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alain94040·

It gets even worse as you read further:

IT has searched his OneDrive, laptop, etc., and we can't find a single shred of code/documentation on these ideas

I'd say the company got what it deserves.

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Company has the right to do that pretty much anywhere assuming they own laptop, pay for onedrive etc.

Difference between what a company has the rights to do, and deliberately annoying an employee.

They have the right, certainly. But as an employee of a tech firm, if I ever learned that my employer had exercised that right on me, I'd hand in my resignation the same day.

Trust runs both ways, and once you blow that trust with your employee, you can't regain it.

How would you even know that the company searched your corporate OneDrive account?

In the USA they dont have to tell you when they do, so it might have happened already and you'd never know.

If you have a forced vacation period, your employer is auditing your emails/drives/devices. It's perfectly understandable that they search your work assets regularly (and randomly) as espionage happens. They probably mentioned they would do this at some point long ago.

Yadda yadda, “what if” argument. The context of the parent post is obviously not a “force majeure” situation but a more damning frisk, hoping to find enough to fire the man and sue him into bankruptcy... sleazy

That's very standard in USA, no laws preventing that and employees usually sign a contract allowing IT to do this without having to tell. I heard some companies even make emails disappear, e.g. if you wanna join Blind the sign up email might magically be deleted via some rule. GSuites supports and enables such policies to be implemented very easily.

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