Walmart Just Patented Audio Surveillance Technology For Listening In On Employees

Great. I worked for years in retail and could just imagine a group of people reading transcripts of our conversations from three weeks ago. It might go something like this.

District manager: We had to get these things translated from Chinese. The employees don’t speak English half the time. I don’t understand what’s written here in the translation. Look at what this guy PS28537 said. He said, “ The chicken girl was supposed to hit airplane but she released the airplane” what the fuck are these people talking about all day at work?

Manager: sir, I think it’s some kind of slang.

District manager: slang? Like union organizing? Hire a Chinese consultant to figure out what’s going on! No unions!

Manager: Here is one for 1,000 per hour.

District manager: hire him!

A week later.

Chinese consultant: it took me eight hours to review the transcripts. The man is not talking about union activity. He said he hired a female sex worker to touch his penis but she did not show up.

District manager: dam it! I paid 8k for that! Ok. Send in the Spanish consultant and the Russian one after that. We will bust this union activity if it takes a thousand consultants.

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