This is how crazy my job is

[LauraMax]

We had a charge on our Verizon bill for some kind of identity theft protection. Evidently there are occasions when you enter your phone # on a website you're automatically signed up to some kind of service (unless you click on the fine print link next to it & opt out). So this happened to me, obviously by mistake.

Our mayor saw the charge (he has no life, goes through our phone bills w/a fine tooth comb), called the phone co., got my Yahoo email address, googled it & found two posts I made over the last 3 years. Copied & pasted the posts in an email to my boss & said "if Laura's middle name is XXX and she has a pug, clearly this charge came from her."

Well for god's sake, the charge is being waived, & if he wanted to know if that was my personal email, why didn't he just ASK ME?????? (BTW, thank goodness it isn't the same email I use for this forum! )

This is completely freaking me out. I feel terribly violated, & it makes me wonder, what will this man do next? Will he pull my SS# from our employee files & check my credit history & spending habits? Will he google my maiden name & contact my ex husband? He is truly disturbed!

I cannot believe I work for these crazies. Part of me just wants to get fired & collect unemployment so I can GTF away from them. Hopefully this latest rant will be useful as a good lesson for everyone here--be extremely careful w/your personal emails & the stuff you do on your computer at work.

 

[dr.mel_PT]

OMG wow, that is scary!! This man has nothing better to do than police everyone and their personal life?! I don't even know what to say...

 

[JoanC]

I'm surprised you are able to use your work computer for anything personal at work.

 

[Janis]

Our mayor saw the charge (he has no life, goes through our phone bills w/a fine tooth comb), called the phone co., got my Yahoo email address, googled it & found two posts I made over the last 3 years. Copied & pasted the posts in an email to my boss & said "if Laura's middle name is XXX and she has a pug, clearly this charge came from her."

Well for god's sake, the charge is being waived, & if he wanted to know if that was my personal email, why didn't he just ASK ME?????? (BTW, thank goodness it isn't the same email I use for this forum! )

This is completely freaking me out. I feel terribly violated, & it makes me wonder, what will this man do next? Will he pull my SS# from our employee files & check my credit history & spending habits? Will he google my maiden name & contact my ex husband? He is truly disturbed!

I am shocked! I cannot believe he would go to all that trouble for a minuscule charge that amounted to nada!! He has no life is right. I would be mad that my mayor isn't out making my town safe from real criminals, not hiding inside his office looking for billing errors!

 

[morningstar]

be extremely careful w/your personal emails & the stuff you do on your computer at work.

Not just at work- google yourself and see if anything embarrassing or dangerous comes up. Google your first and last name altogether too, and with a middle initial, google your email address, everything. And remember, everything stays on the net for freakin' ever. And remember, if you have signed up on Facebook, or have a user page on Bodybuilding.com or another forum, you cannot delete it. You can only deactivate it- the information on the page is still there and accessible to anyone with the right skills and software. Get rid of everything personal you can find, if you can.

People have posted stuff on this forum about their jobs (and their lives) that would make it very easy to identify them, should someone really be looking. Laura, I'm sorry, but I would recommend altering your original post to be less identifiable as coming from you. We tend to think of the internet as anonymous, when in truth, it is the exact opposite.

 

[Havingfun]

work computers

Hi,

At my work they can access any website page that you have accessed with the click of a button. It just brings up a long list. Also, which I didn't know, is that deleted files are not really deleted. I thought I had mistakenly deleted a file and the tech guy came in with 3 different programs and pulled up every file I had ever deleted on my computer. I'm so much more careful now and if I delete a file, I delete the entire contents then hit delete. I'm sure some people know all of this, but I sure didn't.

Tracy