"Productivity" is a way to convince you to equate your value as a person with how much of the fruits of your labor you hand over to the ownership class.
While the response you got was probably an overreaction, if you stated it exactly this way, that was the trigger.
"I want to know how much I have to work" will suggest that you don't want to work. A better way to phrase it would have been with your first question:
"Hi, I'm A and tomorrow I'll be working with you. I don't usually work there, and I wanted to make sure I was prepared for the workload. About how many patients do you have?"
That tells them that you do want to work. Slotting the word "about" in there lets them know that you don't expect an exact number (that they would have to shift their own brain gears to go look up), and gives them the option of saying something like "pretty quiet right now" or "it's crazy, I gotta go, see you tomorrow."
Primary was to stand perfectly still, arms out, get tagged immediately, go sit down.
On the days that I felt like being a little fuck, I played full "dodge" at the far back of the court, and never threw anything back. Just waited until all of the balls were on my side of the court. Game over.
Fuck em. I was a conscientious objector in dodgeball.
Imagine that your level of self-confidence is zero. You feel utterly powerless. You have no control of anything. No choices you make are your own.
How do you prove - to the world and to yourself - that you are in control, that you are powerful? You make the worst decisions possible.
Wait, what? What does that accomplish?
See, if you were to make a good decision, how does anyone know it was your decision? If you make a good decision, you're just "doing what you're supposed to." You're "doing what other people want you to do." By making decisions that nobody wants you to make, you are most definitely "in control." Those worst decisions are yours, and nobody else's.
Bad decisions are a demonstration of power, to the world and to themselves. And every time those bad decisions are criticized without any real consequence, that power is reinforced. The criticism is part of the power play.
They can do anything they want, and they prove it every day by making the worst decisions.
I'm not sure of the size of the transponder, but what I am reading is that it would require two antennas, one above and one below the aircraft, and I think it runs on 24V, so you'd need a 24V power source.
Certainly wouldn't be out of the question for it to be carried by a drone, but I don't think it would have to be. I'm also now thinking that the drone could carry "enough equipment" to send location data back to a ground controller where the transponder and power equipment is? That would probably be easier to rig up than trying to interface directly with the transponder and give it false data. Though I couldn't say what the antenna inputs are looking for, that could be an easy interface to fool the TCAS, too.
My bigger concern is who was able to get their hands on a TCAS and then also has the cohones to fuck with air traffic around National?
I just came across this posted elsewhere. Sound familiar at all?
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/i-spoke-to-a-task-scammer-heres-how-it-went