Got your period? Wear this headband.

[Jocasta]

German retail chain accused of using Stasi tactics to spy on staff.

Germany's cut-price supermarket chain Lidl was accused yesterday of using Stasi methods to spy on its staff and collect intimate details about their personal lives, including their relationships, bank accounts and the frequency of their lavatory breaks.

The allegations were published in Stern magazine, which said it had obtained hundreds of pages of surveillance reports compiled on Lidl staff in Germany and the Czech Republic by private detectives contracted to spy on employees.

Stern said the information was collected with miniature cameras that were set up in stores with the excuse that they were needed to deter shoplifters. The magazine said the style of the surveillance was almost identical to that used by the former East Germany's notorious Stasi secret police.

Another report from a Lidl store in the Czech Republic revealed that women staff members were banned from using the lavatory during their shifts. The only exception were women who were having their period. According to Stern, they were obliged to wear a headband, "visible from a distance", to denote the fact.



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What the heck?! There are other incidents concerning listening to phone calls but that just beggars belief!

[darko.]

"..so I sometimes went home with wet underwear."

[Jocasta]

^ Another typical day in the life of darko.

[darko.]

hey baby, don't hate the playa, hate the game

[Jocasta]

So some German's go to a neighbouring country and demand some of it's citizens wear a badge of distinction; who'd have thought it?!

[aloha]

Lidl is getting much trouble as it seems. it´s not only this spying of the people who work there, it´s also that they could check the pin codes or people´s cash cards, who the costumers entered when they paid with card.
they are checking all that out, but it seems it´s a bigger thing

[Ophelia]

It gives a whole new meaning to "The Scarlett Letter."