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School custodian refuses to download phone app that monitors location, says it got her fired

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tattleware-privacy-employment-1.5978337 last October, after being on the job for about six weeks, her boss at the cleaning company sent out a companywide message — telling employees to download an app on their personal phones that would check their location and ensure they were working their scheduled hours. Dionne found the request offensive and refused. “I was at the school working so that I could provide for my son,” she told Go Public. “We're not thieves. We don't need an ankle monitor.” Less than two months later, the single mom was fired — her refusal to download the app was mentioned in her letter of termination. —————————– She should have learned to code, captured the data being sent by the app, then fake that data with her own app, and then quite quit until they get complaints that the bathrooms aren't clean. She can point to the app data and say,…


https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tattleware-privacy-employment-1.5978337

last October, after being on the job for about six weeks, her boss at the cleaning company sent out a companywide message — telling employees to download an app on their personal phones that would check their location and ensure they were working their scheduled hours.

Dionne found the request offensive and refused.

“I was at the school working so that I could provide for my son,” she told Go Public. “We're not thieves. We don't need an ankle monitor.”

Less than two months later, the single mom was fired — her refusal to download the app was mentioned in her letter of termination.

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She should have learned to code, captured the data being sent by the app, then fake that data with her own app, and then quite quit until they get complaints that the bathrooms aren't clean. She can point to the app data and say, I was working unpaid overtime!

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