Surveillance without cause is a step towards 1984. Oh, and it's bad for morale.

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Its for their own protection. If you aren't doing anything wrong whats the issue? What if they got robbed? It'd be nice to have video of it.

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??? I believe there were concerns of other employees potentially stealing as well. Why not have a security system just like convenience stores, department stores, dollar stores, banks and ......???

I must be really dense here Pie - Whats your point?

Nevermind, classic. I should remember never to poke the conservatives.

It's funny, because we're seen as far to the left of America, but I see nothing wrong with having cctv in a store where one of the employees is suspecting of stealing.

Surely it would be more of a travesty if all the employees came under suspicion because of the actions of one?

Good point SG - upon that we agree.

Pie - I'm a moderate, thanks and honestly I still have no idea what the hell you are talking about. Whats the downside to monitoring your own business?

Apparently, Pie == Pollyanna, since I would like to live in a world with as little surveillance as possible.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

Oh, come on Pie. Don't give up that quickly!

The default should be no surveillance cameras unless there is a reason. Duck's reason for a camera just quit. So a camera isn't needed.

Does she have a right to put a camera in her private business? Yes. Of course. But it will be bad for morale. A good boss takes things like morale into consideration when making decisions. Her remaining employees are honest. Why should she videotape them? Would you, classicman, like it if your boss pointed a video camera at your desk to videotape you while you work? I can't answer that for you, but I can say that I would hate it if my boss did that to me. I'd probably start looking for another job.

I don't think she should video tape her employees, but taping her cash register makes tons of sense.

Really though, noone ever watches the tapes anyway,unless there's a reason to. Like the situation she just went thru. The after-the-fact taping didn't help at all did it?

I would think that a business where virtually, if not all of the employees are women would feel safer knowing there is a camera there as a deterrent to crime.

I thought this thread was about embezzling money, not the rash of gang rapes in Australian beauty salons. But if this is a high crime area, then pointing a camera at the door is appropriate.

I think the surveillance system can have many beneficial outcomes and be used to protect both the employer AND the employees. BTW wasn't there a conversation with a nail woman who was implicating another employee at some point? maybe I misread that.

The camera was instituted to catch a thief in the act. To pretend that it is now for the other employees' safety is disingenuous, at best.

Fear of being caught on tape is rarely a deterrent to Australian Beauty Salon Gang Rapists. There've been studies.