[raxxorrax]

Just quit these companies. Market allows for it and when you do clearly communicate the reason. Also building tools to disrupt the metrics should be easy. Company time of course. If they ask for a high score a dependable worker delivers.

I wish they would name the large retailer. This is valuable information for workers to be informed. It is no libel in this case.

[daniel-cussen]

No, "Just quit these companies" is the 100% worst possible, least effective response. They act collectively, you realize? So the worker should fight the metric. Just ask one other worker who is as angry as you are, one with lower status than you ideally, and tell your employer "BOTH OF US are quitting if you add bossware to EITHER of us!" Makes it a little better, two versus one. Or hey, if some bosses in the company you work for add it and others don't, Oh Hey, just change department! No need for collective action if the boss doesn't act collectively.

A poster that used to frequent this forum said, "always fight the metric." You always have to fight the metric, in the end you will be JUDGED and that JUDGMENT will determine your status. Metrics are all harmful.

And beyond that, never buy into promotions, they're a mirage. There will be no promotions for the most part now that the population has peaked in the Western World. You get I don't know, $15000 and that's what you live on.

And Mexico is fusing with America at this point.

I should explain. There is en masse immigration under the smiling eyes of the president, but like an order of magnitude greater than it used to be. Order of magnitude (literally 10x) for Brazilians, Haitians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians. Mexicans? Who knows. Hard to count if there's no counting. There's no counting. You just walk and you're in. No enforcement. In fact the biggest form of enforcement is the Feds cracking down on "la migra" meaning Department of Homeland Security.

So let us not speak of problems, opinions, whether it's good or bad. But the concept of the American worker earning a premium wage purely because of his nationality is vanishing if it has not vanished already. I heard it described as a luxury the United States could afford to keep its people happy. Or did once.

So now we enter a world of much lower incomes than Americans had, but also with much greater uniformity. What do you get? You get $15000. Run out of money? Budget better! Don't eat for a few days! It is always better to fast than accept offers of credit.