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Fired over an e-mail?
Posted by: ICanHelp
Date: 1/24/2008 12:56:23 PM
Has anyone ever been fired over an e-mail?
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goodboss |
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1/25/2008 10:10:00 AM |
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Are you asking because you/your friend were fired over an email and you want to find out others' experiences with this so that you can apply their experience to yours/your friend's in order to help you/your firend? Or are you asking because you want to help people who've been fired over an email? Please let us know which, and please elaborate about what sort of email your talking about, so that we can better answer your question. Thanks. |
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unlucky7 |
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1/28/2008 12:30:00 PM |
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No I have not- why? because I never put anything in e-mail that is inappropriate or non-bussiness related.
To understand your e-mail problem - one needs to know the "content" of the e-mail that got your fired. |
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matildagsd |
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1/31/2008 10:18:00 AM |
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Yes, I've known employees to have been fired over what they were saying in their emails. You can be fired by something you communicate in a business letter, can't you? Or say over the office phone? Sure, you can. Just depends on what you were saying.
Also, if you're using company software or company equipment for other than business reasons, you stand the risk of being fired by 'abusing' company property. |
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BonusOnus |
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3/3/2008 3:58:00 AM |
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Depends on what you wrote in your email.
If you use the company's computer to send/receive email, it is their property. They can spy on you and read your email. If you got fired for misusing email, they have a right to do that.
Listen, I work in the hi-tech field. I am not an IT guy but I worked for a company that dealt in security. That company was air-tight in security. They monitered all email. They monitered what websites you were surfing. They monitored what you were doing on your PC. I learned from that job experience that I should assume that anything I do with company property -- phone, email, business letters -- is being monitored.
I bought a laptop and a wireless service. I bring that to work and use that for personal email. I don't even use Yahoo IM on my work computer.
Don't assume that you have some privacy rights when you use company property because you do not. |
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goingcrazy |
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3/6/2008 8:28:00 PM |
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Someone else was fired, or so she believes, over an email I sent.
What I sent was not at work, not on my work email but at home, on my own computer, my own personal email.
It was a question sent anonymously to our state employees union about an unfair practice my supervisor had put into effect.
I was only asking a question. I did not intend it to get published in the union's newspaper. But it did.
My former coworker, who was not getting along with my boss (and who could really--no one does, that's why we have such a turnover) feels the boss thought she wrote it, and thus she was fired.
That was a year ago. The abuse continues. I think another is about to be let go. She was hired temporarily to fill the position quickly. Her position is now being searched, and of course, she has a chance, but does she, our boss is the chairperson of the search committee.
The abuse continues, someone is fired or leaves every year it seems, we love our jobs, we love the other people we work with, but with a boss who is never satisfied, for whom we're damned if we do, we're damned if we don't, we never know what to expect, what she will do next, everyone leaves.
I've been there longest now, going on my ninth year. I can't afford to quite. But I'm going crazy, afraid I'm going to lose it, seeing the abuse, seeing careers ruined, lives ruined, I hate it. Am I as bad as my boss for continuting to work for her and just standing by and watching it all? |
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