On reflection, the camera’s being placed so as to watch the employee fails on practical grounds, too.
If they’re worried about the employee taking money out of the till, that’s going to show up when the register is balanced for the next shift. The employee would be responsible for any shortfall, anyway. And if they worried the employee is going to feed off the merchandise, evading the coverage of the camera would be a trivial matter.
Sounds like cameras are useless. It took me a long time to get used to them always watching me at the library at work, innocent as I was and never handling money anyway for many years. The public, though, were worth watching.
1) a misguided screwed up nineteen year old thought it would be funny to make a water puddle form on the men’s room floor. He stood on a counter and pulled on a pipe from above the acoustic ceiling tiles——
and set off a waterfall that flooded the carpets and ruined the lower shelf of books for about 500 feet. Electrical damage, too. Cost tens of thousands in loss. Caught on video going in and running out soaking wet. He confessed.
2) racist anti black graffiti on college campus building walls outside. Demonstrations blocked traffic and shut down classes off an on for weeks. A few confrontations against white students going to class.
After thousands of hours of perusal of many cameras’ digital recordings police identified and then caught the man: a black man in his mid 30s, not a college student, who wanted to rile up battles against white students.