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   In a series of viral TikToks, a remote worker alleged her   
   alleged employer—an undisclosed customer service company that   
   leads campaigns for finance technology company Klarna—spied on   
   her through her webcam, locked her out of her computer for   
   getting up from her desk, and suspended her for speaking out on   
   TikTok.   
      
   In the first viral TikTok, which has over 410,300 views and was   
   posted earlier in the week by TikToker Michae Jay   
   (@_michaethemua), the worker shows her laptop’s screen, which is   
   frozen with a webcam photo of herself away from her desk in her   
   kitchen.   
      
   “NOT AT DESK Action Applied. Please get approval from Supervisor   
   to retry,” the computer’s screen reads.   
      
   “Y’all these people done locked my computer. They done locked my   
   computer because I was in the kitchen cooking. Bro, this is why   
   they don’t want us working from home,” the TikToker says in the   
   video.   
      
   In a second video, the TikToker says she is not allowed to turn   
   off her webcam—which monitors her and takes several pictures of   
   her throughout the day—at work. She alleges her computer is   
   locked if she is caught getting up from her desk, using a mobile   
   device, or having another person is in the room.   
      
   In another video, the TikToker says she works for Klarna, a   
   fintech company. However, in a message to the Daily Dot, she   
   clarified she does not work directly as an employee for Klarna.   
   Instead, she claimed she works for an external customer service   
   company, which leads campaigns for Klarna. She declined to   
   disclose the name of her employer, saying she is waiting to hear   
   if she will be fired or not.   
      
   The TikToker also told the Daily Dot she was fired Thursday from   
   her job because of what she posted to TikTok. However, in   
   another video, she says although she was initially fired by a   
   human resources employee, she was shortly called into a Zoom   
   meeting where corporate employees informed her she was instead   
   suspended until a further investigation into her TikToks could   
   be conducted.   
      
   The viral videos posted by the TikToker sparked controversy in   
   the comments section about employee surveillance and toxic work-   
   from-home environments.   
      
   “This level of micromanagement will keep them with a high turn   
   over rate,” one user debated.   
      
   “Girl! It’s time to go,” a second urged.   
      
   “You should always cover your camera,” a third argued.   
      
   “Unfortunately I am not allowed to cover my camera. If it was up   
   to me, I wouldn’t even have the camera plugged in,” the TikToker   
   responds in a follow-up video.   
      
   In response to a comment that asked if the TikToker deals with   
   personal information—and that’s why her company requires her   
   activity to be monitored—the TikToker said she doesn’t deal with   
   anything sensitive like social security numbers.   
      
   In other videos, the TikToker says she has additional complaints   
   about her workplace. She claims she wasn’t warned when she   
   accepted the job her pay rate would be dependent upon how many   
   hours she works each week and says managers often try to argue   
   employees work fewer hours than they did.   
      
   She also complains of unprofessional language allegedly used by   
   managers and alleges the company does in fact have a high   
   turnover rate.   
      
   “I gotta hurry up and find me another job. Only reason I took   
   this job was because I really needed something at the time. And   
   you know, I got a child so I can’t be B.S.-ing and stuff like   
   that,” the TikToker says in a video.   
      
   The Daily Dot reached out to Klarna for comment via email.   
      
   Update July 15, 12:06pm CT: The TikToker tells the Daily Dot   
   that she’s been fired.   
      
   “Yes I feel like everything they are doing is out of retaliation   
   of me speaking out about how unprofessional they are. They had   
   me going back and forth to the job because they forgot to put   
   cords in my box and said they would only pay me for 2 hours of   
   tech time. When it took 4. Then they FIRED ME then called back   
   and added me to a zoom and said OH YOU ARE NOT FIRED you are   
   suspended then called me yesterday and said I’m fired,” she   
   wrote in a statement.   
      
   Update July 20, 11:09am CT: The Daily Dot learned [24]7.ai is   
   the company in question and that it has since stopped webcam   
   monitoring “any employee working on Klarna related campaigns.”   
      
   In a statement to the Daily Dot on Wednesday, a Klarna   
   spokesperson confirmed it partners with the California-based   
   software company and said it “asked [24]7.ai to investigate   
   these claims” and “to stop webcam monitoring immediately for any   
      
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