Can Email Get You Fired?
From MSN.Com
Misusing e-mail or browsing the wrong sites can cost you your job.
Tasha Newitt was aware her employer, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, had a policy restricting personal use of work computers, but she believed it focused on Web surfing, not e-mail. Nonetheless, she was careful to use her work e-mail primarily for professional matters. So she was stunned when the agency fired her after finding 418 personal e-mail messages received over a period of five months (or about 5 per workday) on her PC.Newitt isn't alone: Increasingly, managers are cracking down on employee Internet activity by drafting strict usage policies--and enforcing them through use of software that monitors surfing, examines e-mail, and restricts the sites an employee can browse to.
1 comment:
A true story. My wife knows the guy it happened to.
A Really Large Bank has a zero-tolarance, no-personal-use email policy.
An employee was sent from NYC to Arizona to install a new system. He finished early, changed his flight and sent an email to his secretary and another to his wife with the new flight and arrival time.
He was fired.
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