My Boss is now a robot

Millions of low-paid workers’ lives are increasingly governed by software and algorithms. This was starkly illustrated by a report last week that Amazon.com tracks the productivity of its employees and regularly fires those who underperform, with little human intervention.  Amazon employees have complained of being monitored continuously—even having bathroom breaks measured—and being held to ever-rising productivity benchmarks.   WSJ

My boss is now a robot, a machine that keeps an eye

on all my daily labors and will never tell me 'hi.'

It knows when I come in to work; it knows about my breaks;

it measures toilet water when I go into the jakes.

At meetings if I start to nod, a drone will buzz my ear.

No matter where I gossip my new boss can overhear.

And if I check my Facebook page a siren just may sound,

and all my desktop pics and plants some robot will impound.

If I try for promotion in this crazy mixed up place,

it means I'll be a cyborg and forget the human race.

Algorithms hound me; they are passionless and smug.

(I think it's time we all arose and pulled their cursed plug!)