My manager read my personal emails, can I do anything about this? I'm very worried?

Question

Today I found out that my manager has been reading my personal emails on the work computer. The only reason I was logged into my personal GMAIL account was because I had emailed that email my routing and account # to get direct deposit to send to the main boss of the company because it's been 3 weeks into my employment and my manager still had not done that. It auto saved my information and I found out today that he logged in last week and today and has been reading my private emails.I had emails in there from dental school programs, dentist office inquiring about positions and other information for dental training. He copy and pasted the body of the emails into a word cdocument, printed them out and made me read them when he confronted me about emailing someone about a dentist front office position, he kept them in his pocket folded up. He then proceeded to ask for the email of the main dentist office owners email to get the 411 of what we were emailing about, I told him no, he got upset. I explained to him that he was making me very uncomfortable and I did not like where this was going as he shut the office door and made the other employees leave. I only logged on to email the main boss my info as he never did it and I needed to get paid so I could pay rent. Is there anything I can do since he has my emails printed out in my pocket, my email automatically saved into the computer and him not respecting me when I told him he made me uncomfortable? Did he do something illegal?

Answer 1

What you do on a work computer is their business. It sounds like he's crossing the line a little and nosing around, beyond simply monitoring what you yourself were doing. But I don't know that there's a ton you can do.



Most employers won't flip out about occasional checking of personal email, but in this day and age, it's safest to do it via your cell phone, and nothing else. You need to be sure to log out of such things, and to tell browsers to clear all info like saved passwords if you do do personal stuff briefly. Presumably he only found this because he or somebody else had to use the computer, and it popped up that it had saved the login info. You need to be doubly careful if anyone else uses the same computer and same login.



First and foremost, you should change the password so they cannot keep accessing the account.

Answer 2

Your problem is that you put your personal emails on your work computer. If your email was on that computer, then there isn't anything you can really do about it since the computer belongs to him/the company.



If he used the stored password on the computer to access your personal email, then that's where he could get in trouble. Just because you have the password stored on a work computer doesn't permit your manager to use it to impersonate you in order to access your private email.



(the reason you logged onto your personal email doesn't matter)

Answer 3

If you don't want your boss nosing around in your personal email, don't get into it at work. Simple as that. The work computer is NOT yours, the boss is responsible for what happens on HIS - not YOUR - network.



Get a throwaway account - yahoo, gmail or hotmail, and use that one to send yourself crap when you need to. Use it for spam. DON'T use it for "personal" stuff.



Did you bring the computer from home? No? Then it's not your computer.

Answer 4

He can look at anything he wants on your WORK computer. If you're worried don't use your work computer for any personal stuff.

Answer 5

Don't use your personal email at work. They have spywear. Just look at your email at home.

Answer 6

First of all you have no right to privacy at work once it goes on the work computer an employer has every right to access any of it. You should have logged out of your email and cleared the browser. If you wanted your private business to remain private you should not have had your personal business on a work computer.

Answer 7

When at work - NEVER use your personal email.

Answer 8

Two words, babe: "work computer." Think about it. (Sorry about the thinking. I would not suggest it unless I thought it was absolutely necessary.)