How Employers Track Their Workers
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How Employers Track Their Workers
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#2How ubiquitous is this for TSA? I hear people on hackernews complain about theft from the TSA every so often, but according to this, they're being recorded so it shouldn't happen, or if it does, they should be able to prove if it was stolen by TSA.
Are people just blaming TSA for their lost things, is TSA covering up thefts that they know are happening, or what?
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#3Pretty disgusting stuff. There are plenty of places in the world where a video camera provides relief and safety, but work is rarely one. The engineers building this tech should be ashamed, they grew up to be the bad guys.
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#4These type of "tools" are used by low-lives to control people so that they feel that they have some sense of control over people. In terms of getting good hard-working motivated people to work for you, this sort of technology does exactly the opposite.
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#5How ubiquitous is this for TSA? I hear people on hackernews complain about theft from the TSA every so often, but according to this, they're being recorded so it shouldn't happen, or if it does, they should be able to prove if it was stolen by TSA. Are people just blaming TSA for their lost things, is TSA covering up thefts that they know are happening, or what?
It said they were told that's why they were being recorded, it didn't say it was true.
It's very hard to be certain what's going on unless we install tools that monitor management. On the plus side studies show this would improve their productivity.
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#6How ubiquitous is this for TSA? I hear people on hackernews complain about theft from the TSA every so often, but according to this, they're being recorded so it shouldn't happen, or if it does, they should be able to prove if it was stolen by TSA. Are people just blaming TSA for their lost things, is TSA covering up thefts that they know are happening, or what?
By "they" do you mean TSA? This is not to benefit you, it's to benefit them.
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#7Pretty disgusting stuff. There are plenty of places in the world where a video camera provides relief and safety, but work is rarely one. The engineers building this tech should be ashamed, they grew up to be the bad guys.
A few years back a guy I knew from college wanted to have a meeting with me regarding a "business opportunity".
He pitched me an idea for a system that would essentially spy on IT contractors through the webcam during work. Fortunately his budget was laughably small and my participation out of the question so he never went through with this.
He is known for being utterly shameless but I guess what other kind of person would come up with such an idea?
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#8It should be titled: How employers lose their best employees.
There are certain jobs that do require extra security and monitoring. But if a manager actually thinks their white collar underling is going to perform better, they should not be a manager.
In the case of IT people, it will probably just get hacked and disabled. I've done it at past jobs. I've also flat out refused to implement this sort of crap.
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#10Workers who are being surveiled should do the bare minimum while developing skills during free time that benefit future employers and not the current one.