Posted on 05/13/2015 2:04:06 AM PDT by 9thLife
A California woman claims she was fired after disabling an app with a GPS function that was required to run on her company iPhone and tracked her 24 hours a day.
Myrna Arias was working for money transfer service company, Intermex, last year when she claims her boss, John Stubits, 'bragged that he knew how fast she was driving' at certain times after she had installed the app, Xora, according to the lawsuit.
She then objected to being monitored during non-work hours claiming it was an invasion of her privacy and 'likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet'.
Arias uninstalled the app from her company issued phone in April 2014 before she was fired from her $7,250 a month job as a sales executive on May 5, 2014.
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This is just one app, and one that we know about.
Company issued cell phone? Leave it at home after work and use your own,
If she's complaining about her company monitoring her when she's off-duty, then turn the blasted phone off or leave it at home when off-duty. Or if the company requires her to have her phone with her at all times, spend a couple of bucks and use this:
The Mark of the Beast is not far in the future. It is very, very close.
Turning smart phones off does nothing to turn these apps off Smart phones are traceable on or off. and one cannot take out the battery. Who said we are not becoming watched slaves?
Yes, all of this technology, while cool in many regards, will be manipulated by evil men, and indeed, the Lawless One.
If it was a work phone...leave it at work at the end of the day....problem solved!
Having a company phone with you at all times and blocking the signal is useless to a boss trying to call you. What’s the point?
Good Ole Faraday bag....
Not everyone works 9-5. Many salaried employees are on call 24-7
They aren’t traceable in a foil-lined anti-RF bag. “Oh, I’m sorry, I must have been in a place with bad cell coverage.”
You’re right, and that’s a shame; workers have lost a lot of ground in the past decades in terms of work/life balances. I hate my job, but realize it is one of the few 40 hour per week jobs left; we are on call IF we have a company-issued phone, so I don’t use one - any attempt to force one on me would have to be accompanied by a large pay increase. I no longer work beyond my scheduled hours, and will have to react only if I’m forced to train someone in the more sensitive areas of my work. My company has no reason to expect me to respond outside of those hours unless it is part of the disaster recovery plan (as happened after Hurricane Sandy a few years ago); I increased my hourly wages significantly by ending the 6-6 schedule I worked years ago (when resources - money - were sent to female office toys of men in high positions instead of real workers).
then Faraday bag that device.....and then claim that the wifi coverage stinks...
Maybe iPhones are continuously on, but the anti-theft tracker application (Lookout) I have on my Android does not have the ability to track the location when the phone is off (and yes, I've tested it a few times -- it reports the location when the phone was turned off).
"Gee, sorry, I missed your phone call / Gee, sorry, I missed your email. Gee, sorry, I must have been in a spot with a really bad cell."
Personally, I refuse to deal with trivial garbage outside of business hours.
What is the name of that item?
Where can freepers buy that item?
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