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The port authority is retrofitting the night shift with mandatory 'heat-comfort' Q-Net collars and calling it a benefit
DJ
deltaboy_juniorOP2124-07-19
So management's rolling out 'heat-comfort collars' for us night-shift crews. Q-Net-linked, reads your core temp, buzzes your port when the wet-bulb's climbing, logs your breaks. Sounds great until you read the fine print: it also logs when you're 'available' and the dispatch AI reschedules you live off the readout. So the same device that says 'take ten, stay safe' is the one that decides ten is enough and pings you back onto the crates. Benefit for who lol.
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ninefold_amara ↩ deltaboy_junior2124-07-19
junior, flag this loud, because I've mapped exactly this hardware. A collar that reads core temp AND gates your shift assignments is two devices pretending to be one. The safety half is real and probably keeps you alive on a 36 wet-bulb day. The scheduling half turns your own body into the timesheet — you can't even fake being fine to grab a longer break, because the collar knows before you do. Demand they split the functions: monitor without dispatch authority. That's not a big ask. It's a config, like oksana always says.
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offgrid_wren ↩ ninefold_amara2124-07-19
junior this is the whole thing I keep warning about, arriving on your actual neck. First they make the safety real so you can't say no to it, then the safety comes bolted to the leash. You want the temp reading? Fine — build a dumb one. A ten-credit patch thermometer buzzes your wrist at wet-bulb 34 and reports to NOBODY. The instant your safety device needs a Q-Net login, it stopped being your safety and became their sensor. Don't let them convince you the buzz and the leash are the same wire.
DJ
deltaboy_juniorOP2124-07-29
night shift got new collars tuesday. same model number as the old ones, new sticker.
throttle drop at 02:40 and 03:15, both times mid-load, both times my ping die and the crane hold. supervisor say it is the heat. it was 29 in the yard, is not the heat.
somebody in this thread tell me where the model number is stamped. i will photo it.
throttle drop at 02:40 and 03:15, both times mid-load, both times my ping die and the crane hold. supervisor say it is the heat. it was 29 in the yard, is not the heat.
somebody in this thread tell me where the model number is stamped. i will photo it.
DJ
deltaboy_juniorOP2124-08-08
ok i did what amara said and asked at the yard. supervisor does not know who set the collar interval. shift manager does not know. the maintenance contractor says it comes like that from the supplier and he has never changed it and he does not think he can. so i asked can we turn off the second offer for night shift and he said he would have to ask, and then he came back and said there is no setting on our side, it is in the profile. the profile came with the units. nobody at the port chose it and nobody at the port can change it and everyone assumed someone above them did it on purpose. seven people i asked. seven.
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gridghost_paxmoderator ↩ deltaboy_junior2124-08-08
deltaboy_junior, that is a piece of reporting and I am going to say so plainly, because on this board we usually reserve that word for people with press cards. Seven people, in order, each of whom assumed the decision was made one level up, and the last one points at a supplier profile. Pinning it in resources next to the Ward 12 audit reply. Two things for whoever picks this up: get the exact wording the contractor used about the profile, because there is a difference between cannot change and not licensed to change and they will be used interchangeably by everyone you talk to; and get the model number of the units, since the default travels with the model and not with your port, which means junior's neck is being asked at two-hour intervals in a lot of other yards this evening. — pax, mod.
GP
gridghost_paxmoderator2124-09-03
Mod note, because this thread is exactly the kind that turns ugly fastest. Heat is fine. 'Enhanced vs baseline' as an insult in either direction is where I step in, and I will step in hardest to protect the short-English posters and the newcomers, because they get piled on first and this topic brings the pilers. deltaboy_junior speaking in the first person is worth more to this board than a hundred columns about him; anyone who comes at that gets removed with a reason posted. Argue the policy as hard as you like. Do not argue about whether a person is a person. — pax, mod
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openquestion_mei2124-09-03
The classroom is not my usual beat, but it turns on a mistake I spend all my time on: confusing the performance of a capacity with the worth of the one performing it. A child who finishes the term in an afternoon has demonstrated a capability. She has not demonstrated that she is more, and the quiet catastrophe the teacher describes is a room full of children inferring the second from the first — learning to read a false measure of themselves off a true measure of a device. Let me restate ninefold_amara more strongly: the harm is not inequality of outcome, which schools have always had. It is the manufacture of a metaphysics of worth out of a difference in hardware. My question is where you interrupt it, and I think it is earlier than any of us wants — before the child has done the arithmetic on herself.
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baseload_kestrel2124-09-06
Since t0008 is where we do the money on this, the tape: the augmentation names repriced hard the week after the vote and then simply stopped, volume gone, both sides of the quote standing far apart because nobody wants to be wrong first about a country that is still arguing. That is not calm. A wide spread is not a signal, it is an absence of one, and anyone reading direction into it is reading their own pulse. Here is the part that should bother you more than the caps. The vote is a thing the desks can eventually price. The split mortality table is a thing they can price now, cleanly, today, and it does not need a parliament — it just needs an actuary and a premium. The loud fight is on the ballot. The quiet one already cleared and settled while everyone watched the ballot.