There are times when I wander around some non-political sites just to see if I can find anything interesting to use here. Most of the time, actually the vast majority of the time, it’s a resounding “No!”.
However, this caught my interest as who would have thought that a rather low-tech establishment would be using high-tech to surveil its customers and employees?
A loop:
I’ve known that high-tech firms will monitor keystrokes and screen flips, time on the phone, time on other sites, and watch web traffic, but I never knew that they would use such to count coffee cups.
And those pesky customers like right in front of the coffee prep area – an hour and a quarter sipping a cup? OK, I know – I’m assuming that which is not in evidence. But what happens when it goes to 2 hours – a James Bond-style ejection seat? The bottom half of the electric chair? After all, this seems like a rather small shop from this angle, and that’s several “turns” that the owner will never get back. Is this like the overweight dude that stays at the local buffet for four hours?
I do wonder, however, how the employees get “jump-started” at the start of a shift. Do they have to stare up into the camera so that the system gets its “morning fixation,” Or do their lovely name badges now have RFID chips? Or just some guy marking a screen and then letting the system do the later heavy lifting? It’s hard to tell which but it is clear that the employee movement is being tracked carefully.
And do the employees know it? And are the customers giving their consent
(HT: 9Gag)
