cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51905809
Starts to feel like a wave of this kind of BS is hitting the world.
While the glasses are definitely a problem, this seems to be more about the general manager just being an utter cunt.
“At this point, my friend’s husband’s getting frustrated, and he’s like, ‘You need to give me my ID back,’” Marilyn said. “The GM threatens to call the cops on my friend’s husband and threatens to ban him.”
“OK, call the cops.” is what they should have said.
which resulted in her considering other gyms entirely.
Considering!?
“OK, call the cops.” is what they should have said.
If you are ever in a situation that you need the cops; it is almost always in your best interest to be the one who calls. Cops are dumb AF and will blindly believe the reporting party unless things are extremely obvious otherwise.
Yup, the answer is always, “don’t worry, I’ll call them for you.” But only if you absolutely have to call the cops. Otherwise, don’t ever call the cops.
Yeah, the looney manager was clearly bluffing. I reckon withholding your driving licence would justify calling them. That can’t be legal. I’m kind of baffled why they left it with him in the first place.
The source for this article is not great. Maybe OP should consider that before sharing it here.
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You’re not missing out on anything, the entire article reads like an ai hallucinating with a bit of psychosis
It’s even blocked by my spam and malware filter.
did AI write that article? what a mess of words
Newsbreak is essentially run by AI at this point.
Call them creeper glasses.
Mark Zuckerberg Creeper Glasses? :)
Zuckerberg Surveillance Pervert Glasses.
now we have fucking start putting signs to ban recording glasses too? fucking hell just be a decent human being so we don’t have to drown in rules.
Generally recording at gyms is already prohibited, but this was the gym manager using them.
Yeah but soon users will start using them too and when confronted they will say they didn’t know and then owners will have to start putting up signs because there is always some people that just lack the basic amount of common sense that is required to grasp this (on top of those who disobey it with bad faith).
Most gyms already have a “no photographs/videographs” sign, don’t they?
Idiots will assume it doesn’t mean their glasses.
I haven’t seen in the one I am going to but I can imagine people having to put up that sign too…
The gym already has security cameras, the fuck does he mean the glasses are for his “protection”?
He means like a condom. If he doesn’t record women at the gym for some spank bank material, he might get someone pregnant.
I’d imagine that in that job—if you’re not a perfectly fit young dude or a woman—there’s a lot of accusations of “being a creep.”
Imagine you’re the guy working that job and someone complains that there’s a mess in the women’s locker room. What do you do?
You ask a woman if there’s anyone else in there, maybe shout that you’re coming in to clean it up, etc. Then you walk into the women’s locker room and someone—anyone—sees a man walking into the women’s locker room. BAM! Instant creep status.
Are Meta’s glasses the answer? Fuck no! But I understand the “I need protection from accusations” argument.
What’s the alternative? Cameras in the locker room? Hidden cameras?
The guy probably thought that the glasses were big, ugly, and obvious (because they are) so no one could complain that they didn’t know they could be recorded in that guy’s presence.
What about a simple camera watching the floor with automatic deletion of data after 48 hours? Why should fucking META of all companies and the garbage manager have unlimited access to this material instead of being stored in a way that doesn’t fuck all clients over?
Why do you have such insecurites that need a fucking all encompassing nanny in form of an abusive GM?
I assume he doesn’t actually have access to the business cameras because he’s just an employee of a much larger organization.
Example: I work for a large organization and I do not have access to any cameras anywhere. I wouldn’t even know how to request it!
Also, the recordings need to last a lot longer than 48h. A month makes more sense.
How long recordings are stored is a point of discussion - i say for everything involving the police, when taking their overblown budgets into account, 48-72 hours are plenty.
And if this fuckwit does not have access, that’s how it should be, and that’s the same reason why he shouldn’t have any private recordings too (if we ignore that Meta is using that data for whatever they want)
That’s way too short. Because if the point is to protect yourself from accusations, you need to be able to go back in time to whatever the company/courts would say is a reasonable amount of time (and match that policy).
- A week after the event someone reports something.
- Corporate investigates and doesn’t tell the employee for a week or two. Maybe even longer.
If the police walks in to secure evidence, i am sure that you can implement a mechanism to freeze the current state of the storage. If it is public knowledge that businesses are not allowed by law to store surveillance data longer than a week, this will also be reflected in peoples behavior.
The title isn’t even accurate to what happened
I’m not sure how the glasses provide protection. Seems like corporate must get a constant stream of complaints and accusations about this bozo but recordings of him being such an ass would not really be much of a defense.
Cause the manosphere likes to tell every man that if they haven’t been falsely accused of something, it’s just a matter of time. So if they record everyone constantly, then they can “prove” that it was just a misunderstanding.
Of course, if the accusation is that they’re been a creep and recording people without consent…
I saw an article the other day about women in Spain not sunbathing topless anymore because of all the “nudify” apps and pervert glasses. Are gyms going to be next? And I mean “going to the gym”, not “working out topless”.
I already work out at home, it’s cheaper and there are no creepers.
Only thing I miss is the Sauna.
“He’s like, ‘Hey, you know, what happened with my wife earlier?’ The general manager then responded, saying, ‘Do you wanna get bonk with me?’ Like, do you wanna fight?” she recalls.
Is this what passes for a manager these days?
I feel like stupid is consistent. Someone who is stupid will wear these glasses, and also act like the manager in this story.
From now on, I deem them to be known as, “PERVVISION”
Dickhead with glasses for no real reason vrs victim content creator
Trash TV
