USA Today’s Stephanie Armour has this piece today that presents an interesting downside to user-generated videos: videos made in the workplace. It seems that employees are making videos at work, or about work, and the results can be not-so-pretty.
Armour profiles one poor schlub, Michael De Kort, who used to work for Lockheed Martin. De Kort had the idea that some patrol boats made by the company were defective and decided to post a video about his concerns on YouTube after failing to catch management’s attention. Not surprisingly, the guy was fired and is now probably poison to most personnel managers; he’s working on a site for whistle-blowers.
I have to say that for the average disgruntled employee, or even an employee who harbors legitimate concerns over his or her company’s activities, the temptation to go around photographing and video taping stuff must be really strong. In fact, I bet there are tens of thousands, if not millions, of employees out there with incriminating evidence stored on their cell phones and other portable video recording devices. And they’re just itching for the right moment to post their stuff on YouTube or Flickr or some other web site.
Cynthia Brumfield at 1:58 PM|Comments(0)
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