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From: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn

Date: Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:20 AM

Subject: Office Training

To: Gengis.Khan@ArseKo.cn, Gluteus.Minimus@ArseKo.cn, Zhiang.Zemin@ArseKo.cn, Mingze.Ksi@ArseKo.cn

Cc: ArseKoAll@ArseKo.cn

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Dear ArseKo Colleagues,

We need your help with office training of rambunctious teammates. Informational messages about how you can help follow.

Kitty discipline:

As many have noticed the Grey cat has been very mean to the Orange cat, stalking and ambushing the gentle Orange giant. Grey cat is a young kitty, a mischievous teenager. He’s expected to play aggressively and not care about inadvertently terrorizing his orange friend. But Orange cat has to protect his tail and stay on alert all the time. This is not fun and makes Orange cat very sad.

We’ll try to office train the little Grey miscreant. When he acts like an outlaw cowboy, he has to wear wear his special kitty shaming sheriff deputy costume. He really doesn't like the outfit and the responsibility. Even showing the hat is enough to make the kitty behave. We're hoping a little costume play will teach the Gray cat how to live without traumatizing other felines in the office.

We the office humans are also facing a similar problem with a number of supervisors being too aggressive.

Dignity at work:

We the employees need to help management recognize when a line is crossed from aggressive management to organized workplace abuse, also known as workplace harassment, bullying and mobbing.

ArseKo professional organization has received reports, witnessed and looked into a number of patterns of behavior indicating supervisory abuse and collusion against a number individual employees.

Top management has been informed of this phenomenon and educated about how to spot workplace mobbing. But as witnessed by ArseKo professional organization representative, top management seems to have trouble recognizing abuse patterns and calling them out to encourage a healthy workplace.

In order to provide a safe and productive workplace, We The Employees will need to educate ourselves on workplace abuse patterns and learn to identify and distinguish them from acceptable managerial practices. Together we can try to find a harmonious equilibrium between management needs and employee dignity.

We will be posting the attached flyer on identifying workplace abuse in the office in hopes of raising awareness of unscrupulous tactics and giving employees a way to document any questionable actions of managers if they ever arise.

Contact ArseKo professional organization representatives if you spot any of the behavior patterns outlined or if you want to help out in any way. Even talking to someone who validates a victim's experience can often help counter most of the abuser's tactics.

Beware that confronting supervisors directly is very dangerous and can result in abuse intensifying.

Above all remember; employees are usually targeted for elimination not because they are deficient in some way, but because they are exceptional. Power dynamics bring out the darkest parts of human nature in all of us.

Avoid devaluing your peers for managerial purposes.

Power Abuse.

Establishing bounds of appropriate management techniques is a common problem that arises in group dynamics. Usually this happens when individuals with absolute authority are not checked and held responsible for abuse of power. When someone is entrusted with organizational authority, a false sense of superiority is often fostered. It becomes very easy for those on top of an organizational hierarchy to start viewing their underlings as less than, not worthy, disposable. In extreme cases managers, sometimes even unwittingly, try to enlist others into ganging up against individual employees to eliminate those deemed as unworthy scapegoats.

This practice causes great harm to the targeted employee, often the most hardworking and talented people, and disintegrates otherwise well running organizations. Large organizations like big engineering corporations or unscrupulous consulting firms can survive for decades in such toxic environment, some even successfully monetizing abuse schemes. However many start-ups fail when exposed to elimination based management practices.

As some supervisors say “Those who complain are worthless, therefore can be ignored" is a very crude self delusion immature leaders are prone to believe when first in command. When the bosses only tool is the termination's firing hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail on a targeted employee's head. A supervisor who can only lead through psychological abuse of constant fear "doesn't have to work here at ArseKo" either, as us bystanders overhear. There's one renewable resource US has in limitless abundance: middle management.

Our managers like to boast their knowledge of human psychology and a familiarity with power dynamics. These behavior patterns come from a very dark chapter in psych textbooks. As Stanford's Prison Experiment shows, anyone can be made an abusive prison guard if they are given absolute power over an unprotected population. We are not trying to single out any individual managers, but together calling out individual abuse is what keeps us all safe and productive in our workplace.

Given the diversity of cultural, racial, gender, ethnic and immigration background of our fellow employees, allowing the situation to escalate to frat levels of abuse is unacceptable. Besides destroying lives of targeted employees, mobbing organized by management also exposes our company to serious liability for discrimination and a retaliatory toxic workplace environment. (Here is an example in the news just last week https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/former-executives-at-france-telecom-go-on-trial-over-staff-suicides-orange ) Another British-French employer and his underlings got caught retaliating against workers here in Boston and are now facing 20 yrs to life for perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

The only way to stop unchecked power overreach is for us employees to present a united front against management abuse. By standing for our right to dignity at work, together we can make sure there are no sweatshops in The People's Republic of Cambridge. With or without the proverbial suicide nets. (Those of our colleagues who are obligated to file regular CCP reports, please make sure to relay this message from US workers to executive committee members. We are only acting according to the dictates of the material dialectic. Everyone will prosper better if our guests and neighbors are respectful of nuances of workplaces with American characteristics.)

Together we can help those entrusted with management power recognize their errors when they cross the line and help them become better administrators. According to systems theory, when we react in opposition to small errors, large deviations in output are stabilized. Denying measurements from an error sensor destabilizes any amplifier; be it electrical, mechanical, chemical, fiduciary or societal.

Any other suggestions are very welcome! We invite everyone to come to Organized Professionals Hoppy Hour and lets talk about how we can improve our workplace and help everyone be more happy and productive!

Thanks for bearing with us,

BT

P.S. If anyone has Agnew Spiros’s contact information we would appreciate if you could provide it to ArseKo Professional Organization representatives. We would like to send him a letter of support and appreciation for all his contribution to our common endeavors here at ArseKo. Agnew was the first person in the office in the mornings and could always be seen at his window late at night if you walked by the building. Lets see if we can help him in any way during his transition by leveraging all of our professional networks?

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Borat Taratuta

Biotronical Engineer | at Arse Robotics

A 121 Bacon St. STE 501, Somerville, MA, 02143

E borat.taratuta@ArseKo.cn

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From: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn

Date: Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:21 AM

Subject: Re: Office Training

To: Gengis.Khan@ArseKo.cn, Gluteus.Minimus@ArseKo.cn, Zhiang.Zemin@ArseKo.cn, Mingze.Ksi@ArseKo.cn

Cc: ArseKoAll@ArseKo.cn

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Dear ArseKo Colleagues,

Please see the message from HR forwarded below as an example of an over-reach for managerial purposes.

An ambiguous threat is being issued for an administrative infraction. A change in procedure was introduced, purposefully without informing some employees of rule changes, downplaying the change and then turning around and blowing up a minor clerical delay into a major infraction.

"When the bosses only tool is the termination's firing hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail on a targeted employee's head."

We strongly believe that instead of threatening, HR could simply ask for help with whatever administrative duties she needs to perform by promptly submitting the reports. For example, at one consulting company I worked at, weekly reports were used to issue billing invoices to clients, so everyone understood the importance of promptly submitting their Friday reports. Nonetheless, the accounting administrator, understanding that we're all human in an imperfectly scheduled world, enticed on-time submission with cookies and other pastry treats. You get a lot more bees with honey than vinegar.

If Mrs. Mingze Ksi needs help administer the task tracking scheme without resorting to threats, we can help. The professional organization can help review any HR proclamations and help reword them in a less alarming manner.

Employees should not be afraid to question policy to improve our processes. Administrators should not be afraid of working with professional employee organizations. Speaking of unacceptable, since, as we know, Mrs. Mingze Ksi has no problem calling for an official CCP organization in our office, she should have no problem accepting help from our professional organization as well, to offer employees a counter-balance in an unequal power situation.

Any other suggestions are very welcome!

Thanks,

BT

P.S. There are a couple issues with the new weekly report form about the timing of submission and tracking previous tasks for project tracking and planning. At the moment ArseRobotics is keeping three separate task journals because of non-overlapping data recorded. Monday submission is also helpful for refreshing employees on past week's flow and prepare for any morning status update meetings. If this arrangement does not conflict with any other administrative needs of course. Nothing that cannot be worked out, but it would be more productive to seek feedback instead of issuing threats.

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Borat Taratuta

Biotronical Engineer | at Arse Robotics

A 121 Bacon St. STE 501, Somerville, MA, 02143

E borat.taratuta@ArseKo.cn

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From: Mingze Ksi <Mingze.Ksi@ArseKo.tech>

Date: Fri, May 10, 2019 at 12:46 PM

Subject: Weekly Report Reminder

Dear ArseKoers,

Remember to submit your weekly report through the new google form: https://forms.gle/8r3myxJHjYLSBcjNA

Those who did not submit last week's report, please make it up quickly. Future late submission will not be acceptable.

Sincerely,

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Mingze Ksi

Human Resource Manager | at ArseKo

[Ed. Note: Zen must've loaded his britches mighty runny when he saw these all over the office...]

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From: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn

Date: Tue, May 14, 8:03 AM

Subject: Re: Office Training

To: Gengis.Khan@ArseKo.cn, Gluteus.Minimus@ArseKo.cn, Zhiang.Zemin@ArseKo.cn, Mingze.Ksi@ArseKo.cn

Cc: ArseKoAll@ArseKo.cn

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Dear Management,

Removing literature educating your employees about workplace abuse does not make said abuse disappear. It only shows the fear of responsibility and complicity of management in some very questionable practices.

We would not be in this situation if Mr. Gengis Khan had not tried imposing a toxic eliminationist "musical chair" termination selection policy that looked a lot like that inhuman "social credit control system" CCP has been trying to impose on the people of China over the last decade. (We have witnesses who saw Gengis Khan give the order, not Mingze Ksi as Gengis claimed later.) I blew the whistle and explained how this policy is toxic and endangered employee lives and that here in US we are trying to outlaw such barbaric managerial practices, that directly led to the abuse exposed by the courage of MeToo movement survivors. We were promised that the management understood its mistake and in the future will try to work towards a healthy and productive workplace. Instead, I was subject to organized workplace harassment, devaluation and sabotage that not only caused a great deal of pain to me personally, but also seriously delayed and jeopardized the Arse Robotics project.

We are fighting for people who don't have hands to have a chance to use modern technology to improve their lives. The markets failed to finance this technology for over two decades. The buzz around our efforts has already disrupted the markets enough to force our competitors to release imitation Arse Robotics products last month. Trying to sabotage our project for office politics was a very scummy thing to do, managers involved know who they are. Their actions caused an ongoing six month delay in hardware development that is being dumped back on Arse Robotics to finish now. We'll get it done, but don't mess with our work and expect us to be silent.

Again, instead of the totalitarian impulse to cover up and silence all dissent, our management should embrace empowered employees and use negative feedback to improve company processes. Democracy, freedom of thought and freedom of speech is what made this country the world leader in technology that we are now sharing with the people of China and the rest of the world for the betterment of humanity. Do not suppress independent thought and counter views. We understand that many of our managers' only example of leadership is red commissar rule by abuse, threats and fear. That doesn't mean they can't start to change their ways. There is a decent business school down the street from our office, try applying there for some leadership classes. I hear it helps to sneak an envelope to an athletics coach for a "side-door" entrance.

Again, management is entrusted with enormous power, privilege and benefits over us mortal at-will employees. It is very easy overreach, especially knowing that there are no consequences. There are multiple covert and overt actions of management that employees need to be aware of to protect themselves and the company from mismanagement. Trying to hide the knowledge of these schemes implies that management is intending to use these against employees and doesn't want to be called out. A few decades ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts finally required all employers to display employee rights and information about harassment after a lengthy battle of corporate HR denials vs survivor testimony. Lets not repeat this ugly history.

Thanks for bearing with us,

BT

P.S. Removing the cats to the downstairs office as punishment for educating our peers on how to protect themselves shows just how petty and passive-agressive management can get in their retaliation to deny their past actions. Taking anger out on gentle creatures who cannot protest just shows us all who you really are. I know its upsetting to have leadership mistakes called out in public, but so is publicly chastising employees, especially behind their back. Managers are not blue blooded nobility, they make many mistakes and should be made to take responsibility for their actions. Power is handed from above, Authority is earned and when abused taken away.

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?

Winston thought. 'By making him suffer', he said.

'Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?'"

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Borat Taratuta

Biotronical Engineer | at Arse Robotics

A 121 Bacon St. STE 501, Somerville, MA, 02143

E borat.taratuta@ArseKo.cn

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From: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn

Date: Thu, May 16, 6:10 PM

Subject: Troublemakers Re: Office Training

To: Zhiang.Zemin@ArseKo.cn,

Cc:

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"Its not the rebels who cause the troubles, its the troubles that cause the rebels." - Carl Oglesby

You'd be amazed how much of a bilingual conversation can be intuited by non-native speakers immersed in foreign linguistic environment for a few years. (But you already knew that, message received.)

Have a little respect for professionals who contribute so much to this business. We already stay late at night fixing the results of our management's sudden or secret decisions. We are not here to take abuse from management and will let the world know if it continues.

Instead of trying to eliminate those who rightly question decisions that affect us so negatively, I suggest you seriously look at the trauma you received while working for that evil consulting corp. PTSD is not a joke.

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Borat Taratuta

Biotronical Engineer | at Arse Robotics

A 121 Bacon St. STE 501, Somerville, MA, 02143

E borat.taratuta@ArseKo.cn

Tienanmen Burritos

Harassment continues over petty workplace issues culminating in endangerment of a patient by a competing development group.

In June Borat Taratuta puts up the required MA state required workplace posters with worker rights listed that ArseKo HR is hiding from employees.

Moony, one of the "wallet kid interns" (rich CCP connected investor's children who pad their resumes at ArseKo while serving as "investment" conduits for getting the loot out of the PRC into safe US banks) notices the "Tienanmen Sq Tankman" unionizing poster on Borat's cubicle wall. Says "what the hell?" with a surprised expression on his face.

Thanks to NLRA protections, every ArseKo CCP investor group has to walk by this throbbing middle finger penetrating the exposed rear end of CCP hypocrisy that this Huawei laundromat was broadcasting so demonstratively. Nobody complained yet...

A few days later Liu Che, Borat's supervisor, asks him to have lunch together.

Over burritos Liu Che apologizes and says that Borat Taratuta should take down the Tienanmen Sq Tankman poster. Liu Che says he fears Gengis Khan will fire Borat Taratuta because of the poster's political content.

Borat Taratuta says that this is a unionizing drive poster protected by the NLRA. As soon as Borat Taratuta is fired, he will file a claim with the NLRB and sue ArseKo for retaliation against organizing. Borat Taratuta again explains the obvious meaning of the poster and the discussions among employees that led them to conclude that power abuse is the main issue. Liu Che was present for these discussions himself, he knew exactly what Borat Taratuta was referring to, so Liu Che agreed.

Liu Che proceeded to talk about the political aspect and presented the CCP approved version that blames the victims of massacres and slanders them as "terrorists". Borat Taratuta pokes the obvious holes in the official story and proceeds to persuade Liu Che that the CCP is using the same rotten soviet propaganda to keep his eyes shut. (Wasn't hard, Liu Che says that even his professors in the states are afraid to talk about CCP's attempted extermination of Beijing in 1988.) Borat Taratuta explained how the Tankman's sacrifice directly contributed to his own freedom from bolshevik terror. Three years post-Tienanmen the much-maligned Moscowite intelligentsia, seeing full well which way the Tienanmen wind was blowing thru the Red "Other Harvard" Square, finally got off its ass, did the Tank Man's Tango and stopped GKchP's armoured personnel carriers trying to muzzle Gorby's birthmarked "pe-re-stroy-ka". Only three people were crushed that time.

Its hard to justify CCP's idiotic nationalism. Why in the 21st century, the 1.4B Chinese People's Nation should live under a rotten CCP terrorist gang installed by a Georgian bandit using Russian soldiers and a stale ideology written by some German dude hiding from Prussian prison in Victorian England?

Soviet Union lasted 73 years. Happy 70th anniversary of the CCP!

The Tienanmen Tankman Poster remains hanging above Borat Taratuta's workplace honoring the Human Fight for Freedom everywhere.