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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If it is possible (it may be, I don’t know. My cell phone is an antique) set the work cell phone to forward to the private cell phone and then leave the work phone at home. They can still reach you but can no longer track you.
Many companies have service plans that do not allow forwarding.
Faraday bag - just google it to find lots of sellers
I was thinking the exact same thing, leave the company phone at home and use call forwarding to your own cell phone. How can she have a case I wonder? She agrees to work for them,they give a phone and she alters it and gets terminated claiming privacy violation? Idiotic ...for $87,000 a year gross I would have dealt with it and piled up the ducket’s until I could leave for greener pastures ...foolish female crying to the courts over something she could configured to her advantage instead of lining the pocket of a GD lawyer.
Yep.. the same companies who would fire you for removing their means of tracking you...
click on the picture and it will take you to Amazon.
Some people in companies become obsessed with the technology and “keeping tabs” on employees. If one is a good manager one should be measuring the end results and not involved in the minutia of tracking an employee on their day off. However, some employers begin to resemble a jealous husband; obsessed with knowing every detail, attempting to “control’ the person, and losing track of the big picture.
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You miss the point.
She was REQUIRED to be reachable at all times.
It is UNREASONABLE to be TRACKED at all times.
With that app installed you can not be reachable and untracked.
You can record mileage without tracking.
It could be Mark of the Beast is already here. Perhaps its not a physical sign but the public acceptance (forehead)or practice (Hand) of a known sin. Example: it is to where if you do not publicly support the forced acceptance of Sodomy one can no longer sell bread (cakes)or or work (Pizza, photography, flowers, etc.)
Did not some religious scholars identify 666 different sins at one time....
“The Mark of the Beast is not far in the future. It is very, very close.”
Sure seems like it. Once they go to digital “cash”, that’s the ball game.
Her solution should have been to leave her company phone at home, and turned off.
Some creepy guy at work is following her unrelated to business. She was right to uninstall it.
I suspect she was required to carry the phone at all times. It is a good lawsuit.
According to the article, she was required to carry that phone at all times whether she was on work hours or off work hours. They tracked her constantly.
Yeah...I’m just loving the 4.20 A.M. calls my husband has been getting lately..Aarrgghhh
Jake from State Farm?
Ha...he doesn’t answer...guys working on project don’t look at area codes.
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