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Subject:Re: Warning: . E-mail can cost your job From:Margaret Redding <ab555 -at- FREENET -dot- CARLETON -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 6 Dec 1993 10:05:10 -0500
Sounds to me as if your former employer was looking for some reason to
turn on you, and could only find this one, using e-mail for private
use. After all, this list is very informative, and
any employer can surely only benefit if his/her employees take time
to learn more about their trade.
Margaret
>Back on line at last. Due to a recent
disagreement
with my >r employer I am now "suspended pending dismissal". My
>employer felt that my participation in the discussions on
>this list constituted "private use" and (although such is
>not forbidden in the regulations governing its use) considered
>that such use of e-mail was sufficient to have me marched off
>the premises.
>So, a word to the wise. Please be careful what you say. Looking
>for a new job in these time s of recession is not funny ... and
>it feelds s pretty ridiculous trying to explain why you got the
>boot when the reasons are so ridiculous.
>Reh Simon North.
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Margaret Redding ab555 -at- freenet -dot- carleton -dot- ca
Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA