'Timecard' App Tracks Workers, Woman Says

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'Timecard' App Tracks Workers, Woman Says

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) - A money-transfer company fired an employee for refusing to install an app that would track her location even when she was off the clock, the woman claims in court.
Myrna Arias sued Intermex Wire Transfer LLC in Kern County Superior Court on May 5.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Intermex describes itself on its website as " a leading processor of money-transfer services in the U.S. to Latin America corridor."

It has 30,000 locations worldwide and offers services in 45 states and 16 Latin American countries, the website adds.

Arias says she worked for Intermex as a sales executive and account manager from February 2014 to May 2014.

She was still working for rival NetSpend Corporation when she was hired. Her boss, Intermex's regional vice president of sales John Stubits, agreed to let her work for both NetSpend and Intermex for three months until she qualified for Intermex's medical insurance because she was suffering from a severe vitamin B-12 deficiency and did not want to lose her treatment, according to the complaint.

Arias says she did well at her job, meeting all her quotas and earning around $7,250 a month.
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Woman Found Out Her Company Was Tracking Her Movements 24/7 With an App, So She Deleted It. Now She Says She’s Been Fired for It.

Documents filed in Kern County Superior Court on May 5, which were uploaded by Ars Technica, say that Myrna Arias, who was employed last year as a sales executive at Intermex Wire Transfer in Bakersfield, was required to download Xora, a smartphone app that “contained a global positioning system (GPS), which tracked the exact location of the person processing the smartphone on which it was installed.” Courthouse News pointed out that Xora is now called ClickSoftware Solution.

The documents state that Arias and some coworkers asked the company if the app would track their movements outside of work.

“[John] Stubits, [regional vice president of sales,] admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone,” the filing stated.

Arias told her employer she didn’t mind the tracking while at work but that she considered its use during off-hours an “invasion of her privacy.”

“She likened the app to a prisoner’s ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal,” the filing continued.
 
PeoplesElbow

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Its a work phone she shouldn't delete anything from it. I would just get a metal cash box and put it in for when I wasn't at work.
 
GURPS

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PeoplesElbow said:
Its a work phone she shouldn't delete anything from it. I would just get a metal cash box and put it in for when I wasn't at work.
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it was her personal phone .... she was supposed to take calls at all hours




But everything changed in April 2014, when she claims Stubits told her and several other employees to download an app from Xora onto their smartphones that "contained a global positioning system function which tracked the exact location of the person possessing the smartphones on which it was installed."
 
DEEKAYPEE8569

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GURPS said:
it was her personal phone .... she was supposed to take calls at all hours




But everything changed in April 2014, when she claims Stubits told her and several other employees to download an app from Xora onto their smartphones that "contained a global positioning system function which tracked the exact location of the person possessing the smartphones on which it was installed."
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Unless Stubits or the company was going to pay these peoples' personal cell phone bills, and I was one of those folks, my answer would be a resounding 'ohhellno.' Then there's the Big Brother aspect. Again, 'ohhellno.'
 
PeoplesElbow

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GURPS said:
it was her personal phone .... she was supposed to take calls at all hours




But everything changed in April 2014, when she claims Stubits told her and several other employees to download an app from Xora onto their smartphones that "contained a global positioning system function which tracked the exact location of the person possessing the smartphones on which it was installed."
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Ah, I had understood that it was a work phone.

Hell when people I don't want to know my cell number I tell them I dont have a cell phone. I told a black belt project committee that when I clearly had my flip phone on my belt back in the day.
 
LibertyBeacon

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GURPS said:
it was her personal phone .... she was supposed to take calls at all hours




But everything changed in April 2014, when she claims Stubits told her and several other employees to download an app from Xora onto their smartphones that "contained a global positioning system function which tracked the exact location of the person possessing the smartphones on which it was installed."
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That doesn't really establish ownership.

Sadly, this article leaves out too many details to draw any reasonable conclusions. Again, ownership of the phone hasn't been established in that article. I hope that a court proceeding, should it get that far, would draw out enough facts and evidence to give it good consideration. Ownership is key. And even if she does own it, she could have signed an agreement as a condition of her employment; I'm pretty sure that would be an enforceable clause in an employment contract.

Was everyone required to do this? Or just a few? Or just her? I'll bet you Intermex's Stubits is not subject to 24/7 monitoring as this allegation would have us believe this woman is. Regardless of the subtleties here, and who owns the phone, it's hella creepy a company thinks they need to do this.

I always think of things like this when I hear people say government should be run like a business. No, it shouldn't. This is the kind of shenanigans private business pulls, and if it is true part of her employment agreement was to have this on her phone 24/7, then it sucks to be her I would think. This is far worse than anything we know about NSA activities if you ask me.

I'll betcha Stubits prolly has the hots for the broad. That's what will come out of this.
 
PeoplesElbow

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Im also guessing she isn't simply a clerk at a western union like store that wires illegal alien money to mexico.
 
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