Ive been burned by this habit as well because god forbid someone speak to another human and ask them questions. Dont post it. We asked Peter Sokolowski, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, about the etymologies of the two words and . Colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs Didnt pass the background check. #1: About a decade ago some coworkers and I decided to Google each other. No see thats creepy. In the early 2000s I searched a woman online because I was legitimately concerned she might try to keep me from getting other contract jobs. Google didnt exist yet, and the search engines of the time werent very good. Besides, its a great way to bond with my coworkers and build networks. It still angers me irrationally because of how over the top it is. Same if youre in any kind of media type job. One can hardly post details of their personal life online and then claim that anyone who sees it is pre-judging or not getting to know them. Actually one of the things I miss most about working in an office is pawning off baked goods on my coworkers, though. It seems totally normal to me. Because public records, amongst other things, have all gone digital it is very possible to find some very invasive things about a person that they DID not post. Or if the boss wants to be nice ask them what they would like a slice of. Probably in much more detail than you really care aboutLOL. You are sending press releases about yourself to an audience of billions. I dont share your experiences but there are party pictures with me that I didnt know was posted until much later. And IIRC, Google will only suppress the original messages, not the replies. And while they may not be 100% truthful, observing their behavior and witnessing what theyre capable of on the job is going to provide a lot more information than looking them up on LinkedIn. Your colleague is either someone who works directly with you in the same organization or someone who's not in your organization but has similar roles and skills. I am in the midst of a job search after our company went through mass layoffs several months ago. And there can be good motivations and bad motivations. It meets the legitimate work concern test. Knowing this, I would be angry on your behalf if you cant keep a pen since theres no reasonable reason behind it. In contrast, a coworker doesn't work with you directly. Having zero commute, the ability to meet the cable guy at 2pm, pick my kid up at 5:05 and tidy the house over lunch is all the treats I need. if you bought a house, how much you paid for it. I googled a coworker once, years ago, because of something theyd said theyd done professionally, which interested me, and I wanted to check it out. They talked about their food blog at a staff meeting and I wanted to check it out! (this one is real for me). Not to make assumptions but the tone of a few of the things in LW3 raised an eyebrow and if thats how they are presenting themselves around the office I could see why things arent going well. I never consented to that, there is no way to get it removed (short of creating a shell company and selling your house to it), but there it is out there for everyone to see. I frequently google basic contact information usually through employer or professional listings and sometimes will come across something like X awarded prize in Occupation or X makes public announcement on Issue in Occupation, especially since some of these people have this sort of information on the sites I look at. Mine is the same as a very very famous person who was born in the same year, and in the same city, as I was nobody can ever find me via a quick google search! OP2: Since asking about previous salary is so common (ugh), she probably didnt think anything of telling them, especially when they approached it as a fair offer thing. What is an acceptable amount of internet research/snooping around on new coworkers? Its not on me, or any random person, to determine whether you intended to post something or not. Many commenters here clearly dont know what the early days of the internet looked like. Some I like better than others. Maybe its time to try again. In my department, supervisors will treat off-siters to a coffee or other food gift card about once a quarter. https://www.askamanager.org/2018/05/i-won-money-on-a-work-trip-to-vegas-do-i-have-to-donate-it-to-my-employer.html, https://www.askamanager.org/2018/12/update-i-won-money-on-a-work-trip-to-vegas-do-i-have-to-donate-it-to-my-employer.html. However, since it would have been on the news (various channels) and published in one or more newspapers, is it likely that no one you will ever work with would have seen or heard about it? And then theres my mother who, many years ago when Google Image Search became a thing, decided that the very best thing to try it out with was the full name of my then-boyfriend. @Collette I the phone and wallet examples I dont think are really the same or applicable because that is going through someones personal property. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs (which doesnt sound like the case). I literally would never think of just googling a co-worker. I will always Google and check out your website, your CV if thats online, an article you wrote (why wouldnt you want people to read an article you wrote!? Not understanding is one thing (normal!). What is an acceptable amount of internet research/snooping around on new coworkers? In my field we work internationally and tend to start off fairly formal, so I also need to make sure I have their title right and that I have their given name and family name the right way round, so I dont call a new contact Mr River when shes Dr Song. Driving by someones house once, if they are in the area, is normal behavior. The search results could be something the new CW posted herself. You were told. Can I ask what you would do/have done in an instance where you find something racist or homophobic? I google everyone. It took years to get rid of the rumors, and they are still popping up. LinkedIn is fine. Its been vetted by that individual for use in their professional life. Yeah, thats real. greyclovds 7 mo. I recognize its probably different for college students. There are several people with the same name in our area and hes gotten numerous calls from parents wanting to know how to sign their child up for the baseball team or does he work on vehicles on the weekend, etc. There are professional reasons to be a bit curious. And then browse around Facebook and find the names of some of them and post that too, connecting their images and names. We just dont expect that someone with no genuine reason to do so would pay to have a full background check done on us, and thats where it crosses the line. I just think that you did something stupid so I will take advantage of it to satisfy my own curiosity isnt the hill I would want to die on.). Theres definitely a line on how deep you go and even if you dont cross that line, you should never mention your snooping UNLESS you find out something genuinely relevant to HR. Im guessing the LW was probably thinking about this level of research, but was wondering how close it is to being inappropriate. Oh and also theyve been getting up to go refill their water a lot 15 times over the last two days! Eff that. There are common misunderstandings about what certain projects actually were whenever someone reads in it print that rarely happen through spoken conversations, because people see it through the lense of their history/experience (common problem for people who leave X industry but stay in tech). But I dont understand how people can post so much info online, but expect people not to look at it/up. If so, Im sorry. Ill look up clients, competitors, people in my industry. Instead, I found out that the boss daughter had been viciously murdered by her husband, and just what they could print in the paper was complete nightmare fuel. It also has the advantage of letting the employee choose the restaurant so they get something they will definitely enjoy. It sounds like some really good work but if the director wont hear it from OP, then ask the clients to tell the director. At all. Make sure the card image you upload in the app includes your bin/grp/pcn/and member ID numbers. But it still took a couple weeks for Googles algorithms to not display the porn-ish titled posts that no longer existed. Not so much anymore with the new rules in place at most clinics. Agreed. I certainly agree paying for a background check or PI on someone is a lot especially if the only reason is curiosity, it goes beyond a google search of someone. Those who are saying if you put it out there, its public and, basically, fair game and youre naive if you expect otherwise and then those who are saying you should still expect some things to remain private even if youve put it out there because we shouldnt be googling coworkers. When I was on a remote team, the manager let us expense a dinner for up to $50 once. Why would they bother? I think the people who think they should never be googled without a good reason are unreasonable, and wildly out of touch. Anything beyond that is snooping. That employee was deeply interested in the field and understood the needs and skillset. Thats out on the internet forever. Its one thing to dig through the caverns of the internet to get old information that a person may have no control over being public. Looking at a coworkers LinkedIn is not snooping. If its public, you are publicly broadcasting it to where billions of people can potentially see it. I dont know, I think that there can be times when youre a normal level of curious about another person but there isnt a good time/reason to ask them to go into it. Such reasons are theyre acting creepy or setting off that gut check response [another comment above here goes into an account of how their creep-radar went off and googling confirmed suspicions], they mention something in passing that makes you go Wait, what? Those are typically compiled only from publicly available records the ones that go beyond public records typically requite you to have obtained consent and a social security number from the person youre looking up. Especially since so much information that is out there was either not put there with the consent of the person who is being searched on or was made public without their consent. Vinhomes Green Bay > Kin trc p > colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs. Its okay for me to look at it, comment on your page (if that functionality is enabled), link to it, write a blog post about it, perform web searches on the information in your posts, contact you on that profile (if that functionality is enabled), even download your photos. Obviously this rule of thumb wouldnt help weird people like the background check dude, but it should be fine for everyone else. I would never share that kind of personal information with coworkers, but its archived on easily accessible news sites that I have no control over and I know it colors others perceptions of me. Im twenty something and I dont care either. So they interviewed and hired a candidate for a licensed position (not a lawyer, but like thatsomething you cant do without being authorized by a licensing body to do it). Looking at publicly broadcast information is in no way the same as using binoculars to look inside someones private home. Thats part of the reason Id give her a pass on it, and just make sure to head it off for next time. Ditto. Or is even that an overstep of boundaries? Not to mention that resumes are usually written for an audience of a hiring manager rather than a direct report. And Im saying thats not necessarily true. Say in the 1980s if I had a coworker and I was curious where they lived, I could go to the phone book, look up their name and find their address and you could know the neighborhood they live in. This is to say who knows why they are sending you but if you dont find them effective maybe let them know. we had a new employee a few years ago that was rumored to have harmed his ex) then any extent of search is fair game. I work from home (not by choice, theres just no room for us) and while I love some perks of it (save on gas, can wake up later, take a nap in bed during lunch, etc.)
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