Can a manager at your job take phone pics of you w/o knowledge/consent & e-mail them?
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Kentucky
I was at my workplace doing my job routinely. I happened to look around and noticed a lower-level manager was behind me, pointing a smartphone directly at me. Smartphones are something I don't generally notice, because texting among management is fairly routine. Except the phone was pointed directly at me. So I asked "Are you filming me?" "No." So I forgot about it.
Later on, the general manager of the place pulled out his own smart phone and showed me a photo of me behind my back doing my job, which was the same incident I described above. He commented that I did acceptable work, according to the photo. Which was nice, and all. But inside I was creeped-out. His demeanor was that photos like this is routine and nothing out of the ordinary.
I still feel creeped-out that someone would take photos of me at work, without my knowledge, consent, lie to me when asked about it. And e-mail them to higher-ups, or to whoever, For whatever reason. I never had any clue whatsoever that this ever happened at my job. The phone hadn't made a flash, or any kind of sound indicating that a photo had been taken. If I hadn't looked, I wouldn't have suspected. If the general manager hadn't shown me, I wouldn't have known.
I'm a devoted worker, I'm not a trouble-maker, and I always do the best job I'm capable of. And the place has plenty of security cameras, which one would think would make personal smartphone photos even less of a necessity. Security camera footage doesn't creep me out because it generally isn't watched if there isn't a problem. And its certainly not e-mailed, or dare i say, added to someone's personal creeper collection.
If I had NOT been doing my job, if I had been damaging equipment, if I had been stealing, or doing anything that I should NOT have been doing... I might understand this.
How am I supposed to focus on doing my job from now on, when I have no idea what someone behind my back might be doing with a smartphone? I think my biggest actual concern (aside from the creeper factor) is a photo taken of me that can be misconstrued as me doing something that I can be terminated for (and the low-level manager winning brownie points for it), I'm just curious, is this legal? If it is, do I at least have a legal right to be told when photographs of me are being taken?
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Kentucky
I was at my workplace doing my job routinely. I happened to look around and noticed a lower-level manager was behind me, pointing a smartphone directly at me. Smartphones are something I don't generally notice, because texting among management is fairly routine. Except the phone was pointed directly at me. So I asked "Are you filming me?" "No." So I forgot about it.
Later on, the general manager of the place pulled out his own smart phone and showed me a photo of me behind my back doing my job, which was the same incident I described above. He commented that I did acceptable work, according to the photo. Which was nice, and all. But inside I was creeped-out. His demeanor was that photos like this is routine and nothing out of the ordinary.
I still feel creeped-out that someone would take photos of me at work, without my knowledge, consent, lie to me when asked about it. And e-mail them to higher-ups, or to whoever, For whatever reason. I never had any clue whatsoever that this ever happened at my job. The phone hadn't made a flash, or any kind of sound indicating that a photo had been taken. If I hadn't looked, I wouldn't have suspected. If the general manager hadn't shown me, I wouldn't have known.
I'm a devoted worker, I'm not a trouble-maker, and I always do the best job I'm capable of. And the place has plenty of security cameras, which one would think would make personal smartphone photos even less of a necessity. Security camera footage doesn't creep me out because it generally isn't watched if there isn't a problem. And its certainly not e-mailed, or dare i say, added to someone's personal creeper collection.
If I had NOT been doing my job, if I had been damaging equipment, if I had been stealing, or doing anything that I should NOT have been doing... I might understand this.
How am I supposed to focus on doing my job from now on, when I have no idea what someone behind my back might be doing with a smartphone? I think my biggest actual concern (aside from the creeper factor) is a photo taken of me that can be misconstrued as me doing something that I can be terminated for (and the low-level manager winning brownie points for it), I'm just curious, is this legal? If it is, do I at least have a legal right to be told when photographs of me are being taken?