PRESCRIPTION PHOTO DEMAND

A camp counselor in Alabama says their boss asked for photos of every prescription label they take, then warned they could be fired if they refused.

The request landed at a small summer camp with only about 10 employees. According to the poster, the boss wanted "photos of the labels on all the prescriptions that I take" and said "she needed it for insurance purposes." That detail is where the alarm bells started ringing.

The counselor says the camp is tiny, which made the demand feel even more invasive. "I am not comfortable sharing that with her," the poster wrote, framing it as a privacy issue from the start. The medication labels would reveal exactly what prescriptions they use, information the poster did not want to hand over.

But the conversation did not stop there.

When the counselor pushed back, the boss reportedly escalated things quickly, telling them "she can fire me if I don't comply." That turned a strange request into a job threat. The poster then went online looking for answers, saying they had done some Googling and believed the boss could not require this, but wanted confirmation.

The setting added another layer to the question. The poster later clarified that it "is a day camp, not overnight," narrowing the context of the job and the role the camp played. The request still remained the same: prescription labels, photographed and sent in, supposedly for insurance.

For the counselor, the core issue was simple. The boss wanted documentation of all prescription medicines. The counselor did not want to provide it. And the boss said refusal could cost the job.

Those were the facts on the table: a summer camp in Alabama, a small staff, a demand for prescription photos, a stated insurance reason, and a direct threat of firing if the employee did not comply.