HR/Legal issue

SJ_Jones

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

If you want a payout, build up the evidence and when you have enough, take sick leave.

Use the stress claim, use the fact you have had your self-esteem knocked, you feel depressed. People rip on you personally about the size of your big mamma booty and you feel very uncomfortable going into work.

Hopefully they will try and fire you after some time off, at which point, you file an unfair dismissal claim.

Lol - I love this!! (And just to point out, I'm a size 12!!!)

Mischa8

SueC wrote: »

Hang on, before we start beating up the OP too much, let's remind ourselves that we don't actually know why she has been given access to his emails.

I have access to my boss' emails so that I can sift through them, deal with the dross, and only bother him with the important stuff. I wouldn't be doing my job well if I didn't read them all.

Luckily I have a boss who is decent and sensible enough not to say anything he shouldn't via the email system, so I don't stumble across anything that causes me any angst.

Just piggybacking on the back of this reply.

As SueC says the whole point of most PA's (including me in the past) having access to their boss' emails is to sift through them, deal with junk etc, in no way to spy or be nosy. Your boss will often allocate you the task of:-

a) either replying on his behalf to some emails.
or
b) sifting through the rubbish and deleting it/actioning it.

For both of the above actions you need permission from a) your boss or b) IT team. You cannot just request this access to someone else's email inbox without their permission or approved permission from say IT team.

And it's true, you would not be doing your job well as a PA if you didn't read them all and/or action where necessary. A lot of what I've seen is purely business or drivel etc which is usually junk.

My current bosses are solicitors who have 2 PA's/legal secretaries but I work mostly for just the 1 boss. Neither myself nor the other admin member of staff have access to his inbox, nor do we want it! We don't have access to our other boss' email inboxes either. It turned out that my main boss looks at male escorting sites in his spare time (totally his busines!) so he probably DOES have some things to hide (more to the story than that but won't go into it here, LOL).

So just reiterating what SueC said. Trust me, on the whole most PAs who have Inbox access to boss' email inboxes do have it for a reason and it is justfied/actioned etc and although it's part of their job as a PA, I found it a more tedious part, nothing worse than weeding through dross!