A woman’s account of being allegedly fired after an AI-powered workplace monitoring system flagged her activity has sparked a debate online over employee surveillance and whether digital metrics can accurately measure productivity.
Shared by @allthingzabsurd on X, the woman is seen crying as she recalls being confronted by her boss over 14 minutes of inactivity recorded by the AI dashboard. She claimed she was not taking a break at the time and had instead gone downstairs to help a client.
According to her, her boss told her that the AI system tracked everything and that “the numbers don’t lie.” She further alleged that her badge was taken from her before she was escorted out of the workplace.
However, the woman then claimed she discovered a way
to access her boss’s AI account after remembering that he had previously told her that he used the same password for everything. She alleged that the password consisted of his dog’s name followed by “123” and claimed that it worked when she tried it on his account.
According to her account, the dashboard showed that her boss had recorded only “22nd, 4 and half hour active in one week,” which she presented as evidence that he was spending far less time actively working than she had been.
She claimed that she recorded the information and sent it to the entire company, including the owner. The woman further alleged that her boss subsequently appeared as active for three hours continuously because he was in a meeting explaining why he had fired an employee who, according to her, worked “6 times more than him.”
The claims have triggered a wider conversation about whether employee-monitoring software can accurately measure productivity. The incident has also raised questions about whether automated productivity metrics should be used in serious employment decisions, particularly when a brief period of inactivity may not necessarily indicate that an employee was avoiding work.
The X post sharing the video described the alleged incident as a case of “corporate karma” and claimed that the woman had accessed her boss’s account and found that he “barely works at all.” The post quickly drew reactions from users, with opinions divided over whether the woman was unfairly dismissed or crossed serious workplace boundaries by accessing her boss’s account.
One user wrote, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” With such low-trust culture, the organisation would rarely achieve anything great, while another suggested, “It seems they already wanted to fire her and just used it as a pretext.”
However, several users questioned the woman’s actions. One commenter said, “They technically have a legitimate reason. She has no business accessing info and no authority over the boss. This is a person who doesn’t seem to understand boundaries & basics of corporate hierarchy.”
Another user was similarly sceptical of the account, writing, “₹1,000 bet she’s not telling the full story. There are probably at least 10 more reasons behind her dismissal. Hiring someone costs a company thousands, if not lakhs. Companies don’t fire people without a reason. If she was let go, either she was consistently underperforming or made a serious mistake that the company couldn’t overlook. (1% chances her manager was psychopath)”
Meanwhile, another commenter took a more cynical view of the situation, saying, ““She logged into her boss’s account and exposed that he barely works at all” It’s called capitalism. 🤣”
A further reaction highlighted that both sides of the issue could be problematic, stating, “Micromanagement with a dose of toxic work culture is real, so is insider threat. Be aware of both aspects, be the firewall you want to protect you.”
Although the video appears to have been posted several days ago, it continues to attract attention online, particularly amid growing discussions around AI-based employee surveillance and whether productivity can truly be reduced to a set of digital activity numbers.
Disclaimer: This article is based on user-generated content. The claims made in the original post have not been independently verified by News18.
