AT&T Persecutes Its Own Retired Employees -- Breach Fatigue -- Couch Potato Congress

The former programmer and human-resources worker is among potentially hundreds of ex-employees whom AT&T Inc. has dunned in recent years for what it calls pension “overpayments.” AT&T sometimes has enlisted a collection agency to recover the money, a move retiree advocates, pension lawyers and some former Treasury Department officials call unusual.   WSJ

The biggest corporations are the meanest ones when they

go after little people who they want to force to pay

for bookkeeping kerfuffles that were not the small fry's fault --

these giant corporations all have hearts made of basalt.

Never think an octopus has generosity;

what they give with one hand they take back eventually. 

“We may adjust to this being the ‘new normal,’” he said, adding that “digital natives and younger generations may perceive their personal data — in a distorted sense — to never have been private, so what’s the big deal with it leaking out on the web anyway?”  Experts call this behavior “breach fatigue.”    NYT

I guess my private data isn't private anymore.
It's public as a billboard and I don't feel very sore.
If someone opens up accounts in my name, that's okay;
my credit score is low enough that I won't have to pay.
And if they use my name and pix on dating apps, well then--
if the girl is pretty I can only say 'amen.' 
Someday I'm going off the grid, and then Big Data can
find out all about me only from my used bedpan . . . 

Veteran senators on both sides of the aisle are angry about the decision because it feeds the idea that they just want a long vacation and that Congress is a lazy institution that just needs to work harder.   Washington Post

A Congressman once was so slack
he liked to sleep in and not yak.
He figured the less
he did was success --
and voters kept sending him back.