I have become Big Brother see-er of all...

[MC Moot]

At our new building of employment I have been entrusted with access to the new security system, which essentially allows me to remotely watch every office,hallway,nook and cranny of the new site...this has been made allowed to managers and oh so important exec's...I've always had mixed emotions about the installation of cameras in the work place when I see that they may be used for other purposes besides employee and facility security...I'm not a fan of CCTV and would consider myself to be a privacy advocate...the people whom I work with are not adjusting to the presence of the cameras well and I feel myself being socially isolated or considered to now be invasive...this is even though I have stated that i have no intention of watching their workspace...hell, I have no intention of even using the damn system...but the fact that I can is pissing off my peeps and causing estrangement throughout the joint...Are you monitored at work?...to what end and for what purpose?...How do you feel about the validity of it?...do you feel suspected or intruded upon?...Would you refuse employment on these grounds?...Or is just the way technology is shaping our environment and eventually people will adjust and assimilate?

P.S: I'm pretty sure they're going for drinks today and I've yet to be included...when I used to the point man fer post-work pints...hmmmmm...

[Myu-to]

Lots of questions, there, I can only answer a few. If where I worked was dangerous, had expensive stuff, in need of high security, then I would not mind. If it was just an office job, I would mind. A lot. I can't stand to be micro-managed, and I would feel like the bosses are watching me. In my old company, this one part-owner was always snooping around people's office's. Coming unannounced walking around the desk, asking you a question while looking at your computer screen. I would look up at her, and she would see me looking at her looking at my screen, and she would start stammering. I really wanted to have just something awful on the screen to shock her, but I liked having a job.

I think most people will settle down once they see you will be the same old Moot, and the micro-managing malicious maggot, like my old boss. If do turn into that, promptly kick yourself in the balls.

[yeahwho]

Everything is monitored nowadays it seems.

Do you have to watch this monitoring? Is it part of your job description.

They've been watching on the peripheral of our work sites for years now. I recently have gone back to not giving a shit if they watch me or not.

There are multiple "no no's" we have for getting written up or fired and by law the video monitoring is not allowed as evidence.

I have had full access to the monitoring 24/7, since 2002. I've only went on the site once to check my password and make sure I knew how to bring everything up, that was 10 years ago. It's never been in my job description to sit around and watch people work so I don't.

I don't give a shit I guess. I would make a horrible casino security nerd.

A couple of times people have tried to use what they've taped to get employees in trouble and both times it ended up bad and one of the guys is being personally sued for invasion of privacy.

I stay far away from logging onto that Pandora's Box of litigation.

[MC Moot]

Lots of questions, there, I can only answer a few. If where I worked was dangerous, had expensive stuff, in need of high security, then I would not mind. If it was just an office job, I would mind..

In many way's it's all of those things and I have no problem with surveillance in those areas...but as for the back end of the organization,in secured offices,where clients are not being seen nor allowed I don't dig it,I think it creates ill will between the proletariat and the manager...this is the first non-union environment I have ever worked in...back in the day this kind of thing might of caused a wild cat...

In my old company, this one part-owner was always snooping around people's office's. Coming unannounced walking around the desk, asking you a question while looking at your computer screen. I would look up at her, and she would see me looking at her looking at my screen, and she would start stammering..

Unbearable and so uncool...I've come across the type...

If do turn into that, promptly kick yourself in the balls.

I have these little spanish legs so that may be tough...should the need arise,I'll have to ask cmute to do it for me...

[MC Moot]

Everything is monitored nowadays it seems.

Do you have to watch this monitoring? Is it part of your job description..

No...what's funny is that management proposed as if I had won a special privelege...almost like I should feel rewarded..where as I could give a flying fuck...the problem I see presenting itself is with the potential for overzealous program managers trying use it as tool to observe and create "efficiency’s" sitting on their ass via a lens...

It's never been in my job description to sit around and watch people work so I don't.

I don't give a shit I guess. I would make a horrible casino security nerd.


Ditto...(y)

[mikizee]

My job involves being out and about all day and visiting clients and doing repair jobs, and we use iphones for our call management system.

Got an email from the technology dept, saying they were wanting to test out the new phone tracking system, who would like to volunteer and be a beta tester for the system?

NO ONE volunteered. Who would? They have rocks in their head. Our call management system already shows where we are at any given time. Fortunately at the moment our work vehicles aren't GPS tracked, but I can see that happening sometime down the track as well. Given we are allowed to use the work vehicles for private use outside of work hours, I can see people opposing it (including me.)