Put In line ahead of the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation

You may have heard a story percolating online about a company that is demanding that its workers basically sign over their stimulus checks to them, including 50% of those for dependents.

Now we hear of an Oklahoma based printer and printer support company demanding that its employees give their stimulus checks to them.

Note that this company does over $100,000,000.00 year in business, so one would assume that they have the resources to weather this storm, PARTICULARLY since their business falls into the category of “essential”, and work from home would make their services even MORE demand.

One of the few positive things about the Coronavirus pandemic is that it shows us just how greedy, heartless and merciless some corporations can truly be. For example, we have learned via the Ogle Mole Network that ImageNet Consulting – an Oklahoma City-based “Information Technology Solutions” firm that sells high-dollar copiers, scanners, and IT services to companies all across the country – wanted their remaining employees to forfeit a portion of their April paycheck that is equal to the amount they will receive from their government-issued Coronavirus stimulus payment. Basically, ImageNet Consulting came up with a plan to pocket their employees’ stimulus checks! The move came after the company had already conducted mass layoffs as a result of the pandemic. It was first kind of reported by KXAN out of Austin, which is home to an ImageNet Consulting branch.

KXAN did not name the company, but The Lost Ogle did.

What, you have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism, comrade?©®™

You can find a link (PDF) to the agreement that they want employees to sign here.

Note that now that this has hit the net, the company is minimizing its online presence, with things like its Linkedin page going private.

I will cite a tweet to remind you that however you respond, social distancing is to be maintained:

x I get all the guillotine jokes. I do. but in a moment of crisis like this, those kinds of jokes are inappropriate and dangerous. You can't maintain proper social distancing with a guillotine. Be responsible and use RANGED weaponry (at least 2 METER range) per CDC recommendations. — LMVT Catmin (@LMVTACAB) March 26, 2020

More seriously, if you are in a position to nogitiate contracts with a printer supplier, make sure that these folks do not make the first cut. (Pun not intended)