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    Employee snaps secret pictures of coworkers slacking off, tattling to the boss: 'She will always find something wrong someone did even if it's minor'

    Taking pictures of someone without their consent is rarely okay. But it's especially egregious when you're doing it at the workplace. Even more so if you're doing it to get someone in trouble. That's a quick way to lose the respect of your colleagues. 

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      Hands hold a phone taking secret pictures of someone
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      How to address workplace tattle tale who takes secret photos?

      I am new to this job and there's a person who goes around taking secret photos tattle tailing on people for not doing their work. This makes many employees including myself feel uncomfortable. She will always find something wrong someone did even if it's minor and posts photos on our app. The boss doesn't seem to care that she does this. What should I do?
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      Commenters gave their takes on the situation.

      YouNeedCheeses Seems she's not doing her job either if she has time to be y'all's personal paparazzi. What a loser.
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      ElleJay74 Is your employer ok with this? It is a VERY creepy thing to do
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      originallycoolname Does the company have any policies regarding unauthorized filming/photography? They could be breaking policy - go to HR. Even if no policy, habitual behaviors like this can be considered harassment. Go to HR. Explicitly use the word harassment and intimidation. They will care more than your manager.
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    • Nobody likes a snitch. It's not wrong to call out bad behavior, and someone needs to do it, but that doesn't mean you should make a career out of ratting people out. You'll quickly learn that it will help you lose the respect of others and will do very little to ingratiate you with the higher-ups. This is especially true in minimum wage customer service settings. In those types of jobs, you're all in it together. It's you versus the customers, and you need to help each other out. If you don't have each other's backs, then the whole system goes tumbling down. 

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      Standard-Still-8128 Return the favour
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      SpaldingPenrodthe3rd Since your boss doesn't care just ignore her. Every pic she takes and post you should comment. How does she get any work done if she's so busy worrying about what other people are doing..
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      MoneyHouseArk So look, this person will self destruct, you need not do anything but your job. See people think acting like this will help them climb the ladder into management, it does the exact opposite. The people that get promoted are the adults in the room that ignore immature behavior and don't cause problems.
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      A coworker sneaks a photo of his workplace
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    • But that doesn't stop some people from violating the privacy of others and making themselves generally unappealing to work with. If everyone feels like they are being watched at all times, then it's hard to get anything done. Nobody wants to live in a surveillance state, especially when the enforcers are your own coworkers. In this story, though, the employee went a step above snitching and was actually invading the private space of the people they worked with. Taking sneaky photos of someone is a tell-tale sign you're in the wrong. If you stood by what you were doing, the photo wouldn't have to be secret. But that's what happened here, and the coworkers in question weren't quite sure what to do about it. Should they just grin and bear it and go along with the status quo, or should they bring it up to their boss, who didn't seem to care in the first place? The employee in question reached out to the internet with this quandary, and commenters came through with a lot of advice. It turns out many of us have had a coworker whom we couldn't trust, and there are lots of ways to navigate around that. Read on to see what they had to say. 

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      GrandDaddyDerp Just wait till you get an opportunity to take a picture of her taking a picture. Pick an arbitrary amount of time you estimate it takes to capture a pic and post about it. Search and estimate the number of posts like this she has made and use it to calculate the total time spent not working on her tasks. Make post.
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      hereforthedrama57 The HR way would be to tell HR that you're not comfortable having your photo taken and ask to be excluded from this activity. Ask them if there is a photo release in your contract then explain that, if not, you did not consent to your behavior and performance being tracked via photos from an equivalent employee. The quick way would be to start doing it back to her.
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      CatherineC1979 Taking photos is reportable to HR
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      my4floofs Time to hone those photography skills. Or ask her how she has so much time to be photographing and documenting other and how is she getting her work done?
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