Posted on 06/13/2024 10:22:33 PM PDT by thecodont
Wells Fargo, the San Francisco-based banking giant, has fired a small group of employees who allegedly tampered with their computers to fake the appearance of working.
The company’s St. Louis-based subsidiary, Wells Fargo Clearing Services, filed five disclosures with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority saying that it had fired workers in early May. Each disclosure said the worker was “discharged after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work.”
Bloomberg, which first reported the firings on Thursday, wrote that “more than a dozen” employees were fired from Wells Fargo’s wealth and investment management arm. SFGATE only found the five disclosures, along with another saying that a worker had voluntarily resigned in April, after the allegations.
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Laurie Kight, a spokesperson for Wells Fargo, told SFGATE, “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior.” She did not answer questions about what prompted the review or the number of workers involved.
It’s unclear from the disclosures exactly how the workers may have simulated “keyboard activity,” but it would likely be an effort to dupe their bosses while working remotely. During the early pandemic, mouse “jigglers” and automatic button-pressers became newly valuable to work-from-home employees who wanted to keep their accounts “online” even when away from their desks, according to Bloomberg.
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[“But it HAD to be 14 consecutive days in a row.” :)]
I worked for and was employed by the Department of Redundancy Department!!!!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
really hope you attained and got Top Dog, Big Kahuna, bawanna, most High Potentate, the Big Cheese, bossman in yer guvmnt secretariat dept workin place that you work in.
LOL
I remember an old-school app, I guess it was an init, which used a hot-click in a corner of the screen to throw a phony but apparently working spreadsheet up to cover the browser nonsense or gaming that was really going on during work hours.
I also remember a coworker who sat near the elevator and the men's room used by the execs was near there. When some brass would come off the elevator, she'd start moving her hands around above the desk, as if she were doing something, or would pick up the receiver and push some buttons. She did more work avoiding work that most people do just working. :^)
sidebar, WFC was down, and only generates a bit more than 2% yield.
I would bet only a tenth of the federal workforce does any real work. 90% do nothing all day, especially those that have a Washington DC office. /spit
All you need is a little Windows Script to simulate a keyboard press every few seconds. Most companies won’t allow .Exe’s so a little script will do the trick. Just add a little screen candy to show that it’s working. Took 5 minutes.
All you need is a little Windows Script to simulate a keyboard press every few seconds. Most companies won’t allow .Exe’s so a little script will do the trick. Just add a little screen candy to show that it’s working. Took 5 minutes.
I forget which department it was, Commerce, Education, something like that had around 80% of their employees who were “working” from home never once log in to the network in two years.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2004679744/
As a night telegraph operator, Thomas A. Edison’s propensity to sleep was the mother of his first invention
This is what working from home will get you....
WELLS FARGO needs a complete revamp.
One of the oldest dead giveaways about the company bookkeeper being up to no good is that “HE/SHE NEVER wants to take a vacation.
They do not want ANY OTHER person to see what they are doing.
Have found embezzlers in my bookkeeping/accounting life...
ONE was a highly thought of VP who had been with the company for many years. I was making about $6 an hour when I tripped him up...HE was frog marched out the door when further audits traced his behavior. Not SAYING more-— but I still enjoy the fact that I caught him.
I will NEVER use BANK OF AMERICA or WELLS FARGO.
WILL PURCHASE postal money orders if I have to.
wow
The funniest take away is that Wells Fargo does not tolerate unethical behavior.
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