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ArugulaZ, to tech in Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’
@ArugulaZ@kbin.social avatar

"I don't have any proof, but I want it real bad, so I've got to be right."

minnieo, (edited ) to technology in Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same
@minnieo@kbin.social avatar

this is gonna go nowhere per usual, but still, the very idea of working in your dreams is fucking horrifying. black mirror type shit.

HarkMahlberg, to technology in Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.social avatar

Your waking life for minimum wage and your dreams for free.

Colour_me_triggered, to technology in Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same

I thought sleep was supposed to be my time.

palordrolap, to tech in Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’

It's "better" because it keeps the yoke of oppression on the staff, and pathological managers absolutely love that kind of control. Ditto the ability to supervise / micromanage / breathe down people's necks.

This manager may not yet have had as direct a revelation as to be able to put the above into words, but they know what they like.

0x0001, to tech in Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’

RTO = return to office apparently

idiocracy, to games in Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial

takes one to know one

TubeTalkerX,

Look at the pot calling the kettle black!

CaptPretentious, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

20 years ago I worked as a bill collector. The company I worked for would buy out the accounts that the primary company felt they couldn’t collect on and have basically given up. So we’d buy your debt (at a steep discount) and then try to collect from you.

It disappointed me the number of parents I talked to who not only committed fraud on their own kids but legit did not care, zero remorse. Some of them would even laugh at me and say “well they’re only three so what are you going to do!?”.

I felt so bad for the kids. Those are the kids that are entering college and the workforce right now.

Xavier, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

Please freeze your credit file at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It’s free and you can unfreeze it anytime you want (or whenever you judge its a valid credit check for something you actually requested yourself).

Whether you have a low/medium/good/perfect credit score and are satified with the credit cards and mortgage/loans you already have or lived without ever having a credit card and loans, it is of utmost importance to freeze your credit files to preempt any future identity theft from becoming a life upending disaster.

Some helpful links:

American Express | How to Freeze Your Credit at All 3 Bureaus—For Free

nerdwallet | How to Freeze Your Credit

Federal Trade Commission | What To Know About Credit Freezes and Fraud Alerts

For the fellow Canadians reading this, freezing your credit file has been enshrined in law in Québec since February 2023. I have frozen mine on the first week of February. However, I am unaware of the availability of that option in other provinces, please check with your bank or provincial service bureau (equivalent to Services Québec here) or directly contact Equifax and TransUnion.

White_Flight, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

that’s fucked

MystikIncarnate, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

So now the youth are being screwed over by their own parents. Cool. Coolcoolcoolcoolcool.

Is this another unprecedented, once in a millennia event too? Just like the previous five or six atrocities?

Anyone else want to fuck up the zoomers while we’re at it?

OneWomanCreamTeam,

I mean this has been going on since at least the 90’s.

MystikIncarnate,

Don’t remind me.

The 90’s were pretty wild in terms of what was considered “normal” or “okay”.

Affidavit, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

Why would any child need to take out a bank loan anyway? I feel like this is an easy fix by setting an age limit.

Smoogs, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

Given that you require 3 step authorization just to access your bank, there is no reason credit card companies should be giving out credit cards so easily in this day and age based on name alone. Heck setting up an account for a phone is more secure than credit cards and I think what these companies are doing is intentional so they can legally ruin people and absolve themselves of any unethical behaviour.

Smokeydope, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process
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The amount of people in the comments whos parents did that to them is fucked up how is this so common

callouscomic, to news in Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process

I suspect this was done to me. I found out my SS and name was used for various utilities related things back when I was a young child. When asked, my parents insisted some OTHER family members must have done it, and they never answered how the hell other family members got my SS when my parents are typically super secretive and protective of info like that.

I still don’t believe them.

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