A worker won $600,000 after Twitter said his goodbye messages showed he had resigned. The case holds valuable lessons for staff and employers.
A worker won $600,000 after Twitter said his goodbye messages showed he had resigned. The case holds valuable lessons for staff and employers.
A worker won $600,000 after Twitter said his goodbye messages showed he had resigned. The case holds valuable lessons for staff and employers.
A former Twitter employee, Gary Rooney, won about $600,000 for unfair dismissal after Twitter assumed he resigned by not responding to Elon Musk's "hardcore" work email.
The case highlighted the importance of clear communication between employers and employees, especially regarding significant changes in employment terms.
Rooney’s private Slack messages, where he discussed leaving, were used as evidence by Twitter, underscoring that internal communication on platforms like Slack is not always private and can be used in legal disputes.
That's common sense, frankly.
But people don't understand it.
Hell, no email sent or received is yours and likely can never be truly deleted off your company's exchsnge. Same with files etc.
It's not common knowledge, let's not pretend it is and educate people.
True that. I have to tell employees regularly to not send any chat or email they don’t want read in court. That usually gets the point across.
Most companies have a strict policy to delete everything off of exchange after a few months unless there is a reason to keep it longer. You can't bring up in court anything that wan daleted before you looked.
When I worked as a US FedGov contractor, I was greeted with a long warning banner every time I logged into my computer. The tl;dr version of it is "fuck your privacy". Being that I was part of cybersecurity for the site I was working at, I was one of the people doing the fucking. While we didn't read everything from everyone all the time, we were logging it and could pull it up, if we were performing an investigation. We also had some automated stuff scanning for patterns and keywords on a regular basis, which could trigger an investigation.
While I'm no longer in the FedGov space (thank the gods), I still assume that everything I do on my work system or with work accounts is being logged. Also, I'm still working in cybersecurity and am often still the one doing the privacy fucking. Yes, everything is being logged. We may not look at it today, we may not look at it tomorrow. But, when HR and Legal ask us about a user's activity, we can usually be pretty detailed. Act accordingly.
My company is better than most I've worked for. They tell you, upfront, anything on their equipment can be monitored for any reason with no warning.
But then, as part of the HR and acceptable use policy, no one will monitor your activities without just cause and investigation. Meaning in practice, "We're not going to look over your shoulder while you watch YouTube videos but if we notice you're watching a lot of or you start visiting porn sites, we're going to start monitoring you."
Now all that said, I still assume that my company knows every key I type on their laptop.
What made you leave gov space?