Timeline for Is this a breach of confidentiality or should my employers not have been so nosy?
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| May 14, 2014 at 23:29 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | @Peteris You are arguing logically. Take your argument up with them not with me. I am the one who gives the bad news and tells you what they think. What I think doesn't matter - It's their outfit and they run it any which way they want, as long as they don't break the law. I am not the one who needs to be dog shamed :) | |
| May 14, 2014 at 17:48 | comment | added | Peteris | Your definition of "confidential" seems very weird - by definition, confidential is something that is entrusted to someone, i.e., told that information and told to keep it secret. If I obtain info on Joe Blow's departure in any other way, then the fact that 'some management keeps that info confidential' is irrelevant, and also simply false, since they obviously have not kept it confidential. If it's written on the bathroom wall, then the person who wrote that may have breached confidentiality, but all the readers have no obligation to keep the no-more-confidential information a secret. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 17:10 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | Never said that keeping it confidential makes sense. Never said said that it makes sense to punish someone for breaching confidentiality when the info is open knowledge. But again, it's a prerogative of management to be pointy headed about anything they want, as long as they are not doing anything illegal. It's also our prerogative to push back when someone in management loses it and sends a memo "You shall immediately kneel and bow and scrape every time I take off my socks and wriggle my toes" - Not that I think that the law would be on our side in a right-to-work state if we pushed back :) | |
| May 14, 2014 at 16:41 | comment | added | starsplusplus | He's decided to retire and has already told his team. It hardly seems confidential at that point. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 15:15 | history | edited | Vietnhi Phuvan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2014 at 15:04 | history | answered | Vietnhi Phuvan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |