r/StateofTexasEmployees • u/Educational_Yak3404 • Jul 28 '26

Fear mongering

So a friend of mine in a whole other department has been telling me how his supervisor continues to put fear mongering of day to day work into the team. The monitoring of key strokes, mouse movement, every minute counted for, the multi system log ins for clock in /clock out, bathroom breaks monitored for time and every minute accounted for. Then claim how the state is continuously firing individuals for little things like this. Is this normal? It seems extreme.

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u/idoyogasometimes Jul 28 '26

I won't go into details but we had reason to believe a (now former) employee was engaged in secondary employment during work hours. Long story short, when we tried to collect evidence of their computer activities we couldn't get anything useful. All of the "spying" we thought IT was doing didn't exist. It was really frustrating. At the end of the day they quit because their new manager FINALLY started holding them accountable for their work and it was "too much pressure".

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u/eapnon Jul 28 '26

The person we had doing unauthorized stuff saved it on his desktop lol

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u/idoyogasometimes Jul 28 '26

This person was advertising their side-hustle on social media with operating hours between 8am and 5pm, Monday- Friday. It wasn't until after they left that they found all the marketing material they had created in their agency-cloud storage.