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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,657 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 03:18 PM Feb 2023

"Yesterday, the University of North Florida notified me that it had searched my email ..."

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

A professor at the University of North Florida. WTF.

Yesterday, my university notified me that it had searched my email and would be submitting some of them to the state legislature because they deal with DEI work.
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"Yesterday, the University of North Florida notified me that it had searched my email ..." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2023 OP
Reminds me of the branch head at my company, old looking geezer, who told me that he looks Baitball Blogger Feb 2023 #1
I had one of those coworkers Warpy Feb 2023 #7
DEI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion patphil Feb 2023 #2
Big Brother is watching. lpbk2713 Feb 2023 #3
Orwell DENVERPOPS Feb 2023 #11
Business email is the property of the business CloudWatcher Feb 2023 #4
I understand this, Business Email is the property of the business, but Raine1967 Feb 2023 #5
How is this business email? CloudWatcher Feb 2023 #15
In the 1980s I worked in Personnel at UC Santa Barbara. Labor law, both then & now... Hekate Feb 2023 #16
It is a public record. Anyone can submit a records request Jose Garcia Feb 2023 #20
DEI: Raine1967 Feb 2023 #6
Going through email and setting people up to get fired? Arrested? Warpy Feb 2023 #8
If you're an employee,the email is part of your job. They use it to contact you for perfectly legit Hekate Feb 2023 #17
Nazi Germany Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #9
For sure Rebl2 Feb 2023 #12
A blind dog NHvet Feb 2023 #10
I believe someone has to ASK them Hekate Feb 2023 #13
Florida is a fascist state. paleotn Feb 2023 #14
Most don't think NHvet Feb 2023 #18
DeSatan is determined to destroy Florida education... Sancho Feb 2023 #19

Baitball Blogger

(47,758 posts)
1. Reminds me of the branch head at my company, old looking geezer, who told me that he looks
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 03:21 PM
Feb 2023

into everyone's desk after work hours.

Same guy who introduced me to the company head, "This is so and so. She isn't a virgin. I know because I sat in on the interview."

They all have domination in mind.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
7. I had one of those coworkers
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 05:01 PM
Feb 2023

She saw dead people, so we knew she was off, but it was night shift and she did her job and we were all a little off one way or another, it's why we all gravitated to night shift.

Turned out she was keeping "dossiers" on all of us and calling the FBI and CIA every day. Yeah, she was fired. I wish I'd been able to read mine but they weren't shared. Damn it.

I've wondered what happened to her, if she ever managed to get some help, the licensing board is good about that from time to time. I hope so. A little bonkers is tolerable, massive paranoia needs some help.

DENVERPOPS

(9,871 posts)
11. Orwell
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:06 PM
Feb 2023

had it mostly right in 1984, the only thing he got totally wrong was that it isn't the Government you have to worry about, it is all the CORPORATIONS..............

Government merging with Corporations equals FASCISM..............

CloudWatcher

(1,922 posts)
4. Business email is the property of the business
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 04:48 PM
Feb 2023

People need to understand to never put in email anything you
don't want to read in a newspaper someday.

Raine1967

(11,600 posts)
5. I understand this, Business Email is the property of the business, but
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 04:57 PM
Feb 2023

this is a state college and she is an educator.

How is this business email? I'm trying to wrap my head around how research at a public school can be taken by the state for political reasons.

Something isn't right here.

CloudWatcher

(1,922 posts)
15. How is this business email?
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:29 PM
Feb 2023

If you're not paying for the email, then somebody else is ... and they own it
and set the rules.

How many people read the terms & conditions on their gmail account? How
many people read the terms & conditions from their IT department? How
many people are surprised that their email (and calendars and ...) are subject
to discoveries?

The biggest problem here is that the person is in Florida ....

Hekate

(94,388 posts)
16. In the 1980s I worked in Personnel at UC Santa Barbara. Labor law, both then & now...
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:38 PM
Feb 2023

You are on the clock — your time is theirs
You are in their building — your work product is theirs
You are using their computer or lab equipment — the contents are theirs
You create or invent a patentable item — the patent is theirs

There is NO presumption of privacy if you use the university’s computers for email or work. (Some have discovered the hard way that there is likewise no presumption of privacy if you cruise for porn.)

Use your own phone. Use your own computer. Never confuse theirs and yours, especially if part of your job involves taking your employer’s computer home.

Do. Not. Do. It.

I worked on the staff side, not the academic side. Academics are accustomed to having more freedom in how they use their time, especially in the old days. But the institution is an employer, and they can invoke their own rights, which are considerable.


Warpy

(113,130 posts)
8. Going through email and setting people up to get fired? Arrested?
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 05:04 PM
Feb 2023

That is just lovely. I'd certainly cancel my email account with the university. Sometimes "free" is far too expensive to maintain.

Hekate

(94,388 posts)
17. If you're an employee,the email is part of your job. They use it to contact you for perfectly legit
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:42 PM
Feb 2023

… reasons. It’s like deciding to unplug your office desk phone.

NHvet

(255 posts)
10. A blind dog
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:02 PM
Feb 2023

Could have seen this coming tin the fascist state of Floriduh. My question is where is the legal profession and ACLU on all of these assaults on our institutions and citizens??

paleotn

(19,062 posts)
14. Florida is a fascist state.
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:27 PM
Feb 2023

There's just no two ways about it. The voters twice had the chance to reject this shit. Apparently a majority of FL voters enjoy living in Nazi Florida.

NHvet

(255 posts)
18. Most don't think
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 08:28 PM
Feb 2023

And that's the problem. They don't think .. They don't think it will impact them, only others, nut in the end it usually does impact them though.

Although I understand and have lived in the Corporate America world and know the rules on Corporate time, use of corp technology and intellectual property assigning back to the corporation. But this is taking it another level when Big Brother comes for you over work emails. Now we have to worry about the word police. 1984 is a baby tale compared some of this stuff the GOP is trotting out. They want to control women, libraries, schools, colleges, work places, and all social aspects of American life. But don't talk about guns, or God! And lets not forget about the mighty job creators tax cuts, remember, it will all trickle down Remind me again of the party that is for small government? Republicans love to have government when it comes to town with cash after a tornado or hurricane hits.

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