RE: [SAGE] Canadian law regarding personal accounts of terminated employees?

[Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, John LLOYD wrote:
> The following is not a legal opinion.

Indeed ;>

[scenarios of various things in email deleted]

This really does come back to "don't use corporate email for private
purposes".  The employer does own the contents of that mailbox, and
are within their rights to examine it[0] -at any time-.

For crying out loud - why do people -STILL- insist on getting private
mail at work, when it's cheap[1] and easy to get a mailbox of their
own?

...and why are they also surprised that leaving a job has consequences?
[not necessarily limited to their email - a phone call by the banker
in the previous example is going to result in "I'm sorry - <foo> doesn't
work here anymore"]

cheers!
[0] Depending on the stated policy, or lack thereof
[1] Or free
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