Ha!

[quesarah]

On Monday I was grousing about the new Director wanting to collect all our personal contact information. Since the info is on file with HR I didn't see why he had to have it on file. I questioned the person who was given responsibility to collect the info and he relented and told me I didn't have to submit it if I wasn't comfortable.

This afternoon, my new Assistant Director emails the collected information to the Director and cc's everyone in the group. Meaning everyone now knows everyone else's address, home phone number...

Call me old-fashioned, but to me that's unprofessional. The guy who was collecting it sent out an email assuring everyone that "only Carole and Todd will have access to it." Guess what! You were wrong!

That ain't right.

Comments

[wafflelips.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's unprofessional and it's wrong. They should not be sharing contact info w/ everyone in the dept. Duh!

[spacey-lee.livejournal.com]

I feel uncomfortable enough handing out my home number to my coworkers (which I have to do when I'm on call) but my home address? I don't think I would. That's too creepy. That sucks that they lied and gave everybody your information.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they lied; the Assistant Director wasn't the guy collecting info. I'm sure the collector asked and was assure by the people who asked for the contact info that the list would be kept private.

It's just that the AD didn't realize that this information should be kept private. Duh. Since I have his address, I think I need to egg his house. Heh. >:D

[distraction77.livejournal.com]

Don't egg, complain. It is your privacy and you have a right to it. When I was in Cuba I didn't have a great number of friends at work, but everyone knew where everyone else lived. There was no privacy at all, so when one of my co-workers got a little crush on me he was able to call my room at all hours, harass my room mate, and stalk me. I don't know what set him off, he just decided that he liked me one day. The point is that people are nuts and you have a right to restrict your personal information as much as you want to. They shouldn't have had to say that it would be kept private and used on a need to know basis, it should be a given.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned that I work with a bunch of morons?

Seriously, I have complained to my supervisor. The fellow who was collecting the info apologized to me and said that since he was unable to guarantee confidentiality, he was happy I'd decided not to give him my information.

There are some fundamental areas in which my company is perfectly fucked.

[distraction77.livejournal.com]

Okay. They just suck.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

When I complained to my supervisor, her response was "Oh you're right. I didn't think of it that way." Duh.