Workplace privacy

In regards to this topic, workplace privacy, there is a famous anecdote through Internet that I, deeply, want to share...

"Payne, a teacher in Winder, Georgia, made news for being fired when she posted a picture of herself holding a glass of wine in one hand and a pint of beer in the other on social media. Although this picture was posted on her personal social media account, it didn’t matter. Apparently, a parent saw her social media post and wasn’t too pleased with Payne drinking on her private time and posting about it on social media. The unsatisfied parent went ahead to complain to the school board, and this cost Payne her job.

Payne was soon summoned to the office of the head teacher at the school she worked and the interaction went something like this:

Head teacher: Do you have a Facebook page?

Payne: Yes

Head teacher: Do you have any pictures of yourself up there with alcohol?

Payne: Yes

Head teacher: Resign or be suspended."

Of course, it cost her job! 

In an interview with a publication, she said:

“I just want to be back in the classroom, if not that classroom, a classroom. I want to get back doing what I went to school for, my passion in life.”

In Payne’s case, teaching is her passion, her career… her dream. Yet, a simple privacy mistake cost her more than she had anticipated.

This is so crazy how countless people have lost their jobs due to easily-avoidable privacy mistakes. Countless people have lost their career. 

This and among other issues are increasing, getting bigger and bigger due to the fact that many companies are adopting measures concerning with the violation of privacy with their employes, that, of course, they do not consider it as violation at all.

They only see their own benefits and forget about employes' comfort and happiness.