How are they getting this information? Assuming usage of https they should only be aware of the IP. Do they keep list of IPs which belong to job seeking sites?
Is that enough evidence?
Is that enough evidence?
The company that fired my wife was a small company.
It's also quite odd if the company is small, like they have dedicated people to scan for information like that?
I was a little surprised. I think they were so small (<20 people) that they outsource the security and IT work.
Honestly I still don't understand exactly how they came to this conclusion and let her go like that? Was she given a chance to defend herself? Like you could easily say that you were helping your friend to look for a job or clicked on some link sent by someone else?
It seems really ridiculous to me to scan for this information and then fire someone based on that.
I'm really very liberal about what I do on my work computer, I just couldn't fathom they would fire me over something like that.
I think she admitted it when confronted.
I work for a large company and their policy is that you should not be using it for personal stuff. They use this as an excuse to fire people they want to get rid of.
It doesn't seem a strong reason enough to fire where I am from (European country). In the law there are examples of reasons one could fire over and they all seem a lot worse than that. For example if you are drunk in the workplace, but even then employer must warn you first, so it seems like once it is okay.
Alcoholism is covered here too. The employer must offer to get you help the first time since it is a medical condition (disability).