WORKER PRAISES INVASIVE EMPLOYEE MONITORING: PHOTOS EVERY 10 MINUTES 

EDIT: (As expected it looks like they're filtering comments and stuff. Classic because he says 'feel free to call me out'. Then doesn't allow it.) I know, I know, it's absolutely insane that it's not satire or parody. If you enjoyed the video (even though the content is angering), maybe leave a like! Let's get this video into the algo. Maybe share it with someone else who needs their Monday brightened. I worked through the weekend to make this video happen, and it was a pleasure to systematically destroy this kid's entire argument. Sources below: Linkedin www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7032105884600201216/ (somehow no one picked up on this post or called them out, even though they have 5.4mil followers? ) Here's the youtube version of the same: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dIL8uqTCF5U.html (still too many likes on it imo) The Court Case(since there is an incomplete and misrepresented account of what actually happened): decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/523029/index.do Department of Labor Salary Definition: www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17g-overtime-salary) their website (Talking about nothing to hide, nothing to fear): www.crossover.com/perspective/productivity-monitoring

This is one of those dudes who will get laid off and post a lengthy post on LinkedIn thanking them for having an opportunity to work there and thankful for being let go.

This is either a paid actor or a manager reading a script. This is exactly, word for word, what a manager would say with all the smugness.

As a tech professional with 23 years experience and someone who has worked 100% remote for like 4 of those years. If a company wanted to monitor me I would quit immediately. Companies who want to own me do not deserve my labor.

"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" The slogan of authoritarianism

I did a job interview the other day for an in office sales position, the manager stated that no cell phones are allowed anywhere in the office area and must be kept inside a locker. She said that we can give our family a 1-800 number to be routed to the office is there is an emergency. I decided it was time for me to work for myself, some employers think they’re hiring children. EDIT- the job was selling a fundraising service to schools.

This guy is like post-surgery narcotics have a voice. “You’re not in pain. Everything is okay!” - BUT YOU POKED HOLES IN MY BODY 😡

That level of micromanaging really needs to be a felony

It’s ironic he says some people want to play PS5 at home instead of working yet there are companies out there that have gaming consoles in their Rec rooms there.

“I’m ok with someone invading my personal space so I can simp for a company and I’m fine with that. I also enjoy sharing my spouse with other dudes, I love it”

By this logic, the boss should walk around the office every ten minutes taking a picture of what people are doing. Justify that managers pay please.

This is the "Govern me harder, Daddy" type who just can't get by without a boot pressed firmly on his neck.

This guy can’t be real. He must be AI generated from a company that want their workers back in the office from some middle manager to justify his existence.

Am I the only one who would go through 48 wardrobe changes during an 8 hour shift just to make the monitor question their sanity?

holy shit how does someone make a video like that without it being complete satire. The copium is strong with this one.

BLINK THREE TIMES IF YOU ARE HELD HOSTAGE

"A lot of my friends think I'm crazy for being okay with my company taking a photo of me every ten minutes, but when you think about it, the pros outweigh the cons, because you'd be okay with it too if they paid you as much as they're paying me to say that."

Andrew was probably the one kid who reminded the teacher about the homework assignment (which caused him to get beaten up) and his favorite Recess character was Randall.

So if I come to the office I can slack off or is this needed only for remote work? Because I have some hard truths for middle managers everywhere: people can slack off like pros in the office too

This guy has major "we need an HOA to measure everyone's grass" vibes

I have such a phobia of being watched because my entire life my parents had monitoring tech on all my electronics and never told me until they were drunk one day when I was in my 20s. Knowing my parents read every Google question every private conversation I ever had. I worry my husband monitors my stuff too. Knowing the government, my job. Even "god" claims to know all and see all. Makes me want to walk in front of a bus. Why does it matter I hit my productivity quota? I just want privacy. I swear these employers paid less attention when were in our cubicles.

I wager his wife's boyfriend is proud he just has a job.

If this happens to you, just pretend you are having technical issues here and there and all the while look for a new job.

Joshua , I am now an employer but have also be an employee in my time.. and I absolutely love your content and research … this has got to be your best video yet … I thoroughly enjoy your content… you are getting better and better . 👍🏼

“Company takes pictures of you every 10 minutes.” What does a company do with all those pictures?

I remember when I worked in corporate America. I was able to come in late, so I could work the evenings just to get things done. Otherwise I was constantly being interrupted for all sorts of non work related things, as well as work place drama. The job could have easily been done in about 20-25 hours a week. These bosses know very well no one is able or needs to work 40 hours a week for most jobs. It is an egotistical power trip.

I have worked at this company and trust me it's much worse. The employee tracking isn't even the main problem. I used python to trick the software into thinking I was working using random key presses and mouse clicks and a virtual camera that gets its feed from a pre-recorded video. The main problem is that they have a ranking system where u get points for fixing a bug or building a feature. Each work item has a time limit and if you don't complete it before the time limit you get 0 points. Every month those at the bottom of the list are fired. They always keep firing and hiring new people. Now the work is such that you will have to work at least 60 hours a week in order to remain at a safe spot in the rank list. Also, most of your colleagues including your manager are not very supportive or communicative. They see you as competition and want you to fail. Many times i wasn't able to complete the task assigned to me within the time limit because one of my peers who did the rca for the bug took too long to respond to my question. It is good money for a 3rd world country but you will have to give up all your social and family life. Most of the people who work there are in their late 30s or early 40s and all look the same: grey haired and fat. They are dead inside and their lives are tied to their chairs. Sometimes I had to work on Saturdays and Sundays to remain at a safe spot in the ranks. Moreover this guy in the video is some sort of PR guy for the company. It's his job to praise them.

I refuse to believe he is an actual employee. He is too smug and self righteous to be an actual staff. He acts like the ceo vilian pretending to be an employee

If a company distrusts employees that much, I'd get a job some place else. My work is either getting done, or it is not.

Productivity didn’t matter where I worked, it was all about who liked who. I used to put black tape over the laptop camera and microphone. If there was a complaint, putting up a picture in front of camera would be next. Also created a program to put in key strokes because they tracked number of keystrokes. If that wasn’t working, I was going to make a mechanical device to type in keystrokes. Luckily made it to retirement and don’t need to put up with this BS anymore.

"Look Boss! I am typing so fast! I am the best employee ever!" - "That is just nonsense, those are just random characters like you banged your head on the keyboard." "I know but the monitoring program scores me 99/100. The company is making all the monies!" Meanwhile, the other programmer writes 10 lines of code because of his experience and solves the problem. They are scored 10/100, put on a performance correction plan and reviewed for wage theft.

Fun fact: I work remotely and I come to the office maybe once a week and you know what? I get more work done at home than at the office.

Andrew is also willing to wear a shock collar for the right price

imagine bragging about your boss installing spyware

The one thing I couldn't say on Linkedin that I can hopefully still say here (Jesus, they're getting good at tracking everyone's online connections and accounts) is that the mannerisms in that video (tone, cadence, their movements, everything) would get the shit kicked out of them in a public setting. I can't remember the last time someone's.. being, made me want to punch them.

Ya see in past times these are the people that would report their neighbors to the secret police.

"Everybody has a price" Sorry no, no price will make me sell out or do immoral actions. It's called having morals and a backbone.

I've applied to a bunch of jobs at this company but I never completed the different rounds of interviews because I was busy with other things in life so I'm glad I never ended up working for them

I wonder is this even a real employee?

I had a remote job years before covid. They were US based and paid in US dollars while I was living in Mexico. So it was 3 times more than a similar job Here in terms of hourly rate. I only lasted 3 months. Every few days I would get s notification with s warning that I didn’t had ‘enough keystrokes’ or that i was surfing the web particularly RU-vid (looking for solutions) that I was not in my desk or very tiny things like that. At some point I was even thinking to bring a pee jar to the desk. I had to quit it was too much.

Guilty until proven innocent is exactly the sort of people you need to avoid. They will never stop their morale busy bodied existence. They know more than you, they are better people than you, and they expect you should thank them for their generosity.

That's what ticket systems are for, seriously, there's no need to invade a person's privacy, imagine if your boss snooped every 10 minutes to a physical cubicle, it would feel awkward rather quickly.

Omg employers like them are just utterly disgusting

The German quote is 'Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat auch nichts zu befürchten' (who has nothing to hide, has also nothing to fear) and has been often used during the last 10-15 years in Germany when governmental surveillance

As someone studying for CISSP, excessive monitoring of employees is cringe. Imagine a hacker compromising that servics and taking pictures of your kids when they get home...

Either Andrew is an actor, or he's the most miserable unhappiest employee in corporate history.

I work for Warner Media and am not monitored at all. This dude has chomped the boot so far that he’s choking on the laces.

This guy is the kind of person who wouldn’t mind telling the government that he wouldn’t mind mass surveillance because he has “nothing to hide”. 😡

I’m a minute in and Andrew sounds like he’s making a sarcastic satire video, incredible that he’s serious.

YOU NEED TO TAKE A DUMP... TIME-THEFT, BANNEM! Reminds me of elemetary school when teachers wouldn't let kids go to the bathroom and they would wet themselves holding it in.

You should do a video on the Amazon return to office announcement and the silly reasons why their CEO is calling them all back. It's laughable!

An alternative perspective is that my employer doesn't even pay me an amount commensurate with the revenue generated by my work, so they're already stealing from me. As such, I'll just go ahead and make the most of being a salary employee. Think it's about time for my mid-morning nap...

Simping in any aspect of life almost always gets you no where except despair.

I will NEVER let a company monitor my personal life. As it is, I flip the cameras in my workplaces the middle finger, like Heisenberg in the lab.

Who the fuck is this video even for? Who is watching this and saying, "You know what, sign me up for this spyware!"

Hi, everyone. I am Andrew's boss at Arby's. Andrew, we've had this talk about goofing off on company time and how you're not salting the fries properly. Get back to work, please. I only got 50 pictures of you since this morning instead of 900. You are reminded that you must report and comply with monitoring and surveillance procedures as discussed verbally after we hired you.

I love how he talks about how people can resist to not do work at work, but can't resist it at home (worded it backwards to make it sound better). I know at my job I had a co-worker that would watch Lord of the Rings instead of doing work. He did it so much that our mutual boss thought it was funny and allowed it because he trusted him to do his job. He did do his job and it goes back to what you were saying about people you can trust. That was when we were in the office but now most of us are remote workers. I work at my desk which has my Nintendo Switch OLED on it and guess what, I never have a want to play it unless it is during my actual free time. I'm glad you are destroying this person that doesn't understand work ethic and remind people that trust is how you keep things healthy at work. Also, I hate how he says BRAND NEW PS5 WHICH JUST GOT DELIVERED or whatever he says. It's like he thinks all workers have the mind of a 8 year old, but you never know maybe bro man does, 🤣🤣.

Wdym you dont want us to put a telescreen into every room of your house? Got something to hide?

I would lose my mind if my boss wanted to take photos of me for every ten minutes.

I'm a software dev from Romania. Here, the cost of living is ... like nothing. I used to make like €24k a year (after taxes). I'm guessing that sounds like nothing. But, even then. I rented an apartment on main street. Ate almost exclusively at fancy restaurants, worked from home. Had my own hours as an employee. Yeah, I owned a shit car, but that's the only thing I can even name that bothered me. Crossover hires in my area. They pay ~120k a year. I can live on 12k without cutting back. Let's say 20k and include unforeseeable expenses. That's 100k a year into an investment portfolio. That's not bad. I would have simped too. Later I learned why they call Romania a tax haven. I make like 80k a year (after taxes) with one of the chillest jobs ever. Still make my own hours. Company takes us on expensive team buildings all over Europe twice a year. Now, I'm not so eager to make that extra 40k by being a simp. Plus the 120k is a lie. You only get that money if they never catch you leaving your chair, or if you work extra for every time they do catch you. Yeah. Pass.

"Would I consent to being pegged by my employer every 10 minutes? Well it depends on the incentive."

Costco Hired a Private investigator to stalk me and my Brother, I was Also told to sign a paper saying they can check me or my car and also my social media. My Brother was hit by a forklift and they were scared of getting sued, Mysteriously the Camera footage disappeared

Bruh, I was jobless a few months ago and tried to interview with them. They gave me an Id and password and asked me to do their online test which was a form of IQ tests ( nothing coding related ) and they turned me down it was for 60k fully remote role. So glad it didnt work out , from now on will have them in my black list.

Most jobs can be done in an hour two. The rest of that time is just to own you and hold over your head.

If someone sent that vid to me and said it was a parody, I'd 100% believe them

Honestly the cooperate simp that is arguing for invasive monitoring is so ass kissingly nice, that I seriously thought that he was being sarcastic at first. I still kind of wonder if is.😅

So all exec meetings and Financials are going to be open to the entire company right? I mean as an employee I should know if the company will pay me appropriately, measure my productivity appropriately and openly, and not lay me off unexpectedly. I mean it goes both directions right?if they don't want to trust, and want to verify. So why should I have to trust without verifying?

It’s funny how he says this got a ton of media coverage. I am just hearing about this on this channel, so it didn’t make the nightly news in the U.S. at least. If you have a bunch of untrustworthy employees that says more about the hiring practices of the company than it does about the actual employees in my mind. It means you do not know how to hire appropriately. Also: his voice, his facial expressions and his t-shirt all annoy me…

This all works fine and dandy till a company that is spying on their employees winds up hiring someone who doesn't give a damn about what they look like going to work. I'd love to see a company like this one try and explain having nude pics cause an employee got up and said screw clothes. But still was doing an exceptional job 🤣

This guy is one of the reasons we have labor unions. This guy does not have boundries.

"You shouldn't care about your privacy if you have nothing to hide," has got to be the excuse for any kind of surveillance that I hate the most.

"You're supposed to lick the boot, not put the whole thing in your mouth" LOL

The boss can just send a message in teams and see if you respond. If you are doing the work what diff does it matter. I won't allow cameras watching me work.

Get ready to see all his skits turned into "real" advertisement on Linkedin

The real crime is that she was only making 55k/ year in BC as an accountant

Could it be possible that this Andrew is actually an Android.

I refuse to work for companies that require me to be "Monitored" via software/apps. Measure my performance (Assuming they understand what I do for the company).

Think video monitoring and pics is the equivalent of dangerous corporate spyware. Especially for women who work from home as some people already do creepy things with less access to their employees. I was harassed in person, so I prefer no to be at home too 😅

The fact that this man ended up on a video whose title starts with 'COMPANY SIMP' shows there is still some justice in the world

This guy's attitude is basically you cannot be trusted by your employer, but you must trust your employer. He's so full of smug, inherent contradictions that it really does sound and look like a parody. The data visibility thing at 14:02 is pretty wack: "It's OK that I'm photo-monitored every 10 minutes, because I have access to all those photos and can delete the ones I don't like!" Oh great, spend an extra 20 minutes each day reviewing and deleting photos that shouldn't be taken in the first place. Do we charge that time to overhead? And will the company then fire us for 'time theft' for reporting those hours?

Goes to show, truth is stranger than fiction

The court case related to outright fraud regarding billable hours. If your hours are billable, your hours and output are tied together. They are one and the same essentially, which is not true for most salaried employees. Forget about jurisdiction, he is trying to extend the impact of a ruling outside of its actual context.

At least his wife`s boyfriend was nice enough to help edit his video.

In other words, "I'm totally ok with being monitored because I'm afraid of being sued". So, they work under constant fear. And yet they're completely blind to that fact. People like this must watch Black Mirror but actually _enjoy_ the horrific reality portrayed.

Best place I worked had a policy (for devs) that you'd need to log 6 hours of work out of the 8 you were hired. The idea was "you can't be productive 100% of the time, you'll have to look stuff up, have a coffee, drink some water, ask a question to a colleague, talk to your boss, etc" so you'd hve to log 6 hours of actual work and the other 2 was for non-task related things

ceo: Bring out the gimp! hr: Think the gimp's sleepin'. ceo: Well I guess you just have to wake'im up now, won't you (slaps hr)! hr: (Brings Andrew out of its cage.)

The issue with the "if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear," is that nobody is perfect and employers aren't acknowledging how middle management works. If your boss decides they don't like you, they tend to start building a case against you. Any photo or video can be taken out of context. You standing up to stretch your legs or eating a snack can be used against you as case for termination or worse. Maybe you're a person who talks to yourself when you're alone. All those moments on camera can be taken out of context. It's not that an employee might have something to hide, it's that someone who is looking for an issue can typically find something to support their claims if given enough time. If you can't trust someone, fire them. If they aren't productive enough, fire them. If they are doing well stop looking for problems where they don't exist.

Work from home really broke employers brains. The fact of the matter is 98% of jobs don't have 8 hours worth of shit for you to do literally every shift. Construction workers have project deadlines that are a month out from when they actually expect to finish. Office workers don't get 100,000 words worth of memos to read. Fast food workers don't have an endless stream of customers. Retail workers can only rearrange a stock room so many times. You're paying people because you forced them to have to be attentive to your shit, not because they necessarily did anything. If the latter were true, why pay security guards on nights when nothing happens?

That employee is soul destroying.

I don’t know how this would work. But it sounds to me like Amazon flex, where the company is paying you to use your own car to make deliveries. Saving the company tons of money in vehicles, insurance, gas, etc. And paying the employees a shitty wage. Here, the company is appropriating your own private space, for a certain amount of time that you will work for them. Essentially sounds like they’re saving money in office space, electricity, water, etc. So would only be fair if we charged them rent for that timeframe of work while surveilled.

It's funny as here in Quebec, the remote work law states that if your employer monitor your laptop then you are allowed to charge overtime as you have a way to prove it. If your company does not monitor you (usually salary employees) then you cannot charge overtime as there is no way to prove it. Therefore, no corps here are monitoring employees as it is very beneficial for them. Whatever you work 32 hours or 60 hours a week, they still pay you the same.

"let me know in the comments" company is deleting comments

I was contacted by a company making monitoring software, and it turned out they were using it themselves. So basically as a developer you'd work on your own cuffs.

If you used the “frog in the boiling water” apologue, he would be the frog who’s overcooked, cut and served on the main dish and still thanks the chef for the opportunity.

It really shows how horrible that employer is. In my job, it's already granted that in the office you won't be as productive as you would be at home but during one on one meeting with manager he told me that he doesn't care whether I work from home or in the office, I have to do my job and do it well. I got a raise that i didn't expect and freedom in this job. Weirdly i have no issues working overtime after experiencing this

Everyone has a different way of working. My philosophy is if the work gets done and you meet your deadline, then I don’t care how you achieved it as long as it is quality work. No need to micromanage people from home or in the office. That only creates additional stress. That’s why we have metrics to asses a persons job performance…

Thanks for making this video- dude must be a blast to watch at company parties

Now if they'd only introduce that level of monitoring in our prison systems. Do ya see what I did there?

I'm 37 and currently have 10+ years working for a very large household name company. There are definitely people who abuse telework, and it's really frustrating. On the same point, however, some people I know do an excellent job while teleworking. I'd say it boils down to a case by case basis. If you're not getting your shit done, then shitcan them. There is no need for this overarching monitoring, IMO.

You want quality output on time and under budget, with email exchanges after working hours and an on-call support? Then you're not going to lock me to a desk for 8 hours a day, and you certainly won't be doing it with spyware.