Yore wright also.

Bravo sir! You have summed it up perfectly.

Researchers have detected researchers detecting an algorithm detecting researchers researching.

Think of the children.

If your manager has time to troll through your web activity, and what job sites you are looking at, then he has WAYYYY too much free time. If a company allows web traffic to those sites, but then flags management when that happens, that is f#$ked.

I work in an "at will" state, and yes, anyone can leave at any time.
However, HR will inform you that leaving before the normally accepted two weeks notice means you won't be considered for employment there again.

Welcome to America!

Yea, I've met more people from the Balkans who were taller than people I've met from the Low Countries.

It's all that loafing around.

Nice hair splitting.
We'll keep that in your permanent record.

Yep, to me this is a really important point.

Being a pilot has traditionally been seen as a white collar job with decent pay and benefits. However, as is usual since the "WallStreet-ization" of the American economy, where short term gains for the share holders override anything else, pilots have changed to an almost sweat shop type of a job(Feeder Airlines especially). Yes of course we can thank all the union busting that has taken place in the last 40 years or so for some of this also.

Now there are more ways to remove people from a career.
Yea, "lets get one guy in a trailer somewhere to co-pilot a hundred flights at once! Think of the money we'll save!"

Where is the end game in all this? Who will support a consumer based economy when no one is working?

We are living in the fall of The Republic and the beginning of The Empire.
This is similar to how for hundreds of years it was forbidden for Roman Troops to enter the city. Then they did.
It was forbidden to go armed into The Forum. Then they did.
It was forbidden to go armed into The Senate. Then they did.

Interesting post but you have confused two totally different issues with sci-fi writing.
1. PC/SJW bullshit to "re-educate" sci-fans according to their playbook.
2. The dystopian / post-apocalyptic subject matter that is popular in sci-fi writing.

Good Lord sir, correct you are.
I was amazed at the article and the site itself. The word pedestrian comes to mind.

Obviously this is somebodies attempt to get traffic to their site with some help from /.

Perhaps I'm the exception, but I haven't experienced this "I'm going to f#$k off for the last two weeks before I move to a different job" scenario presented here as "the norm".

Pretty much every place I've worked in IT(except one...) I literally worked until about the middle of the last day, whereupon my boss and co-workers would take me lunch and drinks, etc;

Here is really bad example:
I was the only IT person at a smallish company(~50 employees) that had three sites, with a NetWare 5 server at each location. One of the three Netware servers went down, forcing me to drive to the other site and troubleshoot the server while my going away party was in progress(thank God for backups!). I returned heroically to the party after it was over and all that was left were the leftovers...