Tracker for human beings.

[Harness69]

guys aint just work horses, they have loves, lives and needs. sometimes they come into work hours. live and let live, have a bit of fun with the guys and share a bit of banter, they respect you then alarm man

 

[alarm man]

guys aint just work horses, they have loves, lives and needs. sometimes they come into work hours. live and let live, have a bit of fun with the guys and share a bit of banter, they respect you then alarm man

totally agree..works both ways

 

[Harness69]

both ways is the key mate, thats how to handle it..

 

[RogertheBodger]

Thanks guys you have some good ideas there, apart from vjsmarwick that is lol

Have a laugh, then think it through - he makes a good point.

Should imagine that the parents of the little girl missing in Wales tonight wish their Daughter was chipped and trackable.

Wouldn't advocate it for adults, but if it helped to stop child abductions, surely it would be worth considering?

 

[Marvo]

This isn't really an electrical discussion so I'll move it to chit-chat.

 

[Harness69]

unfortunately, you can't guard against everything in this world...

 

[Rampage]

Why not leave the phone outside your bosses house for a few hours very morning, then make the odd passing comment about how nice his wife is?

Not sure how that would help but it would be funny.

 

[derek preece]

It's their phones they have the right but if your doing nothing wrong what does it really matter. I think everyone should be chipped and everyone have it in different places then no more missing people what a saving in policing and stops child abduction.

Although I agree that in cases of children going missing then chips might be desirable I also believe that there is too much potential for abuse. People say "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about" if we end up living in a dictatorship or under an authoritarian government then we would have something to worry about, freedoms can be gradually eroded away piece by piece until you suddenly realise that you have none left. Don't forget that there are some people that agree with the principles of dictatorship (particularly those who would end up being in control).

 

[durhamspark]

shame common sense has gone out of fashion. i say employ good lads, trust em to do their job, accept they are gonna do some things they shouldnt and some things they wanna keep secret and let em get on with their job!

Yep and it goes the other way as well.
Pinch an hour off someone unfairly and it will cost you at least 10 hours work. The lad in question will be on a "go slow" cos he is mightily peed off with the firm, and his workmates will stop work periodically to discuss what has happened.

Treat them with a bit of leniency and common sense and they will put that extra bit in for you to make sure the job pays.

Someone who "wants" to work for you is worth twice as much as someone who "has" to work for you to pay his bills.

 

[Guest111]

I worked for a guy once who was a real tool and he started clock watching and moaning if I was 5 minutes late coming in,anyway he tried having a go one day and ended up loosing.Basically it went from me working so we started at 8 worked till 5 but if say it meant working till 5.45 to finish a job I,d do it but not book overtime,likewise if I turned in at say 8.10 I didn,t expect anything said,however when he started being arsey I would make sure that come 5pm I was no more than 20 minutes from home,and if that meant a 30 minute drive to spend 10 minutes finishing off a job the following morning then so be it.Guess who got bored first.

 

[Rauer]

Why don't you just delete the app or disable location services for it in settings

 

[sparks1973]

There's strength in numbers here mate, get everyone to switch their phones off at knocking off time and back on at starting time, when they ask why this is happening tell them straight. This might be enough after a few weeks to force a climb down but you all need to be doing this if you're the only one doing it you're the one who will be down the road at the first opportunity

you know, if you go to saltaire in bradford..(the model village that Titus Salt built for his workers)....theres some round towers there....these towers survay the whole of Salts fiefdom...including the residential areas , streets n all that......a bit of victorian `big brother`..lol....

 

[trev]

Yeah they ruled with a rod of iron back then because they could, people are more clued up now though and I think we should not be allowed to be pushed into some sort of gestapo, big brother is watching type scenario on the premise that "If you have nothing to hdie you have nothing to fear"
Successive governments have forced us into it using terrorism or organised crime syndicates as the monster under the bed but at work, as has been pointed out, there has to be some element of trust. Let the guys get away with a little bit I say, they're more likely to repay it when you need a little extra out of them.

 

[Stonsey]

a couple of weeks ago my other half was given a personal tracker in the form of a keyring, he was told while at work he had to keep it on him at all times, apparently it communicates with the tracker in his van, he has wrapped it in tin foil and put it in the van ash tray!

Micro management stinks!

I have a tracker on the van, it's a Navman qube 3, apparently one of the most sophisticated trackers available. I wrapped the GPS receiver up in about 5 layers of tin foil, although it hasn't disabled the tracking feature it has made it go all glitchy, got to have it checked on Monday next week so foil will be coming off Sunday. You can buy GPS signal blocker/jammers, plug them in to the smoke lighter and it blocks all GPS devices in a certain radius.

 

[trev]

So you're the one that made me sat nav bugger up!!!!!!
I'll get you Stonsey, I'm on to you now