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Huggles

Was off sick for a day last week. Found out a colleague was reading my personal emails :mad: isn't this invasion of privacy?

SpAcEd OuT

yes it is, I hope you gave him/her a slapping

Saruman

Depends... was it your work email address and he your superior with every right to track what you are doing with your work property, and indeed time?

Or were you silly enough to leave your hotmail or gmail signed in?

Anyway if not a windows repair will probably sort out without messing up much else.

xzanti

Yes I think so.. I never use my work email... I use yahoo all the time, just keep it minimalised... God knows who ends up reading the work ones.. :eek:

Siogfinsceal

oh my god what an @rsehole!! do you have any proof? legally if its your bosses/supervisors they woul dprob get away with it - I know they can in here for example. However if it was just a colleague then he should be disciplinied - id inform HR

robinph

Depends what position that employee works in as well though as you probably signed something when you started that will have said something along the lines of the email is not for private use and the company can access it.

Kojak

In my opinion that is invasion of privacy. As others have said use a seperate account like msn or Yahoo etc. so that your personal e-mails won't get read if this kind of thing happens again.

robinph

Kojak wrote:

... As others have said use a seperate account like msn or Yahoo etc. so that your personal e-mails won't get read if this kind of thing happens again.

And there would probably be something in the company policies as well about not using the internet access for accesing non work related sites, which would include the likes of Yahoo! and MSN.

seamus

TheGooner wrote:

Was off sick for a day last week. Found out a colleague was reading my personal emails :mad: isn't this invasion of privacy?

Yes and no. Assuming you signed an agreement when you joined that the company reserves the right to scan, monitor or read your email (that is, your work email address), then there's not a whole lot you can do except to confirm that your colleague was doing so with your superior's say-so.

As others say, use a gmail or hotmail account for personal email.

Huggles

Its my work email account but have my own hotmail emails filtered into a PRIVATE & PERSONAL FOLDER ARRRRRRRGGGHHHH Am going mental.

My colleague is in a mood with me cause I am sure I bitched at about him to a mate of mine in one of the emails.

@$$H*le :mad:

dlofnep

This is what you do. Go up to him, tell him "I don't like you." That gets rid of the whole secrecy thing. Then read his emails. Find the most embarrassing one. Print it out. Fold it up and give it to him. Watch his face turn red. Revenge is sweet.

Heyes

delete

BuffyBot

Its my work email account but have my own hotmail emails filtered into a PRIVATE & PERSONAL FOLDER ARRRRRRRGGGHHHH Am going mental.

My colleague is in a mood with me cause I am sure I bitched at about him to a mate of mine in one of the emails.

@$$H*le

Sounds like your own fault then tbh. You should never have anything on a work PC you wouldn't want other people in your company to see/read.

Cosine

If it was in your work email account then the company has full access to it even if the source is something private and confidential once its in the account they can and probably will access it if only for ****s and giggles. :v:

Yerman is an @rsehole for reading them so he shouldn't be bitchy if you complain about him in them. Revenge would be nice but more then likly you'll just have to live with it. Hard luck man but now you know to be more careful I guess

AngryBadger

It's pretty stupid to leave anything personal even remotely accessible in a work environment. Lesson learned, just be glad it wasn't your boss. Regarding your mate being in a mood, **** him, that's what he gets for reading people's private stuff.

If they read your personal webmail they probably shouldn't be doing that without your permission. But then again, should you be reading personal mail at work?

If it is a work provided email address you are out of luck.

tbh

Calling people stupid for leaving personal info in work isn't on. We all(well, most of us) do it. I use a work laptop and travel a fair bit, so I keep everything I need on a work machine. Of course I have password protection, and I don't make things obvious, but I think I'm entitled to expect a small amount of privacy, out of courtesy if nothing else. If HR or IT asked to see the contents of my hard drive for whatever reason, then I'd comply with no bothers (even if they read the personal stuff, which I don't believe they would, I would expect them to treat it as confidential), and if I caught a workmate reading through stuff, I'd be pissed off. It may not be advisable to do it, but just because you do it, doesn't mean you're stupid. Naive, maybe, but I'd rather live in a world where I didn't believe people were deliberatly trying to break into my machine, than go paranoid trying to keep things secret. It's my choice. I've considered the facts and made my decision.

if nobody posted about the stupid things they've done, boards wouldn't be worth reading, and you'd never get good advice. I hate the way someone posts saying "I did something stupid" and then the next posts are all "how could you be so stupid?" Spare me the righteous indignation. Just give advice or stfu. (thats not all directed at you btw, badger)

BuffyBot

It's so judgemental.

Oh dear, perhaps the OP and his friend should have just hugged and had a coke and thought the world to sing.

Just give advice or stfu.

Advice isn't always stuff you want to hear.

Cosine

You mightn't want to hear it but you will acept it if it is advice.

The whole point is that if you start a topic with "I've chopped me hand off, what should I do" you dont want 3 pages of "waaa you stoopid. you suxors!" when someone is looking for help then you should give advice and when its resolved then you call them a fool cuz they can laugh along with it

Binomate

TheGooner wrote:

Its my work email account but have my own hotmail emails filtered into a PRIVATE & PERSONAL FOLDER ARRRRRRRGGGHHHH Am going mental.

My colleague is in a mood with me cause I am sure I bitched at about him to a mate of mine in one of the emails.

@$$H*le :mad:

LOL! You don't have a reason to be angry with him for being upset with you. You bitched about him behind his back. You can be as angry with him as you like for him reading your emails, but not for being in a mood with you.

tbh

BuffyBot wrote:

Advice isn't always stuff you want to hear.

What does that even mean, in the context of what I said?

SpAcEd OuT

SpAcEd OuT wrote:

yes it is, I hope you gave him/her a slapping

agree also a breach of ethics in a workplace go to your boss asap and shame the person by telling everyone you can in work

AngryBadger

tbh wrote:

if nobody posted about the stupid things they've done, boards wouldn't be worth reading, and you'd never get good advice. I hate the way someone posts saying "I did something stupid" and then the next posts are all "how could you be so stupid?" Spare me the righteous indignation. Just give advice or stfu. (thats not all directed at you btw, badger)

What? You mean someone is more deserving of your scorn than me???



Seriously though, i completely agree with you, which means I'm fuly entitled to express the view that it's stupid to have anything personal on a computer that someone in your workplace may have access to is stupid. Why not buy yourslef a USB stick and keep it on there?

Having said that the guy who read this stuff is a 'tard. No question.

tbh

AngryBadger wrote:

What? You mean someone is more deserving of your scorn than me???

I'd have called it disdain, but thats semantics

Seriously though, i completely agree with you, which means I'm fuly entitled to express the view that it's stupid to have anything personal on a computer that someone in your workplace may have access to is stupid. Why not buy yourslef a USB stick and keep it on there?

Having said that the guy who read this stuff is a 'tard. No question.

Yeah, of course you can express your opinion, and I agreed with the majority of what you said, just thought it was a bit harsh to call the op - who I don't know btw - stupid, for being - at its kindest - too trusting. It's a personal thing with me, I hate it when people take advantage of trust, like what happened to the op. just makes everyone paranoid <_< o_o >_>


edit: When i said it wasn't all aimed at you, I meant that the first paragraph was, but the second wasn't. sorry if that wasn't clear btw

AngryBadger

tbh wrote:

edit: When i said it wasn't all aimed at you, I meant that the first paragraph was, but the second wasn't. sorry if that wasn't clear btw

We cool G

I guess I could have gone a little easier on him. I'll do better next time.