School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by neaden on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:23AM (#26793483)

This might be legal, but it's still bad management. If you don't trust your employees and you don't think you can evaluate the results of their work, in this case if things are clean, that's on you as a manager to figure out. Tying it in to the process like this and you end up getting false flags when they spend a long time cleaning a mess, or reward them for not cleaning sufficiently to hit their movement metrics.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by michaelt on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:59AM (#26794195)

A small minority of work can't easily be directly evaluated.

If I hire a security patrol company, and they contract to provide a patrol that will visit twice a night and walk around the building, nonperformance would be almost undetectable.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:25PM (#26795803)

Punch clocks were standard 100 years ago. The nightguard was supposed to press the button on clocks dotted around the building when he passed them. No app on the personal phone required.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by ipaddr on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:07PM (#26795495)

If a robbery or damaged occured you would know. If you audited the cameras. If you had a second employee.

Tracking location by the second isn't necessary and can be defeated with a rc car and a piece of tape by a 6 year old or robot (the tommy robot from the 80s would be perfect) or drone if you want to stay upto date.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by neaden on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:13PM (#26794505)

There may be cases sure, but this isn't one of them.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by yencabulator on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:52AM (#26808778)

Security patrols have little RFID style markers around the building they scan to prove when they were there. That's standard practice at least in Europe.

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