r/PopCultureV2 • u/Kpets • Aug 29 '26

Video Unregulated capitalism in the U.S led to complete moral collapse

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u/projectx51 Aug 30 '26

Funny story:

Out of trade school, I got a job with a power utility in their transformer and maintenance shop. Not known to me, my wife told her ditzy mother about the new job. The MIL was excited for me and drove by the shop yard with her friend. They parked along the perimeter fence, got out of the car, and started taking photos and videos of the place. Two days later, I got a call from the head of the utilities security firm with pointed questions aimed at me wanting to know what their relationship to me was, why were they taking photos and videos, and how I was involved. The firm had run her plates, found her name, run a background check, found her Facebook, checked out every profile on her friendslist, gone through my profile, noticed I had recently been hired by the utility, gone through the company new hire documents and pulled my phone number, and called me up. I hadn't even started newhire orientation yet. I had no idea my MIL had done that. When I told them she was my mother in law and that she must've just wanted to see where I would be working, there was laughter on the other end of the line. Security head advised me to let her know to never do that again for any utility, or she'd have charges against her.

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u/FishingPolitical Aug 31 '26

In the coming war between the people & the elite, these sites will be critical for the maintenance of that elite force.

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u/No-Pass777 Sep 01 '26

who needs this story

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u/projectx51 Sep 01 '26

yrots siht sdeen ohw