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Posted on 07/01/2005 2:03:11 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MESA, Ariz. - Nearly 100 employees of a trash collecting company in Phoenix have filed a lawsuit, alleging that people were videotaped while using the restroom.
Waste Management lawyer Michael Manning said there was videorecording equipment in the men's restroom of the company's building but it was to catch vandals and drug users at night.
He said nobody ever watched the recordings unless there were signs of vandalism or drug use in the restroom first, which there were none after the equipment was installed.
Manning said the lawsuit is an attempt by union organizers to malign the national trash collection company, which is based in Houston.
The suit, filed June 21 in Maricopa County Superior Court on behalf of 92 employees, claims that Waste Management in Phoenix secretly taped people "in the act of urinating or undressing inside an employees restroom."
It names eight supervisors and managers who the employees say knew about the recordings.
Being secretly taped is a big problem
Someone probably scribbled "Kerry Sux" on the wall.
Was this the case?
It would seem to be common knowledge since the vandalism or drug use stopped.
They still should have posted a sign stating surveillance was in use
Some of their collected garbage was disappearing, they had to do something.
We live in a surveillance society as it is. I can be watched anywhere if I am outside my house. I have to draw the line at being watched in the @#$$ bathroom. I'm sorry. I'll vandalize the god damned equipment. Nobody needs a video of me performing private bodily functions. Not unless I'm getting paid good money for it.
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The key word is secretly "claims that Waste Management in Phoenix secretly taped people "in the act of urinating or undressing inside an employees restroom."
Seems to me no posting warning the employees that one of their most private moments was being taped. No company should have the right to video tape a person in a state of undress or using the facilities.
Smoking in the boy's room!
I worked for a company from Hades a few years ago. I've described the place and the CEO, CFO on another thread entitled: "What was your worst/best job."
To continue: The whackjobs placed bugs in the offices so they could listen to conversations going on in the various rooms. The absolute best was the day the secretaries massacred the female CEO's outfit and ripped her appearance to shreds. We couldn't understand why she left and came back in a completely different outfit. Then, lots of things started making sense and one of the guys started looking and found one of the bugs.
Oh yeah. Brave New World and all the paranoia in it.
Well it is a "waste management" company.
BTTT
If someone wants to see my hair a$$ crap well I guess they deserve what they get..... It aint purty thats fer shure.
It'd give a whole new meaning to the phrase "streaming video." :)
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