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I havent read all the comments, so I dont know if this was covered, but I will say that gift cards and visa-type cards bought in the US dont usually work in other countries. Thats super petty, but also kind of hilarious. The blog may have given them a reason to weigh that inappropriateness more heavily, but his actions at work were what got him fired. Technically the items in there still belong to the store and are not your private property yet, yeah, but itd be really weird. Its the current year, everyone knows that if you publish it online, the internet never forgets.. My bedroom windows face directly into another building behind me. And Ill bet that another part of the subconscious favoritism is due to the fact that you met the person who left the pens and notepads at the office. eness and HIPAA Awareness Training (800270) racy Awareness and HIPAA And if that doesnt turn up anything, its on to speculation and rumor spreading because nobody could be that boring, and there must be SOMETHING. I know both of my suggestions would not be easy and would require a huge amount of work, but it can be done. #1 I very much fall into the camp of anything more than a linkedin search is being too nosy. It was a fun treat and the remote people felt included. Found out she actually has less experience than me (both in the industry and in general), and based on my experience working with her so far, shes not particularly smarter or more knowledgeable or more anything than me. I think AAM defined it nicely. What Id value most would be permission to work from home for a day, but thats not really in the same category as office pizza, so I dont blame him for not offering it. This is an interesting exampleI recently ran across a reference to an architect and google image searched his name, figuring that was the easiest way to get a feel for his work. Even better, you can encourage reactive helping by communicating to colleagues that you're willing to help if needed, increasing the likelihood that they will ask for help directly. We started around the same time. Probably in much more detail than you really care aboutLOL. Ive had plenty of clients have to return them and be marked no gifts on our end. I dont assume that everything is published with explicit consent. Youre guessing what a single person would like, rather than what most people in a group of 20 would appreciate. Im sure you can find a better company for you. My coworker is one of those people who always googles new hires and he used to tell me stuff and I was like, Im good, dont tell me stuff. I think most people would agree thats invasive. Now if I want to have privacy and dance around in a cow costume then I shut the blinds so no one can see. Its potentially dangerous if it draws the attention of a stalker. None of my remote-only people are in town one is in the same state, but the others are 3-10 time zones away. I think it definitely depends on the salary of the employee in question, and also Id suggest that gift cards or something of the sort are preferable to reimbursement for meals, because for me, the cost of a $10 takeout order is DEFINITELY not worth the hassle of putting in an expense report. It is clearly not to my advantage for her to be giving out my former salary. Also some information like LinkedIn is there so people will look it up. Goon on you for being thoughtful, #5. Nah, these are presentations being given on your lunch time, so its fine for you to take that stuff home if you want to. CW sexual assault, and hopefully not too off topic. Theyre highly likely to fall under that that threshold. Agree. If you post something on social media for the public to see and are then shocked and surprised that the public sees it, thats on you. But clearly in this case, it wasnt working. I think the person with the dog walked into the house by themselves out of curiosity. Its not how it should be, but its how it is. (Well, I am sometimes tempted to see if any of them regularly post pictures of their dogs on public social media pages, because some of them have pretty awesome dogs. Its up there with giving out coupons for buy one get one in company gift bags for the holidays. Thats the same reason there are so many political signs up at election time. I would enjoy this more. If another llama farmer googles me to find out what kind of llamas I have, thats fine. a colleague shares the name of the medication, a colleague decides to send an invitation. manager to the hiring manager during reference checking. One time we were having a cupcake party to celebrate the completion of a huge multi-year project that he had played a significant role in (and had been hired for the project). I know one other person who likes this combo- my brother. Thats light years away from googling someone and accidentally seeing public information. I do think, however, that references should have some idea of the positions/levels you are applying for, though I doubt that would have helped in this case. There are things I used to be an expert in but dont recall currently because Im focused on the current project/programming language. Do you see a For Sale sign out front? A few months later, I had a meeting involving Mike, and got a really bad vibe from him (besides being rude, ironically racisist and condescending, he reminded me of an ex who assaulted me) and googled him. apple watch series 5 speaker replacement. Absolutely. But in general as a society we have deemed certain crime info to be a legitimate public interest that we should know about. Id be perfectly happy myself with a gift card to a nearby (by rural standards) pizza place and go pick it up myself. I think that is pretty common and not a big deal, I see in my linkedin profile view others doing the same quite frequently. In my field everyone has a website. But a lot of records that can turn up online arent the result of social media posting, or indeed posting anything at all. Thats a lot of effort for someone you dont know and downright disturbing. Just because someone took it too far with you doesnt mean just dont. That is on a whole other level. If I want to ask her to provide other recommendations for me, I need to remain in her good graces, and on the other hand, if I dont provide her name as a reference, there are sure to be questions about why. There are plenty of perfectly legal behaviors that are nonetheless creepy. Theres plenty of information about me on the internet that I never consented to be put there but have no control over taking it down. I dont think googling and paying for a background check are the same thing, I do agree that paying for the background check is a step farther than googling someone. I have been alone after hours with someone who started using softer phrases from the alt-right message boards that have now produced multiple mass shooters. One instance where Ive looked people up on LinkedIn is for higher ups in the company to see previous roles, to see what a path for myself could look like. I do get creeped out when I see someone liked one of them from five years ago. This debate reminds me of when a music video a certain Congresswoman made in college was re-posted by some of her political opponents. Do I mind that my coworker looked up/at my insta, no. Now with the advent of the internet, it is included in how information is disseminated publicly. The extreme majority of this content is placed online to be searched for and looked at. But thats because Ive always worked in industries that really stress the importance of having a digital presence and brand. Ive even been assigned in undergrad/grad classes to create an online portfolio and a LinkedIn account and got graded on it. Or the arrest record of the LW from the other day. The point of office meals and activities is building comradery, so is there really an equivalent for remote employees? I agree that telling you about their findings is a major part of the obnoxiousness around this kind of thing. I agree. Sure, its technically not my house yet, but Im under contract; so while its probably not legally trespassing, its essentially walking into someone elses house uninvited and is creepy AF. Yes its not ideal but its also not unusual because in a company of very varied job functions a director wont have done all of them. Some jobs are better about including remote folks than others. But now that I am making better wages, I dont really care if there is pizza or cake in the office while I am working remotely. But to then look them up on Facebook, notice their URL is a kind of username, look THAT up on Twitter, see they tweeted about home buying woes, go look up county records to find their address and go look at their house listing on Zillow etc. do I need to wear nylons to a job interview or are bare legs OK? @Collette I the phone and wallet examples I dont think are really the same or applicable because that is going through someones personal property. Another problem is when your manager has no clue what real success looks like in the role. Theyre not a gov agency but because they work with so many of their projects, not even candy is acceptable. I imagine its that way for a lot of people as well. In our work environment its ok to ask about previous experience (but not go into too much detail) but asking about someones education would be considered odd. It wasnt an amazing house or anything, just a pretty setting and a nice little house. I remember your story about the emery board! Curiosity isnt some weird unusual thing. I have had two bosses snoop around social media looking if I have a presence. Who wants to waste their time on something so stupid. Its almost certainly not work relevant that someone has bizzare and bizzarely strong (and in your opinion, highly mistaken) opinions on fan-fic / furries / vaccines / moon landing conspiracy theories / romance novels / anything else. If they are looking for information on my butter carving competitions, thats over the line. Does that make it OK to talk to your co-workers about their divorces and home prices? Maybe you dont need a reason to snoop, but by the same token, youre giving me a reason to think youre incredibly inconsiderate to everyone you do deep dives searches on. Too damn bad. And she took great delight in explaining that head office were not included as they always got treats, so it was their turn to miss out. I honestly dont have the desire to find out anything more about co-workers than what they tell me. Then again, we are a pretty mobile society, so its possible that someone from your small New England town will end up being a co-worker of yours in your new locale. Why on earth make it harder to be trapped in an office with them sixty hours a week by knowing things that may make you dislike them or find them weird? I have an unusual name. Thats purposeful. I would think a huge perk is never needing to remember your lunch and packing it to go! Checking out career paths and history is very helpful, to be sure. I am astounded by the supervisors naivete! Regarding My manager doesnt understand what I do. This might mean my manager doesnt understand my technical work. I said it last time if people really want privacy about something dont post it online. Yes. For example, yes, its undeniably stupid to post updates on your teenage angst on Livejournal under your real name. And lots of things are on the internet with no input from use.g. 6 months into my hire, unfortunately, that employee left the role. Thats how people can go from checking out a few social media accounts to paid for a background search. I had an experience related to the manager not knowing what I do One department hired me, but didnt have the budget for me so they technically put me in a different department and technically had to have me report to that departments head even though I was really working for a different department. The one we ended up selecting had a blog. But if youre going to do it, you need to be very careful not to spread gossipat the risk of damaging their reputation, and your own. At this point our remote staff are some of our longest tenured employees (they are employees who were hired when we had actual satellite offices in other states one of them has been with this org for over two decades) so the senior staff does try to find opportunities to make them feel included in main office recognition/fun when feasible. Me neither. Im saying that you can ask the OPs question without having any interest in snooping on coworkers (or in trying to do something wrong), simply because its an interesting discussion, particularly after reading a post like the one they referenced. I teach digital literacy and media, a lot of people dont know that. Exactly this with the minor exception of having the manager/director actually pick and communicate to you even a single metric for success I feel for your difficult experience. Most places have an explicit dollar amount. So it comes out nicely. When I saw a letter addressed to him I googled his name and found out he was an alleged sex offended, which was not something he was going to tell me himself. Wrong answer. Yes, a basic google search to make sure there are no red banners (eg RECENT boasts about wild and drunk parties, racist rants, sketchy schemes, or anything that contradicts their resume or application materials) can make a lot of sense. Those are typically compiled only from publicly available records the ones that go beyond public records typically requite you to have obtained consent and a social security number from the person youre looking up. When they go get their lunch. Same with deep dive searching. A quick google search to see what pops up? Things that were in private groups were put out in public by Google. I wonder if it would work for you to have everyone Skype in for a 2 or 3pm meeting thats basically just you telling them how awesome they are, and then giving everyone everywhere the rest of the afternoon off, no PTO usage necessary. I tried deflecting, but it hasnt worked. Doesnt employment verification typically include salary anyway? Trying to fix it has been absolutely more hassle than its worth. Thats not the situation at all. I could go out now videotaping people i dont know and put it online. I networked and rustled up clients, we successfully developed over 60 different training solutions each of those years, our clients rave about us but my great manager(s) just have no clue, no matter what proof I put in front of them. Tons of people with my name, and Ive also made a point in recent years to change my email address and not use the same username for too many places. This Director knows how all things work. When LiveJournal was popular in the late 90s, people posted stuff under their real names that theyd be mortified if their parents or non-computer-savvy friends saw. Some of us are curious to get a sense of new coworkers. I do think it can happen (though it shouldnt) i.e. I often get a Dragon Drink, which I dont think has any caffeine in it, if thats what youre avoiding. Yeah, thats real. Our workplace has remote sites, about 50 people in one location, and 30 spread out in small teams in different cities. So they worked (and billed for services) for *months* under a revoked license, until an entry-level staff member snooped and uncovered the truth. But I get that you think that level of curiosity is bad, so nosey makes sense from you. probably not!). We know our information is out there. UberEats and Postmates dont cover this area. If you google someone and find something you want to act on VERIFY IT! In their quest to be helpful they autofill a lot of sites; now I just use several different emails for different types of sites. Obvious people *can* look at any public information they want and theyre not doing anything wrong in a legal sense maybe one could debate whether the word snooping encompasses this type of behavior, but the words creepy and nosy definitely do, and those are generally not adjectives that most people want to bed described with. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs Huh, I thought, I wonder if we went to high school together! Thats not necessarily true. It was a bill that was enacted by the 104th U.S Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, as a federal law to protect sensitive . Its not driving by their house. Its definitely retaliation. What that LWs coworker did (gee, it would be a shame if the whole office found out you got arrested) was worse. This attitude is sad. That way the at home-ers can also have the same pizza. If you search for my name plus my field, youll get my profile on my employers website, and my LinkedIn and thats about it. #3. #5 We have a lot of remote team members. Many commenters here clearly dont know what the early days of the internet looked like. I can see how it reads that way, but considering how normal it is to google prospective job candidates or interviewers or new bosses, I think there is a definite grey area. Because of this, on a day-to-day level we function as a distributed team we rely primarily on a business text chat/collaboration platform, video calls, and a policy of keeping all our work in the magical cloud. Im intentional about keeping my off-site workers included in both regular work-related and social/sidebar conversations. I personally fully believe that there is no such thing as online privacy from a risk management standpoint. For #5 my spouse used to work remotely for a firm that did regular lunches out for the team, and a schmancy holiday party dinner for the employees and partners. They left the company and emailed our team their private Facebook name for post-work connections If you, a user, are seeing something on social media, that is probably stuff a private person (maybe not the right person, but a person who doesnt work for the social media company) consented to have public, at least in theory. It meets the legitimate work concern test. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs. Thats true, but Im not losing any sleep over some guy who wanted to be a paramedic firefighter not getting a job as such because he posted, more than once, that all black people should die (amongst other things). You still dont get it today, even though youre 35 and the news has been full of privacy breaches for the last what, 8 years? OP2: Since asking about previous salary is so common (ugh), she probably didnt think anything of telling them, especially when they approached it as a fair offer thing. I agree with Alison that if Im reading someones LiveJournal from 1998 thats too far, but a google search? Meanwhile my whole career Ive gotten loads of branded swag and lunches because I deal with logistics companies. Im not in favor of people googling candidates because you get to see their gender, race/ethnicity, and other things that can potentially color your unbiased view of a candidate (hiring ethics?). Because public records, amongst other things, have all gone digital it is very possible to find some very invasive things about a person that they DID not post. Fine? Its a boring and odd thing to do, but statistically someones probably done it. Like if I found out they had a restraining order against them or multiple arrests or something. MyLifePortal-Login - CVS Health Think of it in a more generic sense, like youre getting to know them, not that youre interviewing them for a job. Also, (a BAD example) I used to work somewhere where the staff directory was on the internet, not intranet! Also they have always had a few stations set up if the at home team wants to come in for some big event, theyre willing to find em seats and all. Unfortunately, there are some shady companies who think its ok to lowball you because youre out of work. The coworker who wanted to know how old I was (which I declined to answer in person) couldve done a quick Google search and come up with the answer. @pleaset, good perspective and Im glad you posted this. But it would never occur to me to feel like Im missing out on pizza. But even with that stuff I knew not to bring anything up I found from my search when I talked to them. I still get emails from people wanting to work for said company. I barely post anything online this isnt about me personally. Can they be invited to come in the office when there is a party? Yes, theres stuff that other people put up. Why is it different? The information contained herein is the property of CVS Health and subject to non-disclosure, security and . But its creepy. Ive had to go through the trainings for vendors who want to be able to participate in Federal contracts, and it IS strict. Would you make a distinction, though, between the neighbor across the way casually noticing something that catches their eye vs your neighbor across the way camped out by their window with a coffee cup watching you on purpose? Verified answer. One time my manager basically implied that he thought I was lying about the business need for a process to go one way just to prove another colleague wrong. I assume the blog was truthful (I tend to believe victims as well as bad vibes), but what if it hadnt been and he was solely fired on the basis of it? Similarly, if youre starting a business and file for a sole proprietorship, LLC or other type of corporation, you have to post your name and the name of the business in the local newspaper. Theyre good on a hot pizza and extra good on the cold leftover pizza the next day, like a salty little umami bomb.10 Examples Of Achieved Status, Articles C