Day 4416: Fired for Faking, You can call me Thelma?

"Survivors": junk collage, acrylics.

       

  

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Click : Lenny Kravitz, It Ain't Over

  

 

 

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Employees Fired 

for Faking Being at Their Desk

More than a dozen Wells Fargo bank staffers were let go for "simulating keyboard activity" while they were likely doing something else.

Over a dozen Wells Fargo employees were fired last month for trying to fool their bosses into thinking they were working when they were not, as first reported by Bloomberg Thursday. It seems they were unsuccessful. A regulatory filing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) says the bank investigated the staff’s “simulation of keyboard activity” and let some folks go who were creating the “impression of active work.”

While the filing doesn’t specify further, it appears to be referring to “mouse jigglers” that took off during the pandemic. These devices sit on your mouse or trackpad and periodically move it an inch, to simulate an active status on your work computer. You can find them on Amazon for $20 to $30, but if you’re not careful, it could also cost you your job.

Most of these employees were relatively recent hires, but one had worked with the bank for more than seven years, according to The Financial Times. It’s unclear exactly how Wells Fargo caught these employees.

Technology writer and lawyer Paul Skallas writes that it’s important to plug your mouse jiggler into a separate electrical socket. Skallas notes that plugging one into the USB on your laptop can let your company know you are using one.

I guess you can call me Thelma?

Jordan (GH#1) & Thelma

I have my upcoming double cataract surgery next week, in fact I will have new eyes they tell me. I am ready. I was at lunch today with great friend, Carole and I couldn't read the menu! And that is with my newest prescription glasses. Mt left eye is my close up eye, but now on AWOL  So I have been wearing my glasses all the time, since I can't wear contacts. WonderWoman hadn't seen me with the rimmed glasses, and because of my hairstyle, she said I looked like Thelma of the Scooby-Doo gang?

What? "You know, THELMA!"I rattled a few brain cells and found her way in the back burners.

           

And when I thought about it, it kinda made sense? She always wore baggy tops, so do I.  She loves a Great Dane, (Scooby Doo) and so do I (all Great Danes + boyfriend Ethan). And, most of all, wasn't she the smart one? 

                         

 

  

 

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