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Manager posts TikTok video of employee's workplace incident, sparking online discourse: '"My company posted security footage on TikTok'

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    "My company posted security footage of me on TikTok."

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    My company posted security camera footage of me on TikTok. I don't have TikTok, but a coworker sent me a clip of me taken from one of my companies security cameras. Only managers and HR would have access to security cameras. I don't know who posted it they definitely didn't ask me.
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    I'm more than a little posed about this, and I'm wondering what my options are. Do I have any legal recourse? Please and thank you. Edit: My company recently took away the wifi, so replying is difficult. I appreciate everyone's advice/patience.
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    Update: First, thank you to everyone for the support and advice. It means a lot, and I appreciate it. So here's the current situation. After almost losing my thumb to a coolant pump, I decided to call it an early day so I could have a meltdown in private. I had been texting my parents about the TikTok all morning, and I drove over to talk to them about it after leaving work.
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    For those of you who are out of the loop, the TikTok is of me trying to remove a pump, and a pipe burst and blasted me with coolant. I was not injured, and the incident was entirely my fault. It turns out that it was posted by my manager, and not by my company. This complicates the situation because my manager and my dad have been friends since they were kids, and I've known him since I was an infant.
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    My dad contacted my manager and asked him to remove the TikTok, and he did. I feel slightly betrayed by my parents for telling him, but I also agree with them that it probably wasn't intentionally malicious. My manager seemed to think that because we had joked about the pipe bursting in the moment, it was OK for him to post it on social media without my knowledge.
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    I still haven't decided if I'm going to file a complaint with HR. It doesn't seem like it would solve anything at this point, nor do I think it would serve me in any way other than increasing tension at work. I've gotten what I wanted (more or less) so I think my best option is to accept it and move on. Once again, thank you to everyone for your advice and support. You've restored my faith in humanity a little bit today. Take care of yourselves, and each &♥ other.
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    ricst That happened at my place of work, and quite a few people were fired.
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    • dlongwing 8h ago Check the username on the video. Is it your company's official TikTok? If so, it's a misinformed PR attempt. Still worth bringing up and requesting that it get taken down. You'll get more resistance if it's something official, but if you're polite. and reasonable about the request you might see results.
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    If it's just some random account, then someone with access to the security cameras thought it'd be funny to post and doesn't understand how incredibly stupid that is.
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    I'd bring it up with HR and your manager. Send them the link, tell them that you're upset to see your privacy violated, but the bigger concern is that proprietary security information is being posted to the public. What if criminals used this footage to get an idea of camera coverage? (No one will and no one cares, but try to make it a company problem and not a you problem).
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    Point out that it'd have to be someone with access to the security cameras and ask them what the company policy is on exporting proprietary company information to 3rd parties. Try to sound reasonable and not I, like you're confused because of course no one would be posting video of you just for laughs. Then, having kicked over the anthill, watch HR scramble to find and discipline whoever did it.
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    QuasarKid 8h ago i'm over here more upset they took away your wifi... smh
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    IHMOO 7h ago • When you make grievance for the video, legal right or not bring up the potential of unclaimed funds owed to you for said video, they'll panic and take it down. Or can you and you can sue for being terminated "due to your injury". Fem in the neck.
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    . lydriseabove • 6h ago Make sure you didn't sign a social media clause when you were hired. They've become common practice and are usually tucked somewhere in the middle of a stack of onboarding papers.
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    Due_Ad8909 · 7h ago . Was the video of you in any way embarrassing or inappropriate? It sounds like you may have cause for a civil action if it was, I would speak with an employment attorney.
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    crujones43 7h ago Next time lock out and isolate the pump.
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    BigDokBallard 4h ago This happened to a family member - one of his supervisors put music and made an edit of a security cam clip of him falling due to unsafe pallets. A lawyer said there was no case and an internal review at the company said the supervisor wasn't at fault, so no justice
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    Neo_505 2h ago Companies have time for TikTok but not enough time to hand out those promotions or pay raises....
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    Graham2493 32m ago . I actually think this has been handled the best way possible. Manager got it wrong. Possibly over familiar with the op. Op tells parent who's friends with the manager. They call the manager & it gets put right. Op should chill & let it go imo.

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