One thing that never ceases to amaze us here at www.hivpoz.net is when people use their work email address on an HIV Positive Dating Site. Occasionally we send out Newsletters to inform people of a special discount or news about the site or something relevant to the site. We occasionally get an auto response from someone’s email address saying they are “out of the office” or “on vacations and will return in X Days or weeks”.
Then they return to work and find that someone was checking their email while they were away and find that someone has looked at or opened their email newsletter from an “HIV Positive Dating Site”. How smart is that? Then we get a nasty email from said person about anonymity this and that, when it was they who should have thought about the consequences of their actions.
I am an IT Consultant, and I consistently tell people in the workplace, “If you don’t want something to e seen or read, do not use your personal email at work. Why? Because the place of employment may have in place monitoring systems that record email addresses, passwords and other things.
I used to be a full time employee of a place that I was the head of the IT department. We did have in place a monitoring system that recorded passwords and email addresses. We also had a policy and employees had to sign it and understand that if they check their email at work it is subject to monitoring. Nothing was private at work and we did find several things employee’s were doing that we fired them for. Employee beware.
The fact that you use a work email address for an HIV Positive dating site is one thing, but the real situation here is the fact that you used a company email address for a Dating Site. It really doesn’t matter that it’s for people who are HIV Positive, it’s more of you were on the internet, on a dating site,w hen you should have been working. Not exactly what the company had in mind for your use of time. Right?
There are plenty of free email sites that you can get an email address from, hotmail, google, yahoo and many others. Take a moment and get yourself one to insure your privacy and anonymity.
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