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The headline is a bit misleading - the main body of the article is how the remote workers are more acting as virtual over-the-shoulder supervisors of the 7-11 w
by toss1 5y ago
The headline is a bit misleading - the main body of the article is how the remote workers are more acting as virtual over-the-shoulder supervisors of the 7-11 workers, e.g., pestering them if they paid for that drink they took, etc.
Yelling at robbers (and capturing data) is a great idea. Constant monitoring is a burgeoning hellscape.
- bigbillheck 5y agoYelling at robbers is a terrible idea, silent alarms are silent for a reason.
- willcipriano 5y agoRegular alarms are loud for a reason.
- filesystem 5y agoRegular alarms are typically triggered at the point of entry / forced entry, to discourage the intruders from entering the building. Silent alarms are triggered during a hostage situation. e.g. when a cashier / bank teller / etc. is in danger because they are being threatened with a weapon. At this stage, it is not advisable to startle the robber because it may cause them to harm the hostage.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoIt depends on what your goal is. Do you want the robbers to flee, taking nothing with them and causing minimum damage? Or do you want the police to show up and incarcerate, possibly injure or kill them, and cause more property damage and possibly loss if the robbers get away before (if) the police arrive?
- falcolas 5y agoOr, the armed robbers panic, start shooting up the cameras and speakers, and maybe the cashier too, if they're particularly angry. Assuming an armed individual will act predictably or rationally in response to being yelled at seems specious.
- toss1 5y agoYes, there is always a tension between the home/store owners and the police. The home/store owners typically want a loud alarm to warn the intruder, deter them from further action, and convince them to flee. The police want a silent alarm to give them time to get on the scene and apprehend the intruders and thieves so they can get an arrest and conviction. It is a bit of a Commons Problem that benefits the criminals, where it is in the individual's interest to use a loud alarm that will warn them in time to flee, but it is in the common interest to use a silent alarm to allow police to catch the criminals sooner. Clearly, these store owners are on the individual side of the fence.
- jonplackett 5y agoWhat if they think the cashier triggered the warning?
- lotsofpulp 5y ago> Constant monitoring is a burgeoning hellscape. Based on my conversations with parents, they seem to like livestream video cameras at their kids’ daycare. So then I ask them if they would be okay with video cameras at their workplace (most are office/computer workers), and they claim they would be okay with that too.
- jdavis703 5y agoI’ve worked at places with security cameras. There’s nothing I’m doing in an open office that I wouldn’t want on camera.
- edgyquant 5y agoI worked in a couple of factories out of high school and they had cameras everywhere but the bathrooms. Most retail places also have cameras everywhere. Us white collar workers don’t realize just how spoiled we are with this stuff (then again there is less need for cameras on white collar workers, since most of the stuff you can steal is on the other side of a screen anyway.)