cactuspete wrote:Woman fired in act of retaliation by district
As it turns out there is no state requirement to keep deleted email and this woman, thinking that there was such a law, refused to follow directions given to her by district leaders. Although other districts do have policies to keep deleted email for various amounts of time, each district -- at this time anyways -- gets to decide whether or not to keep email. The right thing in this case would have been for this woman to follow the directions of district leaders and refusing to do so was insubordination and so firing her was justified, IMHO.
Invading the privacy of others is NEVER doing the right thing. It was the leaders of the district (for a change) who wanted to respect the privacy of others and this lady was just an IT person in charge of email (and probably other things). Rather than leaning in favor of invading the privacy of people, she should have been leaning the other way. She's a disgrace to anyone who considers himself or herself to be a computer geek. Always protect the privacy of others and when compelled by unreasonable laws or unreasonable bosses to violate this policy, drag your feet and look for excuses to do the right thing anyways! This lady had a good boss who told her to do the right thing and she still insisted on doing the wrong thing. Fire the bitch!!! (If it was a guy, I'd have said, "Fire the jerk!!!" and so no bitching about me using the b-word.)