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Despite those benefits, computer supervision has a dark side that is becoming a major issue for workers, labor leaders and scholars. The ability to record so much information about an employee could tempt managers to snoop too deeply into personal behavior and invade privacy. Just as ominously, the pressure of being monitored every second is already producing undesirable side effects in some workers, notably high stress and low morale. Declares Karen Nussbaum, director of 9 to 5, a national group of workingwomen: "The potential for corporate abuse is staggering. It puts you under the gun in the short...
...keep their hands to themselves. They neck furiously as a young customer enters the store. Stani squats behind the counter and strokes Paulina's thigh while foraging for another customer's potatoes. Everybody in town knows about them: Paulina's neurotic bookkeeper (Elisabeth Trissenaar), the snoop-exhibitionist next door (Marie-Christine Barrault), even Paulina's seven-year-old son. He discovers them flagrante delicto in the storeroom; Mama eyes him solemnly, closes the door and returns to her pleasure. "Me, beautiful?" Paulina remarks to Stani. "But I could be your mother." And Stani replies: "My mother...
...every great writer's widow or lover who wants to destroy letters and diaries containing the secrets of the past, there is some literary snoop who longs to publish them. Such a struggle is the theme of Henry James' The Aspern Papers, and that marvelous 1888 novella is in turn the inspiration for The Golden Age, A.R. Gurney's comic update, which opened on Broadway two weeks...
...calls were flooding Abrams' office because he had become suspicious after hearing the radio spots and asked some of his aides to snoop around. Oddly enough, they could find no complaints against Saxon and his firm, Bullion Reserve of North America. It had headquarters in Los Angeles and offices in Dallas and Hong Kong. No one in gold trading in New York seemed to know Saxon well, but his company was paying its bills. On instinct, Abrams' men asked Richard Arfa, a vice president of Bullion Reserve, to produce financial records. Arfa stalled and questioned Abrams'jurisdiction...
...even the beings that have become extinct usually have approximate, living counterparts that Attenborough and his camera crews can pursue, as they snoop, like scientific paparazzi, on the private lives of all creatures great and small. Probably never has any program shown so many forms of courtship and copulation: millipedes writhing in combinations too complicated to comprehend, goggle-eyed newts climbing atop each other, fish defying the hazards of nature to bring sperm to egg, frogs singing hoarse epithalamiums in ponds and swamps. Only fast-flying swifts, which mate on the wing, seem able to escape the prying lens...