[privacy] Scotts Employee Gone in a Puff of Smoke

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Boston Herald.

[snip]

Privacy in the modern workplace is virtually non-existent. Your employer
can put video cameras pretty much everywhere but the bathroom. Every
keystroke you make on your computer can be monitored. If you receive a
voicemail or e-mail at work, not only can it be listened to or read by your
boss, but it could be turned over to somebody who is suing your company.
Just about the only thing you can do at your desk that is truly private is
a live telephone conversation, due to strict wiretapping laws.

Scotts’ anti-smoking policy treats the lungs of employees as essentially
company property. As Scotts apparently sees it, you have no more right to
damage your lungs in your spare time then you do to drop a company laptop
off your roof.

Controversial? Absolutely. Unlawful? Probably not, at least under existing
laws.

[snip]

More:
http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=170723

Background:
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/workerfired1.htm

- - ferg

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