Tech Fired for Refusing to Be Tracked 24/7

[Barry-xlovecam]

Employee Says She Was Fired for Refusing to Be Tracked 24/7

[B]ut what happens when someone else wants to monitor you? That's the question being asked in the wake of a recent lawsuit brought by an employee who claims she was terminated because she refused to use a mobile app that would allow her employer to track her whereabouts even when she was off the clock.

Earlier this month, law firm Alexander Krakow & Glick LLP filed a suit in California's Kern County Superior Court on behalf of plaintiff Myrna Arias, who is suing her former employer, electronic money transfer service Intermex, for $500,000 in damages. Arias alleges wrongful termination, retaliation, invasion of privacy and unfair business practices, among other complaints ...

OK, during work hours but 24/7?
I hope she wins. If you are not paid for the time it's not your employer's business to track your doings. That is just plain bad employee relations and abuse of employment contract.

[kane]

Not exactly the same thing, but years go I worked for Radio Shack. About 80% of the time I would get called in on at least one of my days off each week. One week I got back to back days off (pretty rare normally they were scattered) so I went out of town for a couple of days. When I got home there were a ton of messages from my manager pissed that he couldn't get a hold of me. I went in the next day and he told me that he should always be able to get in touch with me even on my days off and if I am going to go somewhere I should call and let him know where I am going to be in case he needs me.

[georgeyw]

A mate of mine is an air con tech and he is never at the office as he is servicing air con all over the place. Anyway his boss makes him check in when he gets to a job / leaves a job / stops for lunch / finishes lunch / the list goes on and on.

There is also a gps tracker in his work vehicle, so they check whether he is exactly where the gps shows too.

Not quite the same as 24/7 but not a chance you'd get me doing that. It has created an extremely negative work life for him and all the other employees and as you can imagine their staff turnover is going gangbusters...

[shoot twice]

Adapt or die???

Those that point fingers and scream "Luddite" better learn to like this sort of thing because it's the wave of the future.

[Captain Kawaii]

Originally Posted by kane

Not exactly the same thing, but years go I worked for Radio Shack. About 80% of the time I would get called in on at least one of my days off each week. One week I got back to back days off (pretty rare normally they were scattered) so I went out of town for a couple of days. When I got home there were a ton of messages from my manager pissed that he couldn't get a hold of me. I went in the next day and he told me that he should always be able to get in touch with me even on my days off and if I am going to go somewhere I should call and let him know where I am going to be in case he needs me.

And where is RS now?

[Barry-xlovecam]

It's the 24/7 thing. While you are on the employer's time clock that is one thing ...

[Manfap]

My wife got sacked from a job for not coming to a quickly arranged meeting on her day off. We were out of town.

She'd only worked there a month. On the 89th day(you have 3 months to file) after them sacking her, we filed a complaint and they had to pay her 3 months wages.

[AllAboutCams]

Last job i had i had to clock in and out with my finger print it did not go down well

[kane]

Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii

And where is RS now?

In all fairness this happened in like 1991 so they made it for a while. To be honest, my asshole manager aside, I saw a lot of shady things there. I was amazing they lasted as long as they did.

[MiamiBoyz]

Hey!

If the government can track you 24/7 then why the fuck should your other overlord aka your employer not have the same ability.

What the fuck you mean you want privacy...where the fuck you think you are - 1960?

Privacy is long dead - welcome to 1984 ummm I mean 2015 - now enjoy your shiny smartphone sucker!

[mstyanda]

Things like this are probably why most of us do what we do rather than work in the corporate world.

Before going in to the adult biz I was a corporate exec at a pretty big company and was in charge of over 7200 employees across 3 states of offices. That company had, and probably still has the mindset that if you are in any level of management you are supposed to be reachable 24/7. That is the price you pay for the promotion in to management. Now I don't know if they would go as far as to require a stupid tracking device but realistically if you have to be reachable 24/7 it isn't much different.

I always thought that was pretty retarded and it is exactly why I left the corporate world. However now as the person who owns the business I can assure you I get in a pretty pissy mood when something goes wrong and I need my manager and can't get in touch with her. So while retarded companies take things to the extreme I can sort of understand their mindset of wanting their management on point at any needed moment.

[MaDalton]

privacy laws over here would never allow these things