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> I can't hardly imagine that most people posting here would ever consider a job where literally every word or sound that came out of their mouth during their e
by braythwayt 11y ago
> I can't hardly imagine that most people posting here would ever consider a job where literally every word or sound that came out of their mouth during their entire working life was recorded.
The working life for most hackers is rather privileged, so perhaps most people reading this would not care for such working conditions.
However, more and more "blue-collar" jobs are conducted under similar conditions. 100% surveillance on video. Audio recording. Recording all the calls you take or make in a call centre. Recording when you take bathroom breaks and when you are at your station.
Nanny-cams for cleaners, health-care providers and (well of course) child care providers in private homes. It goes on and on, but if you step outside of our cozy little tech community, you find that people are treated just like any other cog in a machine, which means they are instrumented and monitored at all times.
- edc117 11y agoIf I log into client infrastructure at my job (large corp), my activities are monitored. Audits are always kept of mission-critical data, and access to it closely watched. I wouldn't be surprised if my work machine contained software to monitor various aspects of my work. Frankly, I wouldn't want it any other way - as developers, we can do a lot of very expensive damage, and those logs are a way of proving you conducted yourself like a professional at all times. Maybe this isn't common in SV, but if you work for a large organization who needs to be able to answer a client when they ask 'what happened at x on y', you better believe things are in place to make it happen. I don't believe it's unreasonable to expect the same from police.