yourhavingalarf:
Ask why cameras aren’t being installed on all the office bods.
Most screens can be specified with a built in camera so, why are you being singled out?
I’d be inclined to put my butty box in front of the ■■■■ thing as a first reaction, after that, I’d probably look for another job.
Because if an office bod falls asleep behind his desk, or uses his mobile to text, or watches a video on his laptop, the worst he’ll do is get behind with his work. Not stick 40 tons into the back of a queue of stationary traffic…
I said, ask his boss why aren’t other members of staff subject to the same treatment. I’d just like to know from management the reasons why drivers are singled out to have cameras pointed at them when other employees don’t?
Pointing a camera in my face won’t stop me from driving into stationary traffic. Not sure the boss would want the evidence if that were the case anyway.
xichrisxi:
I don’t understand this,so a driver has an accident and liability is up in the air…so why would the drivers OWN insurance company view the footage and then decide yes the driver was at fault if it means that said company then becomes liable for the cost of the accident and subsequent injury claims ect,we were always told never to admit liability if involved in an accident so why now do the insurance company “insist” on driver facing cameras,imo it’s bullcrapshit.
Because it might equally exonorate a driver of any blame.
I wouldn’t be having it though, seems way too intrusive.
OVLOV JAY:
Walk out, take them to tribunal for constructive dismissal. Loads of ours told the owner we’d do it, he decided against them
Insurance company says “no problem Mr. Bloggs, we will double your premium instead”…
That’s between my boss and his broker, and not my problem. What is my problem, is audio and visual recording of my overnight rest, including sleeping and changing, and private conversations, sometimes including bank account details, credit cards details and passwords
Assert dominance, ■■■■■■■■■■ whilst maintaining eye contact with the camera, they won’t review your footage too often after that, either that or you’ll get some interesting offers and invites from some of the more effeminate office staff, win win!
It seems absurd that firms now consider it easier to install driver-facing cameras - rather than just accept that insurance companies making employing a “9 points OK” driver prohibitively expensive otherwise.
I bet the Unions won’t be accepting this in any shape or form - putting them in the ascendant for once.
Reef:
Assert dominance, ■■■■■■■■■■ whilst maintaining eye contact with the camera, they won’t review your footage too often after that, either that or you’ll get some interesting offers and invites from some of the more effeminate office staff, win win!
I know you said that in jest, but I genuinely think you are on to something there. If you flung it around for a couple of minutes on your break, while singing along to the radio, and occasionally sniffing your boot, you would find your footage at the bottom of the “review” pile!
OVLOV JAY:
Walk out, take them to tribunal for constructive dismissal. Loads of ours told the owner we’d do it, he decided against them
Insurance company says “no problem Mr. Bloggs, we will double your premium instead”…
That’s between my boss and his broker, and not my problem. What is my problem, is audio and visual recording of my overnight rest, including sleeping and changing, and private conversations, sometimes including bank account details, credit cards details and passwords
They won’t be recording when your at rest. Cover it over at night, they can’t say anything about that.
Thing you should remember is that the only time anyone will see the video is if you have an accident. No one is going to sit on front of a screen watching you go about your working day
But you are still under constant surveillance, and if I wanted to be under constant surveillance then I would go and live in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
switchlogic:
Thing you should remember is that the only time anyone will see the video is if you have an accident. No one is going to sit on front of a screen watching you go about your working day
F-reds:
I genuinely think you are on to something there. If you flung it around for a couple of minutes on your break, while singing along to the radio, and occasionally sniffing your boot, you would find your footage at the bottom of the “review” pile!
Or the footage will be on constant loop on the canteen tv
switchlogic:
Thing you should remember is that the only time anyone will see the video is if you have an accident. No one is going to sit on front of a screen watching you go about your working day
If you take any notice of the TVs listings you will see that up to 8 thousand people tune into Big Brother through the night just to watch narcissists sleep! Strange creatures humans are Luke.
Harry Monk:
But you are still under constant surveillance, and if I wanted to be under constant surveillance then I would go and live in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
Judging by your avatar you would have been a typical relatively harmless patriotic Russian rather than an enemy of the state.
switchlogic:
Thing you should remember is that the only time anyone will see the video is if you have an accident. No one is going to sit on front of a screen watching you go about your working day
In an ideal world yes, but the cynic in me says a more unscrupulous firm would use it to build a dismissal case against an awkward driver
