MyLifePortal-Login - CVS Health A few months later, I had a meeting involving Mike, and got a really bad vibe from him (besides being rude, ironically racisist and condescending, he reminded me of an ex who assaulted me) and googled him. Im a consultant. Once I Googled someone (not to be creepy, he set up a meeting with me and I wanted to see which office he worked so I could plan accordingly) and the first five results were all about him being fired from his last job for installing cameras in the womens restrooms (his mugshot was included, so it was easy to verify it was him). You said the OP is looking for plausible deniability because they want to snoop on coworkers. Basic Google search did bring that up. all seems fine to me. The point of office meals and activities is building comradery, so is there really an equivalent for remote employees? Actually what they can do is (1) collect all the swag they can, (2) fill out all the disclosure paperwork needed per item, (3) make an appointment with an upper-level HR person, and (4) bring all the swag and all the disclosure forms to help make the point. Thats not a typical situation. How to Deal with a Snooping Coworker - Career Trend So glad that went down in the results and now its generic people, like a vet or doctor or news host. But its creepy. Yeah, cumbersome and I think for some reason, I never did submit the receipt. See the links below. Im in a job with some pretty hefty commute times, so a lot of us dont live in the city where the job is. Nah, these are presentations being given on your lunch time, so its fine for you to take that stuff home if you want to. That instantly cured me of Googling people out of idle curiosity, especially coworkers that I have to see every day. But since I dont have one large office to put everyone in, even my on-campus staff are spread out in several locations. Its totally possible that this organization is just a poor fit, but maybe theres some feedback you can learn from in this crappy experience, too. Someone else mentioned that their twitter got hacked and it was posting various pornographic content. Re #1 I know this is arguable, but in my opinion, any public info about someone is fair game to look up. You still dont get it today, even though youre 35 and the news has been full of privacy breaches for the last what, 8 years? Not so much anymore with the new rules in place at most clinics. Working at home is still better than a slice of pizza. As a remote worker, Ive always enjoyed starbucks gift cards or coffee in the mail nice coffee and a mug at the holidays at the very least, and coffee a couple times a year or a subscription to a coffee/tea subscription box or something like that if you are frequently taking people out. Being a 250 lb giant hunk of muscle isnt protected, but it certainly wouldnt be fair not to hire him based on that characteristic. To me, its a lot more like someone is wearing a cow costume underneath their loose fit regular clothes so that you can see it poking out a little around the neckline. Matter of public record be damned, this was painful and personal and my boss would be absolutely mortified to know that anyone could read it. vocabulary. This. And there is probably a process for making sure the background check is accurate, which googling someone may not be. Exactly. We occasionally get HR notifications that such-and-such will be joining us in [capacity which will overlap with my role]. Walking onto a train car with just one other person and every other seat empty and sitting down next to that person is creepy. Seems irrational, but I dont care if they snoop, I just dont want to know about it. But the phone book example is a good one. The majority of my remote workers are not even in the same time zone, so it does challenge me to get more creative in general. I just got through through the conversation and moved on because I knew this was her way of trumpeting I found you on twitter! Then one day she explosively yelled at me because and follow this one through I was in a twitter thread with several people and made a comment relative to the thread. 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). I would feel comfortable saying ^ in front of them and our boss, so it makes sense. 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. Sure, someone could look in and see what youre doing. You are in public and everyone can see what you do. I havent read all the comments, so I dont know if this was covered, but I will say that gift cards and visa-type cards bought in the US dont usually work in other countries. I had an experience related to the manager not knowing what I do One department hired me, but didnt have the budget for me so they technically put me in a different department and technically had to have me report to that departments head even though I was really working for a different department. There were no disclosures. Well Id be fine with someone doing this to me, so its okay for me to do it! (She was older and didnt quite understand the internet.). Think of it in a more generic sense, like youre getting to know them, not that youre interviewing them for a job. Look, we live in a precarious time. If I did an interview on CNN six weeks ago, it would be silly of me to be shocked that people had seen it. I looked online and saw that there was an Insomnia Cookies near him, so I ordered some to be delivered to him a few minutes before the party. Dont beat yourself up about this. This is like trying to argue that its creepy to look someone up in the phone book or the Yellow Pages. I always assume someone will find it someday, so I am careful what I share always. Public records are now searchable when they didnt use to be available. Colleague vs. Coworker: What's the Difference? | InHerSight colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs Things can appear one way without context, and another way with context. I think that (in general, not just in this context) someone else doing something stupid does not mean you should take advantage of it. I assume people do it to me but if I ever did it to a coworker it would make me feel dirty. Especially with the technical manager example since people already tend to question the technical knowledge of women/POC. Whats something related I can do for my remote workers if Im going to feed the crew on-site? It seems totally normal to me. I did the exact same thing with an ex-boyfriends username from an online dating app. Thats not the same as going by a coworkers house when its part of your route or when you need to pick them up/drop them off. The fact that you didnt fully and truly understand the ramifications of the reach of your audience has no bearing on any of this. But Im not an HR pro I think the company should give people doing hiring clear guidelines on this. Basically, you dont have to have every curtain drawn shut on every window of your house to be able to reasonably expect that people arent going to watch you inside your home. The coworker who wanted to know how old I was (which I declined to answer in person) couldve done a quick Google search and come up with the answer. on their website which can then be drawn into other searches. Im all for not punishing people who have done nothing wrong, but the fix isnt to present hypotheticals when the situation is cut and dry. Thisis trueand yet I hesitate because internalized bias means some people feel less-safe based on protected characteristics. Honestly, I cant really imagine searching them, unless they told me they had a DeviantArt page or something. Once a quarter, we have a budget for a catered team lunch. But we can at least maintain the illusion of privacy, and that is almost as valuable. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs kasm 29, 2021 '' te g&246;nderildi tarafndan they&226; ve written him of so many times, but he&226; s always come back. Even if its a public place. Its a standard part of my interview prep. Theyre good on a hot pizza and extra good on the cold leftover pizza the next day, like a salty little umami bomb. 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. I dont think this is a strange complaint at all, because Ive reported to managers who have no idea what I do or what Im even supposed to be doing. While you can certainly find people who feel even a basic google search is an invasion of privacy, the internet is right at our fingertips and I dont think its a massive overstep to do a quick search because youre curious about someones professional background. It is possible dig for publicly available information and be creepy, from reputation management standpoint. And I couldnt help thinking that my manager doesnt understand what I do was a bit of a strange complaint. I hang out in communities primarily of LGBT and neurodivergent people and it would be very bad for us to have that information made public. I finally understand why companies give away branded pens. I have an extremely common name. (To be clear, Im not saying that posting that level of identifiable personal information online isnt stupid or that coworkers should never Google each other or whatever. They organize a ton of social after-hours type events for on-site employees so getting something special made me feel like I had my own alternate way to celebrate even though Im not there. It still angers me irrationally because of how over the top it is. Not everything you read will be accurate. I am really sorry about that tragedy that you suffered, you have my sympathy. We heard Llama instagram and immediately tried to find it together. To HR (because theyre driving this ridiculous policy). #1 is fair game. Wow. Theres a move away from letting employers base job offers on previous salaries, and I make a point of not sharing mine with employers for that reason. They did not buy spouse a weekly lunch, but they did send us money to use on a schmancy holiday dinner ourselves! Fist day of current job one of my coworkers looks at me and says You dont have Facebook we googled you last week. Its kind of the norm now. Maybe its just me but Id find it pretty rude to ask them something like that, like Im questioning their ability to do their job (not the intention). Stop accepting a bad reality as just the way things are denounce it and dont participate in it. Verified answer. (Googling personal data for legitimate hiring purposes obviously falls under a different umbrella.). So reading LinkedIn profiles is fine because that is what the person *wants* people to know about them professionally. I could see reasons why someone might walk a person through a house thats not complete enough to be locked, or be referred to as a build rather than a house. Are you LGBTQ, Roscoe? I always Google new contacts so I can tailor my correspondence accordingly a new Teapot Buyer might have ten years in buying but not really know what a teapot is, or vice versa. Why would they bother? Its possible they just think management training is a good idea (it is, when its correctly targeted to skill level), or that theres a particular issue theyre trying to address. Think of the training as a couple light work break days where they (hopefully) provide lunch and networking. I can well imagine that their director really might not have had useful or thoughtful feedback for them in the appraisal, which is a shame and shouldnt happen. I have only googled some of my coworkers, it was always once I found out that they were hired and going to be coming in. Its all risk and no reward. I barely post anything online this isnt about me personally. I am so grateful to my international namesakes for being so obviously in totally different fields. a. aquatic b. volcanic c. land d. sea. And no, we didnt go to high school together. There actually was a letter here from a writer who went to Vegas on a work trip and won $ in the casino (on her own time, with her own $). But it would never occur to me to feel like Im missing out on pizza. However I would never confront the person that information I found. When your personal and professional circles overlap by 90%, the metric If youre curious about their professional background, fine and even potentially relevant. 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? Another reason you might google a coworker and the only one Ive done your coworker does something cool and public that you vaguely follow. Its one thing to go to a manager and say I could use more support, specifically with x and y or I know you arent familiar with the technicalities but z is really important to my team, can I explain our current challenges and get your feedback.its another thing to go to HR and say my manager doesnt know anything about what I do and isnt managing us (this could vary a lot by your level in an org and how technical your work).