this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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[โ€“] Krem@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it'll be cool as hell when you can just remote hack your boss's vr headset to show a fake avatar of you and your coworkers at your stations doing your work excellently, while in reality you're all 500m away smoking syntheweed and singing karaoke, and the boss is alone in the building, and also the doors are barricaded, and the building is about to be demolished

cyber-lenin

[โ€“] peeonyou@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

evil hakers

[โ€“] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Stradling a weird market between employers who can afford to have a VR headset on hand and actually give a shit about their employees being high.

[โ€“] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet it'll be for drivers.

[โ€“] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah, thats my read. or like, in the event of a worker accident-injury, compliance with the insurance company's protocols wants the test to be administered and pays for the VR headset to be available so a claim can be denied.

being able to deny a claim pays for the headset in one shot, or at least thats probably the pitch to the insurer.

[โ€“] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Ya, I could even see long haul drivers be forced to test before shift. My mind immediately goes to the cheapo EEG they keep trying to pass off as a driver attention sensor.

[โ€“] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

CEOs love wasting all of their worker's generated profits on tools used to further suppress and control those same workers. They'd literally chain people to their desk if they thought they could get away with it, productivity be damned, worker control is all.

[โ€“] abc@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

hahaha

"hey boss wants you to come into his office and put on the VR headset to see if you're high"

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

I bet there's an option to disable coke detection so that CEOs can pass the test

[โ€“] culpritus@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

VR will be like the holodeck where you can experience awe and wonder safely and cheaply.

troll

[โ€“] SoyViking@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if we waged the war on drugs with tech phrenology?

[โ€“] godlessworm@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

it measures the size of your skull and calculates how much productive capacity your brain is able to store

[โ€“] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Six minutes? What employer is to have every worker coming off break put on a VR headset for six minutes every time just to see if they hit the vape pen?

[โ€“] godlessworm@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

honestly wouldnโ€™t surprise me if they did. youโ€™d think that 6 minutes of lost productivity would be a deal breaker but the added authority and control you have over your workers would definitely make up for it to employers

[โ€“] Sickos@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Need a VR sim with such bad motion mapping that you're conditioned to puke the moment it goes on your head

[โ€“] kristina@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

When your boss checks if you had coffee and throws you out if you did