In some states, break rooms are considered places where employees can expect a reasonable degree of privacy. If you’re in one of those states, those cameras don’t belong there. As a salon owner, I only care about the conversations happening on the floor where everyone within earshot could potentially overhear them. I couldn’t care less what people talk about in the non-customer areas of the salon.

And yes, the answer is one-sided. I don’t owe anyone neutrality on issues of professionalism, lol. Conversations should always be appropriate on the salon floor. If you consider that opinion objectionable, consider how you’d feel if one of your coworkers spent all day having loud conversations about controversial, inflammatory, or severely inappropriate topics. That coworker would make at least some of your clients uncomfortable to the point that they’d complain and/or leave the salon altogether. Now consider how you’d feel if you knew this coworker’s loud conversations to be impacting your ability to retain clients and, by extension, your paycheck. You’d likely want the salon owner to intervene, right?

Being professional doesn’t mean being a robot. It means being considerate and conscientious of the fact that you work in a fishbowl and that the other fish in that fishbowl might not be appreciative of inappropriate conversation.

Why the hell are you still working for them? Quit.