Re: Is My Email Blocked by my Employer???
From: Leythos (void@nowhere.com)Date: 09/02/02
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From: Leythos <void@nowhere.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 00:27:40 GMT
In article <94e4806.0209010520.222fe6f2@posting.google.com>,
s_borodin@yahoo.com says...
> Hello,
>
> At my job, we clerical workers have no internet access or even floppy
> disk drives on our computers. I suppose this is to prevent workers
> from bringing in infected disks and also obviously to prevent
> slacking. We do have email, however, and I had subscribed to a couple
> of newsletters to get news updates and stuff. I also have emailed
> myself a few news articles from home to read during downtime (business
> is very slow right now). During the past few days at work, I haven't
> received any of these outside emails, and when I tried to send myself
> another one I got the "undeliverable mail" message "Server received
> Winsock error Connection refused."
>
> Is this the message I'd receive if my outside emails were being
> blocked by my employer? Although they certainly have the right to do
> that, I think it's a bit paranoid because I didn't get that much email
> and what I did get was certainly inocuous. I don't even receive those
> silly "joke" emails that many of my coworkers do. But then morale is
> rather low here and this is a factory. Workers often complain that it
> used to be a much better, "family-type" place to work before they
> expanded overseas. Management has used tactics like promising bonuses
> and then not giving them, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
>
> It's odd because no one has said anything to me about my email use,
> and my boss has expressed his satisfaction with my work.
>
> Any insight would be welcome.
Sophie,
I manage a large Eastern division of a company. In addition to being a
manager I have 20+ years in the IT business. On my networks everyone
signs a document stating that all communications via company resources
are property of the company and will/are monitored at any time without
notice/permission. In my years I've found what seemed to be good
employees spending an increasing amount of time doing "Personal" things
with the computer, and with the internet being common now, they spend
even more time on the net doing personal things.
Your company is responsible for anything that leaves their network, and
is also responsible for anything ON their network. If they let one lamer
abuse the system then try and enforce a "Rule" on another lamer the
second can claim that the company is harassing them since they were
aware of the first lamer and did noting - you must be consistent and
fair in all cases or you can't have rules.
As for your personal email - you can bet they know when you try to send
mail, and you can bet the log it. I check my logs using scripts every
day - and send notices with the fragment of the log that relates to them
and ask them to stop. If the offender doesn't stop it's a warning, time
off, then firing.
When I first got this position there was no one monitoring the traffic -
in less than a month I actually found an employee working in our office
that was working for the competition under several managers noses. I
quietly collected the evidence, and then presented it to our HR & Legal
departments and then fired the chap. I also sent notice to the company
that should I see them bidding on anything we had that I would take them
to court - never saw them at any meeting after that.
Personal email is just that - personal - get/send it from HOME not WORK.
-- -- Leythos999@columbus.rr.com (Remove 999 to reply to me)
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