Anyone know the legalities of recording audio in your personal workspace? Basically the equivalent to turning on a tape recorder in your cubicle, and recording any sounds that happen to come into your cubicle?
Unfortunately I have to work within a few feet of some very uncontrolled, time-wasting, loud mouthed people, and my Human Resources department refuses to do anything about it (apparently I'm expected to keep headphones on all day with music blasting, to which I guess I will just have to sue someone when my hearing starts to go).
It's absolutely insane the stupidity I hear on a daily basis, and the low level of work it's obvious these people are doing. Makes me want to get on the phone and chat for 2-4 hours a day from work... but my work ETHIC does not permit this.
This is almost as stupid a situation as an that of an ex-wife posting things online (combined with what she says and does) that makes my children look at her with disdain on a regular basis. How stupid.
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No, it's probably not legal, just like you probably can't record a phone conversation in Florida without the other party's consent. What do you plan on doing with the recordings anyway? Do you think your HR department doesn't believe you? It's likely they're aware of what's going on and simply don't want to put the effort in to disciplinary action, or replacing those employees, in which case the recording will serve no purpose.
ReplyDeleteThis is the type of thing that you, as a supervisor level employee, should take to the supervisor of the employee(s) in question if HR doesn't act on it. If the supervisor doesn't act on it, then unfortunately you probably just have to live with it or find a job somewhere else with equal or greater pay/benefits and better quality of life.
That's the problem with working for a small, privately owned company. Something like that just wouldn't happen here.
Good advice. And.. when you've ALREADY taken it to the supervisor in question (since he IS the problem, and the catalyst for his own employees doing the same thing), what next? :-P
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