I used an office computer to send an email for a friend and several weeks later, the name I signed allegedly comes up on the company payroll. I wrote a pretty foul letter to some girl my boy hates and I used his name on my email account. Now I feel that the manager was trying to send us a scare by asking who's Joe Gallagher and why's he on our payroll, but I feel the company read the email and wants to know who sent it. Isn't illegal to read anyone's private email, no matter where the origin of it sent? Who's in more shit? Me for using the company computer or the company for reading my email account? So far they haven't pinpointed me, but I don't think I did anything wrong while what they did was totally illegal.

 

Why the fuck was this moved?

 

OR an even better question, who the fuck cares?

 

nobody moved this thread, wtf you're talking about...

oh, and you're in shit for sending personal email using their resources. they did nothing wrong.

 

yeah. you are using the company's computer and eamil system, and they can read anything and everything they want.

 

T minus 10 to being fired

 

It is illegal to use company machine to send personal emails. Never ever use comapny PC, printers, faxes for personal use. It is illegal in most companies but heavily depends on the policy. Read the agreement you signed when you joined and you'll know if there is clauses regarding use of computers for personal use.

 

It's against company policy in almost every organization. It is NOT illegal.

 

Here's the sickest thing I found out today. I'm shitting about this whole mess all weekend and believe me, your replies didn't help me feel any better about using the company computer so anyway, a new employee comes to work for us and his name is none other than Joseph Gallagher. What are the freakin odds of that? I've learned my lesson, guys. Even though this was a false alarm, I won't be sending any emails or using that company computer for any personal use. This crazy coincidence was a sign to not mess with company property.

 

It would be pretty funny if the guy got canned because of your email.

 

The other reason you should never use company e-mail for personal e-mail is, you're opening the door to spam. This may be obvious to most of you but you should also never ever put your company e-mail address in at ANY web form fields for anything. We get tons of spam coming through our mail servers just because of this. I get ZERO.

 

OMG! I was thinking exactly that, but luckily for him, I sent the harsh e-mail many weeks before he got hired.