“Get me all reports on the espionage case.”
I notice a change. There is caution in his usually stern, authoritative voice.
“All fine, Sir?”
“Get used to changes.” He points at the camera installed in his plush office, concealing the gesture.
“Yes, Sir! You’ll have it in an hour.”
I walk out with a new learning. At any level in the hierarchy, there’s someone above you.
You are always being watched.
28 May 2021
Image credit: Miles Rost
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it’s the sign of the times. big brother is always watching for better or worse. 🙂
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Big Brother has been surpassed long back by the internet 😀😀 Thank you, Plaridel!
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I used to have a camera on me 24/7 at my old job. This is such a reality!
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The fact that it resonates with so many of us indicates a trend, but does not bode well for the future.
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100% correct. At my old job with the government there was a multi-leveled system of watching. Nothing escaped the cameras, microphones, key loggers, login logs, surfing history monitoring, nosy co-workers, secretly placed tracking devices in vehicles, and probably many more we weren’t aware of. Big Brother is alive and growing bigger and more invasive all of the time.
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I like the inclusion of nosy coworkers. They are planted at times.
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Oh I know! What bosses love to do is get some real dirt on employees and then promote them into mid-management. They then develop their grapevine of spies to do their will. I don’t miss any of that and I feel sorry for anyone still enmeshed in such messes.
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Yes, it happens. Thank you, Lisa!
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You’re welcome.
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A sad reality I fear. Great story.
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Thank you so much!
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Great story, Reena! We are being watched everywhere, which can be unsettling, and then you read about a murderer that was captured on camera resulting in being captured.
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Yeah….bad for criminals and rightly so…
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That turns the phrase ‘who watches the watchers’ upside down. It’s hard to disappear without a trace these days.
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Thanks 🙂🤔
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If you ever used a credit card, you are ‘watched’, and if you shopped in a department store, you are ‘watched’, and when you walk/drive outside in many cities, you are ‘watched.’ Then again, when people lived in small villages filled with nosy neighbors and an inquisitorial church … they were very very VERY watched. So not much is new, really … Just the modality and scope.
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Intentions, too…
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Yep
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Big Brother or Snoopy Sister…someone is always watching. Watching me has to be boring.
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I hope it drives them away 😃😃
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Big Brother has divided and multiplied. Wish I had a ten dollar bill for every traffic cam I pass on a regular basis.
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Oh, yeah….You are so right about ‘divided and multiplied’.
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indeed so be interesting at least~
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Thrilling, damn cameras are everywhere. Can’t even go to the toilet without a million people watching these days lol. Good story.
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Thank you, Mason!
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You’re welcome!
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I thought that’s what we wanted these days: to be watched
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Really? 🙂 Thank you, Neil!
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Fluent, cynical and punchy. Just what you need in an espionage thriller!
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Thank you so much!
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