Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day | Ars Technica

rysiek rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Tue May 19 02:38:29 PDT 2015


Dnia niedziela, 17 maja 2015 22:24:24 Tomasz Rola pisze:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:48:42PM +0200, rysiek wrote:
> > Dnia wtorek, 12 maja 2015 11:32:34 Lodewijk andré de la porte pisze:
> > > Why not have a work phone?
> > 
> > Doesn't solve the problem -- then she would get fired for turning it off
> > or
> > not having it on her at all times...
> 
> Could they find out without stalking that she left work phone at home
> and went away? Was she supposed to be available 24/7? If not, is it
> legal to spy on worker after work hours and out of workplace (sure,
> some agencies may have it in the job contract, explicit or not, but
> other employers?).

Depends on the contract, I guess. :)

> Oh, btw. Can she be punished if she forgot to charge her phone (say,
> can she be punished for being tired after work hours)? Can she be
> punished if after work she fell asleep in bath / made love / was
> learning Japanese / playing drums and didn't hear the ring (in case
> they wanted to check if she's with her phone)?

Yeah, these are the kinds of absurdities we land in with such fucked up 
policies.

> Sure, it may look strange if one day she plays drums, another day
> makes love and yet another saws trees to build a DIY coffee table. But
> so what?

It doesn't look strange, it shouldn't "look" in any particular way. As in, 
that's nobody's business.

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