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Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:06 am to Spankum
Does there happen to be like a wire oorrr possibly like a button that may either get pullllled or possibly pressed that could somehow, accidentally, impact its use?
Bc I wouldn’t want that to happen.
Bc I wouldn’t want that to happen.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:11 am to Spankum
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I’m considering wrapping the thing in aluminum foil or just frying the damn thing and seeing how they go about getting it operable again.
What would you do?
Not that shite.
You trying to get fired?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:39 am to Spankum
The skinny of GPS vehicle tracking systems:
The fine print of the systems tells employers that these systems are not accurate enough to be used for employee policing but rather paint a broad brush on activity.
They mostly use a version based on google maps and it's rarely if ever updated. If you are on an interstate it will think you are on a side road running parrellel and send in a report you're doing 70 in a twenty five all the time. If spread limits have changed they won't know and it will send in a speeding report...
Sometimes it will send in reports that you are 200 miles away from where you really are?
After about a week the management who thought this was a wonderful idea has had enough false flag email alearts and delegated the crappy system down to a $12 an hour office bag who then goes off on a power trip in making all of your field employees miserable.
But it gets worse, you as a manager discover from your insurance company that they are raising your rates now because you have installed this crap in the vehicles and had it give voice alearts to employees when it assumed they were going ten miles over the limit, hard breaking exectera...
Your fleet vehicle accident rate increases, employee moral unduly suffers and now you have a $12 an hour blart mall cop in a cubicle running off all your best employees to the company down the street who took these shitty things out already.
In the end as a competent manager you say frick this shite call your entire fleet into the shop pull these out throw them into a box to be stored in the warehouse and eventually shitcanned after it's all forgotten after some creative book keeping.
The end...
The fine print of the systems tells employers that these systems are not accurate enough to be used for employee policing but rather paint a broad brush on activity.
They mostly use a version based on google maps and it's rarely if ever updated. If you are on an interstate it will think you are on a side road running parrellel and send in a report you're doing 70 in a twenty five all the time. If spread limits have changed they won't know and it will send in a speeding report...
Sometimes it will send in reports that you are 200 miles away from where you really are?
After about a week the management who thought this was a wonderful idea has had enough false flag email alearts and delegated the crappy system down to a $12 an hour office bag who then goes off on a power trip in making all of your field employees miserable.
But it gets worse, you as a manager discover from your insurance company that they are raising your rates now because you have installed this crap in the vehicles and had it give voice alearts to employees when it assumed they were going ten miles over the limit, hard breaking exectera...
Your fleet vehicle accident rate increases, employee moral unduly suffers and now you have a $12 an hour blart mall cop in a cubicle running off all your best employees to the company down the street who took these shitty things out already.
In the end as a competent manager you say frick this shite call your entire fleet into the shop pull these out throw them into a box to be stored in the warehouse and eventually shitcanned after it's all forgotten after some creative book keeping.
The end...
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:50 am to Spankum
I hate it but the company is within its rights to do whatever it wants with a vehicle they own/lease.
I can sympathize with you though. Back when we lived in Florida I spent late August-the last week of September I wad flying back and forth from Silicon Valley dodging the hurricanes that pt a "X" on central Florida. The second trip was bad as I flew out at 8am but didn't land until the Bears season opener had just finished. So 2 weeks later we fly out on a Saturday afternoon and I make it very clear that we're going in at 7am (10am EDT) to get shite done so my Sunday isn't fricked up. I get into the office at 6:45 and just tear through my shite. I'm about 75% done when the group casually walks in at 9 and takes their time. I sat there for an hour because no once could leave until everything was finished. I go ahead and watched that old slowass ESPN game tracker and missed a quarter before ending up at Dave & Busters two blocks away. (Company policy allowed me to run that freaking bill up...and I did.)
Wednesday comes and somebody started bitching about me listening to sports radio. Boss threatens auditing computer records and we bet into an argument about the lazy asses on Sunday. I STFU and sandbagged that day and the next. Prior to all this I had made a deal to go as long as it didn't affect my trip to Chicago on Friday. So Friday morning comes, I check out of the hotel, and give a big "frick you" to the lazyasses by turning the nicest of the shared rentals in at the airport.
Chicago was great...my first time at Wrigley was ironically Sosa's last. Grossman got hurt that Sunday just as I was ordering the shitload of food so the Bears game I went to ended up being terrible with TO being peak a-hole. And to top it off on the flight back I had to loudly tell the younger black lady to turn her damn phone off as the plane was rolling down the runway after 10 minutes of hinting and dirty looks. Of course MCO was a bigger shithole after hurricane 4 went through.
So yeah... you may hate it but there are ways to get a bit of that off your chest going the other way.
I can sympathize with you though. Back when we lived in Florida I spent late August-the last week of September I wad flying back and forth from Silicon Valley dodging the hurricanes that pt a "X" on central Florida. The second trip was bad as I flew out at 8am but didn't land until the Bears season opener had just finished. So 2 weeks later we fly out on a Saturday afternoon and I make it very clear that we're going in at 7am (10am EDT) to get shite done so my Sunday isn't fricked up. I get into the office at 6:45 and just tear through my shite. I'm about 75% done when the group casually walks in at 9 and takes their time. I sat there for an hour because no once could leave until everything was finished. I go ahead and watched that old slowass ESPN game tracker and missed a quarter before ending up at Dave & Busters two blocks away. (Company policy allowed me to run that freaking bill up...and I did.)
Wednesday comes and somebody started bitching about me listening to sports radio. Boss threatens auditing computer records and we bet into an argument about the lazy asses on Sunday. I STFU and sandbagged that day and the next. Prior to all this I had made a deal to go as long as it didn't affect my trip to Chicago on Friday. So Friday morning comes, I check out of the hotel, and give a big "frick you" to the lazyasses by turning the nicest of the shared rentals in at the airport.
Chicago was great...my first time at Wrigley was ironically Sosa's last. Grossman got hurt that Sunday just as I was ordering the shitload of food so the Bears game I went to ended up being terrible with TO being peak a-hole. And to top it off on the flight back I had to loudly tell the younger black lady to turn her damn phone off as the plane was rolling down the runway after 10 minutes of hinting and dirty looks. Of course MCO was a bigger shithole after hurricane 4 went through.
So yeah... you may hate it but there are ways to get a bit of that off your chest going the other way.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 1:53 am to Double Oh
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But he dont work for a rental car company so he probably doesnt care about that tracking device.
Depends on who he works for. A lot of fleet vehicles are purchased from rental companies.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 2:06 am to Dlab2013
quote:this...been going on since 2014
My phone tells me where my truck is these days without me paying for a service.....you don’t think employers know where their vehicles are? Wow. This country gets dumber by the day....
Posted on 7/30/20 at 2:17 am to Dlab2013
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My phone tells me where my truck is these days without me paying for a service.....you don’t think employers know where their vehicles are? Wow. This country gets dumber by the day....
What does that have to do with a rental car?
Speaking of dumb
Posted on 7/30/20 at 2:19 am to Spankum
It’s odd they wouldn’t just tell you but maybe they assume you know. My company phone, iPad and even computer can be tracked. I could care less.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 2:22 am to Celery
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You could use a jammer. But it would jam your cell phone too.
Better use raspberry, I bet they hate being jammed with raspberry!
Posted on 7/30/20 at 2:23 am to Bristol Dawg
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I could care less.
So you actually care?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 2:37 am to tgrbaitn08
Touché
Posted on 7/30/20 at 3:32 am to Spankum
How did you discover it?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 4:58 am to Gorilla Ball
For all of you that are for this, do they have the right to track you during your time off of work?
Posted on 7/30/20 at 5:12 am to Hangit
They have a right to track their vehicle 24/7.
My company truck has it and I COULDN'T CARE LESS (
). And they didn't tell me about it when I got the truck. A beeping alarm went off when I pulled out of my parking spot without the seatbelt on.
The Site Lead told me "that's your GPS going off". That's when I knew. It also beeps under harder-than-normal breaking, taking off too fast, turning too hard and when you hit 80mph.
And I'm fine with all of it.
My company truck has it and I COULDN'T CARE LESS (
). And they didn't tell me about it when I got the truck. A beeping alarm went off when I pulled out of my parking spot without the seatbelt on. The Site Lead told me "that's your GPS going off". That's when I knew. It also beeps under harder-than-normal breaking, taking off too fast, turning too hard and when you hit 80mph.
And I'm fine with all of it.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 5:16 am to Hangit
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For all of you that are for this, do they have the right to track you during your time off of work?
If it's a company owned asset, they are within their rights to track the location of that asset any time they choose.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 5:23 am to GeauxTigers0107
That's one that is for their employer tracking their private time. It is pretty 1984'ish. shite like this always turns into the slippery slope.
We noticed you shopped at Winn Dixie, Baw. We want you to only use Albertsons.
Why didn't you go vote on Tuesday, Darryl? We gave a lot of damned money to the Staci Abrams campaign and expected you to vote for her.
Darryl, the fart detector keeps going off. You are going to need to meet with the company nutritionist on your day off to get this under control.
Darryl, we are going to need your personal credit card statement every month so we can make sure you only buy company approved goods.
We noticed you shopped at Winn Dixie, Baw. We want you to only use Albertsons.
Why didn't you go vote on Tuesday, Darryl? We gave a lot of damned money to the Staci Abrams campaign and expected you to vote for her.
Darryl, the fart detector keeps going off. You are going to need to meet with the company nutritionist on your day off to get this under control.
Darryl, we are going to need your personal credit card statement every month so we can make sure you only buy company approved goods.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 5:31 am to Hangit
I get what you're saying but when I get home the truck gets parked and doesn't move again until its taking my arse back to work. I don't abuse it because it saves me a shite ton of obvious expenses and wear/tear on my personal vehicle.
Those who use their company vehicle during non-working hours for personal reasons I guess would have to work themselves through the moral conundrum you present.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 5:44 am to Spankum
I wouldn’t do anything wrong, not a big deal. They give you something to drive. I drive a company truck, I don’t know if I am tracked or not, but really don’t care.
Posted on 7/30/20 at 5:47 am to Spankum
How dare a company want to know where there asset is and to make sure its being used correctly.
If you only use the vehicle for what it is intended for the why would it matter if they are tracking it.
i feel this is in the same realm of random drug testing.......
If you only use the vehicle for what it is intended for the why would it matter if they are tracking it.
i feel this is in the same realm of random drug testing.......
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