A twenty-dollar gadget became a career killer.
Wells Fargo fired over a dozen employees for something smaller, sneakier than fraud: faking mouse movement to simulate productivity. Not stealing money—stealing time. The invisible war between surveillance and breathing room just claimed its first casualties.
Jim Stroud dissects how a simple USB device exposed the trust bankruptcy poisoning modern workplaces. When keystroke loggers meet mouse jigglers, when screen recorders battle software rebellion, the real question isn’t about productivity—it’s about survival.
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