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By: mark
 a reply to Does Always On Mean Always Accountable to Your Employer?by mark on Jul 25, 2008 - 06:32 AM read 62 times Source: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1762#comment-154974 |
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I went and read the report referred to in the Globe article (It’s on the Canadian Association of University Teachers website: caut.ca ) and discovered that Wightman actually made.his arrangements via his home computer and ISP, not Acadia’s…misuse of his Acadia computer is something that the university first alleged in his firing and doesn’t appear to have provided any details of.
Also, it looks like they fired him last September but my google searches didn’t find anything about this case until he filed his lawsuit ten months later…If there wasn’t any publicity about his.indiscretion or the RCMP investigation that cleared him of illegality, its hard to see how he could be fired for damaging the university’s reputation or anything like that. Surely nobody could be employed if they can fired because they *MIGHT* embarass their employer!
But the real question for me is why my employer can expect to invade my personal life but expects the reverse not to happen. I answer business-related email and.phone calls via my personal cell phone from 6am until late at night. My boss regularly calls me at home after supper to talk about work things, my personal laptop is filled with documents that I am reading/writing for work, etc. My employer expects that I will interweave my personal and professional lives for its benefit…I’d get fired for insubordination if I didn’t…so how can they be so innocently surprised if I use my work computer to order gifts, or to access my gmail to send a message to my girlfriend?
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