Smile, you're on camera!

Well, now that I'm out of my old office and into a new one, some very interesting things have been coming out. There were stories of telephone conversations and personal meetings regarding the most trivial of matters being recorded on audio cassettes, even before I'd "officially" finished. Hence it didn't come as a great surprise to me yesterday to hear that there were also hidden cameras in the office in various locations. To be honest I'm not overly concerned at this stage -- I've been paid my entitlements and I'm out of there, so there's little reason to be bothered about it. I just hope I gave whoever was watching a good show.

I just wonder why someone would bother. After all, any attempt to use that evidence as grounds for dismissing an employee would be an automatic admission of practices which I suspect are illegal (although I haven't had a chance to dig up the relevant legislation). In anycase, surely the grounds for the retention of an employee should be based around productivity, and this can be ascertained without "spying" on people. One wonders just how widespread this sort of behaviour really is in workplaces in Australia.

Either way, it's another reason I'm glad to be out of there.