I had the misfortune of working for a company that tied their bonuses and employment evaluations based on this five-star record crap. This was in medicine. So my "approval" was based on stupid shit like how satisfied they were with the front desk staff, which I explicitly had no control over. Then a bunch of the senior members in the corporation were gaming the situation, doing things like hijacking the dumbass messages that they sent to patients(*) that most didn't respond to.

* -- The system that they had would keep a log of all text messages sent to patients. As soon as the patient was discharged, it would send a text message to the patient asking them for an evaluation. These clowns would hijack it and give a 5-star review. If the patient actually bothered to respond to it, it would then say something like "Thank you for your review" and not even prompt them. They used this to scam the entire system.

And yes, this place was an utter shithole to work in, and it's the only place in my history that I actually went out of my way to get myself fired. If I'd quit, they had a clause that I had to pay $30,000 if I didn't give a 90 day notice. (I kid you not.) To this day, they are still posting ads trying to snare people for about 50% of the market rate for physicians.

The entire idea of the 5-star system is stupid. By definition, average would be 3-stars. But try explaining this to the legions of dumbass MBAs running things.

Gentoo FTW! /s

How many people did they get to harass just because they were having electricity usage, that they are paying for, which was "too high?" Some peoples' usage is going to be higher just because they work from home, enjoy their air conditioning, and maybe have a server farm or something.

A few years ago I was working in a clinic in the South. It was during the COVID-19 nonsense. Some woman brought her kid in and wanted the physician assistant to write a medical letter saying that the kid couldn't go to school and needed private tutoring at home. He wouldn't do it. She goes flipping crazy and starts threatening to shoot up the clinic. She then goes out in the front of the clinic and proceeds to scream obscenities for about 20 minutes.

Of course, the cops were called by about four of us in the office. Two hours later a cop shows up, and says that since she eventually left during that time frame they couldn't do anything. Being the ranking guy in the clinic, I shut it down and closed it. While I was doing that, my PA went out and retrieved his gun from his car. I have no doubt that had she walked back in there, she'd be pushing up daisies.

Incidentally, I turned that cop into Internal Affairs. His lieutenant was pretty pissed when I talked to him.

Remember, when seconds count, the cops are only minutes (or hours) away. The Supreme Court ruled quite a while back that the police aren't really required to protect citizens.

A few years ago there was a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. The only reason I wasn't caught in the store when it happened is that I did a late checkout at my hotel.

And as mentioned above, if someone has my name it's trivial to find my address. Hell, it's mandatorily put on a government web site. (Yes, my home address.) So when I turned someone in for child abuse who happened to be in MS-13 (found out later), you're damned right that I have guns in my house.

Anyone worried about this might consider buying a Glock.

Admiral! There be whales here!

So I have my attack drones land in the forest and wait 24 hours, then swarm attack the Kremlin. Or I use a link that doesn't involve the cellular network. Or I make the thing autonomous. Or I buy Russian SIM cards and install them in the drones.

Seriously, how incompetent is the Russian government? They seriously need to lay off the vodka.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.