@PasswordNotFound wrote:
IANAL, but I think there is an expectation of privacy in email. The OP was wrong to unilaterally decide to change the date and it's clear from the responses that others agree with the scheduler.
I agree. Even though e-mails often become public, there's a reasonable expectation of privacy in e-mail communications. Because it happens doesn't make it right.
It was clear, as you say, that everyone understood the situation and that the scheduler was not in the wrong. She had every right to defend herself (although it wasn't necessary) and/or further explain the situation. But, I think that "right" stops with sharing private e-mails. A synopsis would have been fine. And it's certainly possible to write an objective synopsis. We shoppers do it all the time, and we don't expect to be accused of coloring our summaries by our own opinions.
No matter what the party who was in the wrong did or said, if any employee under my supervision posted the content of e-mails verbatim, I'd reprimand or fire him or her. It's not the way a professional conducts himself or herself. At least not in the corporate world with which I'm familiar.
This has happened on here before; I don't mean to call out the scheduler as being unique in this. But it's always TMI, and, imo, embarrassing.
Just because people today feel compelled to share every minute detail of their lives and the lives of others, that doesn't make it acceptable in the business/professional world. Social media's one thing, business is another. JMO, of course.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2016 11:05PM by BirdyC.