Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation

So you did not notice that they didn't actual do anything...? But were happy that their mouse was moving around...?

This is what I fail to get. You give people things to work on. Why do you want to spy on them instead of just looking at the results? Even if someone spends half the time watching YouTube, if all the work is done... who cares?

A Wells Fargo spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company "holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior."

I mean the jokes write themselves

Poor Wells Fargo. Maybe they should sign a bunch of customers up to loans they didn't ask for about it to feel better.

Friendly reminder that Wells Fargo is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a bank.

A Wells Fargo spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company "holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior."

Says an unethical piece of shit corporation that secretly opened millions of unauthorized accounts of their customers to collect bogus fees, appease their shareholders and financial status.

Were the executives fired? No. Were they jailed for financial fraud? No.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations-sales-practices

If they're firing people for this then the way they judge employee productivity is incorrect. What I want to know is what did these employees even do day to day? Sounds like a whole bunch of bullshit job positions to me. Wells Fargo is a shit leech corporation, drain on society, middle-man hell.

Ah yes. Work that tracks you, not by your output, but by whether your mouse jiggles a statistically correct amount. Nice.

I use a mouse jiggler while I'm working because I often spend quite a bit of time just thinking through data structures and code composition and Teams is absolutely sure that I'm away from my desk if it's more than 5 minutes.

When I worked there, they wouldn't assign me tasks and then blamed me when nothing got done.

Is the job to be interacting with a computer for the entire duration of your shift? Fuck this incentive structure that requires people to fake touching their computer parts to show that work is being done.

maybe stop tracking people's minute movements you fucking absolute creeps

Monitoring employees in this way is just the shittiest shit of all the shit. Surely they can assess output in a different way?

We cant use the same performance metrics used in other industries on IT. I could be struggling with a coding problem for hours but it doesn't mean im not working.

I bet they forgot to rig the webcams, microphones, seat weight sensors, and infrared desk presence trackers.

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why though? Were they not getting enough done? And if its only like a dozen, does it justify the productiviry loss of hiring keyboard police?

"More than a dozen employees" for Wells Fargo is basically no one.

Management: we need to find ways to automate work using AI

So glad I work a job where if I show 'Away' on Teams no one says anything, because my work is getting done. Sounds like bad management imo.

Gee, I would think a company like Wells Fargo would want to promote these innovators to management positions.

Wells Fargo must think this is some sort of flex.

Chat-gpt can you please follow my mouse around and then just keep doing that movement for a while until I move the mouse myself? Put my video from yesterday's windows 11 recall at this time on so that any admin logging in right now can think that I'm actually working.

As a reminder, at work, an admin can login to your PC and watch a stupid mouse jiggler do its jiggling to catch you. Be smarter, work harder!

More than 12!!!! 14? Come on. It's precious few people in a company that big.

I hate cheaters

Wells Fargo

I'll allow it

What’s the best Jiggle Billy to use at work?

How did they find out?

I do this too. It's called 'software development '.

There is a device on Aliexpress that mimics the mouse usage

Awww

https://youtu.be/KUXb7do9C-w

Only reason they got got is the company used windows recall to spy on them