We here at The Collared Sheep don’t hate our birth names.

There’s a reason we have pseudonyms on the site: It’s important to maintain your privacy in the workplace, and the New Jersey Supreme Court agreed last week with a ruling about personal e-mail sent from work.

A company should not have read e-mails a former employee wrote to her lawyer from a private, password-protected web account, even though she sent them from her employer’s computer, according to a state Supreme Court ruling [last week] that attorneys said could influence workplace privacy rules across the country.

Yes, it’s the best thing to come from the state since the Jersey Shore.

Personal e-mail at work is a touchy subject. If you really break it down, there shouldn’t be personal e-mail on company time. Notice the two conflicting words in that sentence: personal, company. However, we’re not robots who completely detatch from said personal lives during our 8, 9, 10 hours a day in the cube. I love how some shepherds refuse to see that.

Do I have my Gmail open all day? Yes. Would I be pissed if my company read my personal correspondence? Yes. Is this court ruling awesome? Yes.

Thankfully, I have no horror stories about this. But has anyone actually had an issue with personal e-mail sent/received at work? I’d love to hear about it.

And if your Gmail account is blocked at work, that really sucks. I feel sorry for you.

[Source: The Star-Ledger]

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