint is used for anything other than the purpose it was explicitly designed. Anyone who believes that these devices are somehow connected to a government network to track people have watched way too many episodes of the X-Files.

If you’re nervous about the government tracking, take up a real cause like DNA databases and tracking. I know it’s real because I saw it on the X Files.