Voice Profiling

[ysabetwordsmith]

People use voice profiling and recording to spy on each other.

Shit like this is why I refuse to be recorded.  And that means there are things I can't get, especially services.  Remember, it's not consent if there are consequences to either choice.

Also bear in mind that when a society routinely pressures or forces people to do things they don't want, or abuses them for making choices that annoy those in power, you wind up with a really rape-friendly nation like America.  >_<

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've worked retail more recently and I was very uncomftorable with pushing the membership program.

(We were supposed to ask 2x in a transaction for nonmembers, and we needed a certain % of members to nonmembers.)

[thewayne]

I'm SO GLAD we didn't have that crap when I was in sales!  Didn't have mystery shoppers checking up on us, either.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Jobs often demand that people violate their own ethics. Another example is spying on people by demanding their name, home address, phone number, email, etc. so the company can harass them. That overall abuse of ethics is a problem because:

1) It means more ethical people quit or get fired, making it hard for them to find work and survive, which makes ethics counter-survival and thus less appealing.

2) It rewards people who have no ethics, or are willing to violate theirs on request or for a sufficient payoff. This tends to fill businesses with unethical employees. And as employers have found out, they don't just screw the customers. Unethical people also steal supplies, malinger on the job, create costly scandals, and otherwise make it harder for the business to succeed.

3) Moral injury tends to exceed the current capability of the health industry to heal. People sort of try to help if they believe it's a real problem -- which many don't -- but they're not trained in how to treat injured souls. Modern religions aren't much better at it. And you can't fix that kind of problem in an environment that compounds it anyway. So it's ubiquitous in some fields such as the health industry.

Re: Yes ...

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard of cases where the only eople who meet the impossible metrics...are the ones who fraudulently sign people up. And then if they're caught, they get fired.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's also true in debt collection. There are rules to protect people from malicious behavior by debt collectors. Following these rules results in a very low rate of collection. Abusing or assaulting people results in a much higher rate of debt collection. So employees are left to decide whether they prefer to break the law, hurt people, and possibly get punished; or lose their job.