Someone elses emails

Mojisola

RedSoleShoes wrote: »

People keep telling me to confront them but I'm not sure that is the best idea. Don't want to get myself in trouble so thinking it might be best for me to just continue as I am and just say the bare minimum when work requires it.

Depending on how many "people" you've told, the chances are that someone will tell one of the pair or they'll overhear someone talking about it.

LadyMissA

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

not necessarily, it depends on the mail system that's used. If it's POP email then there's a good chance the mailboxes are stored locally rather than on a server so IT can't see inside it - without logging onto the PC as the user or pointing a mail app to their mailbox.
If they use Exchange then the mailbox is server based but you can create a local mailbox and have it delivered there; but even if it is a server based mailbox only Exchange admin have access to all mail. Still not allowed to look at it without a business reason though



grrrr, you edited while i was typing

yeah I edited it sorry

Well surely that depends on the IT policy you have signed? At my last job we were all made to sign one saying that the internet was only on between 12pm and 2pm and we could only use if for an hour if at lunch betwen that time (obviously it went off at 2pm) that the email was for work use only and IT could randomly check emails.

Sambucus_Nigra

RedSoleShoes wrote: »

I guess if I don't confront them, they will always wonder exactly what I did see and will never be able to ask me so I kind of have the upper hand.

Yes, unless one of the people that you have told tell one of them. But until then...

RedSoleShoes

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Yes, unless one of the people that you have told tell one of them. But until then...

I have only told one person at work, and i completely trust her. The 'people' are my boyfriend, family member and friend, so not anyone who would get me trouble at work.

LadyMissA

RedSoleShoes wrote: »

Yes,I am aware i shouldn't have been looking but I'm glad I did otherwise I would have continued to look like a mug by being friendly to these girls who are slating me. At least I can make them feel a bit cr4p about it by not being friendly at all with them anymore.

I guess if I don't confront them, they will always wonder exactly what I did see and will never be able to ask me so I kind of have the upper hand.

It doesnt take an email to slate someone behind the others back

Id make them feel more crap by being more than friendly, do not let anyone see that you know - carry on as normal - its only work and not the outisde world and if you don't hang out with them don't worry about it. They obviously have no work to do if all they are doing is emailing eachother all day about what you are wearing or something else equally not their concern!

Sambucus_Nigra

RedSoleShoes wrote: »

I have only told one person at work, and i completely trust her. The 'people' are my boyfriend, family member and friend, so not anyone who would get me trouble at work.

Good - keep it that way!

jojo_2012_2

OP you could always lie and say she left it open on the messages about you. Then see how your work take to this employee's use of work email to slag off their colleagues. Would serve them right if you ask me how dare they!

Nicki

I'd be livid if someone deliberately read a personal email I had sent, even from a work server. What if she had emailed her partner to remind him of an antenatal appointment before she had announced her pregnancy to the office. Or her office friend to say she had bad period pain/diarohea but was stuck on reception and could her friend bring her round some paracetemol/immodium to tide her over.

The fact that OP's invasion of this girl's privacy brought her to hear no good of herself serves her right. Perhaps the temp and the other colleague were gossiping behind her back because they had noticed her behaving in this kind of underhand way to others in the office and had formed a dislike of her because of it.

Mudd14

Nicki it is my opinion work emails should not be used for personnal use so if you do email someone personal then you should bare face that it might be read by your employer or even an employee, I am with the OP on this. I would report them to your boss as lets be honest it could be classed as bullying or harrassment.

scheming_gypsy

Mudd14 wrote: »

Nicki it is my opinion work emails should not be used for personnal use so if you do email someone personal then you should bare face that it might be read by your employer or even an employee, I am with the OP on this. I would report them to your boss as lets be honest it could be classed as bullying or harrassment.

just because your opinion is that you shouldn't use work email for personal use; doesn't mean that the rules change if you decide to grass.
If i think it's acceptable to rape and pillage, would it be an acceptable defence in court and get me off? no, would it buggery! So just because you don't agree with the x, y and z it doesn't mean the OP won't be the one in trouble if they reported it.