I was a site manager for an employer who called a management meeting to proudly present new company policies. Please first understand that there were no existing issues with theft or mismanagement.captkilowatt wrote:My employer has also hired uniformed county deputies with every intention of doing searches of employee property such as lockers, autos, and lunch boxes. The explination for the searches is to prevent theft of company property, but guns in cars was also added.
The new policy would provide that senior management could order body searches, vehicle searches and searches of personal property at any time, even though there had never been any reason to institute this policy.
Included in the new policy was the installation of "security" cameras but the location and positioning of the cameras provided more coverage of employees than customers. These cameras could be monitored remotely by senior management at any time and they could also access previously recorded video from the remote location.
I had a meeting with THE manager, told him I was deeply distressed with his paranoia but hoped he would recover from it and gave him my resignation.