The one thing that constantly amazes me is the number of people who use their work e-mail for personal uses. Unfortunately, in this technological age, we sometimes forget that when we are at work that we are at WORK!
For instance, how many times do you forward cute little chain e-mails to all of your friends all over the world from your job?? How many times have you had long indepth conversation between a friend through e-mail where you are talking about relationships, after hour activities, or even the troubles in your life??? More importantly, how many of you have sent e-mails that you THOUGHT were private?
Come on now, I’m sure that each of you have done this, at least, once in your life. I’m not trying to give you a hard time but you gotta realize that you have NO expectation of privacy when you are using the company e-mail. What this means is that you can’t expect any e-mail that you send through the job to remain personal. You can’t expect that people will respect your right to privacy when it comes to your e-mail.
So what does that mean?? You better not say anything in your e-mail that you wouldn’t say in public. More importantly, if you intend for something that you want to be kept private, you better say it to the person to their face. The work e-mail is exactly that, the WORK e-mail.
Oh, and don’t think that by logging off and going to hotmail or yahoo or gmail on your work computer that you’re doing something. Mind you, some of these sites are protected from invasion of privacy. HOWEVER, your employer can still tell if you WENT to those sites and how long you were on those sites.
Remember this point, when you’re at work, treat it like that, that you are AT WORK! Don’t get so comfortable with using the company computer or more importantly, the COMPANY e-mail that you have to the point that you forget that somebody can ALWAYS monitor what you’re doing.
