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Drawing the Line On Privacy At Work

"When does your workplace privacy meter start to buzz? Some employees resent employer-monitored e-mail. Others resent employer inquiries into their off-duty lives, random drug tests, surveillance cameras, dissemination of personal records or just the fact that their employer is watchful. There are many possible points of conflict between an employee's expectations of privacy and the employer's interest in managing its enterprise."

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User: mindym22
Date: 6/23/2004 12:56:00 PM

I really only have a problem with inquiries about off duty lives, and employers who make single, childless people work all the holidays etc.because they assume they have "no responsibilities at home" How do they know that? One bank I worked at gave all the married people first chioce for vacation time.

User: anonymous
Date: 12/18/2007 2:28:00 PM

years ago (when I was not in a supervisory position or officially on call) my boss's "sssistant" came physically down to where I lived (a hotel) and peered across the front desk to see if I had any (phone) messages in the room slot behind the hotel's desk. I was shocked and appalled when I found out about it! What a gross violation of privacy!! Doing this before I was asked if I had received their call (I was off duty) was unbelievable and my boss lightly laughed off my shock at such an action to my face. Thank goodness I'm mow happily retired now (after 24 years) In todays world such an action would merit legal action against the "assistant)...but then again, those were the old days and different times...in any time, however, such action is wrong with a capital W!

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