Its the current year, everyone knows that if you publish it online, the internet never forgets. I think Engineer Girls experience of having someone not only find out this (incorrect) information but start rumors about it and then not let go of these rumors even when corrected, is an outlier. My new profession is teaching. LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Even if you were genuinely curious about those things. Its the nature of the internet and I dont think most people were prepared for that. Its a boring and odd thing to do, but statistically someones probably done it. I think thats acceptable, even if its for curiositys sake and not for any specific professional reason. When I have the blinds open I imagine that someone is looking into my window or at least able to. A few years after I graduated, they built a website and mined old hard drives to upload all articles from the previous decade to it. College should never "snoop" or look up information of another colleague when there is no business purpose. It sounded to me that some of the people are elsewhere on campus. If you purposely put something out into the public domain/internet you should expect people to look at it. Its all risk and no reward. So I am able to take care of everyone on campus. My favorite thing ever is that we get really nice heavy duty sample pens sent to us from a place that we used to buy company swag from for previous trade-shows [weve since found other items to hand out] and all my pens are personally branded *evil cackle*. It used to be that you had to write to the courthouse to get the information. It seems totally normal to me. In their quest to be helpful they autofill a lot of sites; now I just use several different emails for different types of sites. If you opt for gift cards or similar for them, make sure they actually have access to the stores! You may confuse the information with your co-worker, when it could be someone else. Think a former teapot painter managing the llama care department, and then not understanding that theres animal welfare guidelines for the care and keeping of llamas. First off, many people put things up in the old days before mega search engines. Of course, that but again thats more about what someone does with the information once they find it as opposed to whether they googled it in the first place. Even if you dont have any nefarious motives other than nosiness, youll really have to make sure you dont reveal what you know, or your coworkers will be creeped out. discuss their work, CVS Health, colleagues, or CVS Health products or services in personal social media interactions identify themselves by their real name and, must where relevant, title or role. Im particularly curious about people who are quite senior and how their career trajectory compares to mine. And I say this as someone who (1) doesnt google coworkers, and (2) wouldnt like coworkers to google me. My point was you cant flow on people to tell you everything youd want to know about them. ), I actually think thats a great analogy here: keeping track/actively noticing what someone is publicly doing is just a few steps beyond normal., Looking up a coworker on LinkedIn and seeing they got their MBA from Local U? But the distinction here isnt about whats prudent to do for your own privacy Im talking about the other person in the scenario, the person doing the boundary-pushing, and how far they can go before its creepy. As for finding ways to reward remote workers, I think some sort of gift card sounds like a great compromise. That is disgusting and wrong, but it isnt because I put it out there, and I cannot take it down. How deeply you search also matters if youre reading someones high school live journal or all the Yelp reviews theyve ever written, youre in too deep. Thats a big YIKES. However, one mainstay of most campus jobs here is the occasional departmental pizza party. Same thing as a society we determined that the sale of land, the lot lines of property, how much taxes people pay, should all be public info. But wow finding your address and using Google Maps to *look* it and the commenting about the trees!?!!?!! I dont have money, I dont have the extra time, so really theres not much point to it. Uh, no, Im just trying to do my job well. What the googler didnt know was that I also have a cousin (one year older) that has the same name. 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! Judging by the comments here, Im right that many people will in fact find it creepy if you go too far digging into public information. I would never say it out loud, and wouldnt hold it against the remote worker, but Id be a little annoyed if I got a couple slices of pizza to eat in a conference room or at my desk while a remote worker got a $20 GrubHub card. I have several good friends at work who Im able to discuss things with and their validation of my experiences helps a lot. Ive also found my cell number, even though I would never post that publicly either. A medical center employee snooped medical records of 1,309 patients over 15 months. And I know Ive been Googled by coworkers, because Im (mildly) internet famous through a hobby; everywhere Ive worked, people knew about this when I arrived, and it wasnt me that told them. Yes its not ideal but its also not unusual because in a company of very varied job functions a director wont have done all of them. If its done for your own sense of safety, or for legit work concerns, or if youre looking for an outside means of contact because one of yous leaving, and you want to make sure you can reach out for reference purposes later, or some other legit reason to find another path, you can go deeper. Basic Google search did bring that up. Thats light years away from googling someone and accidentally seeing public information. In other words, if you know me because of one part of my life, looking for information on that part of my life is fine. But just looking up every white or straight person seems just nosy. Honestly Im kind of jealous, Id way rather Starbucks than pizza I cant eat, lol. Ah, the fun times I had on rec.arts.sf.written (not to mention alt.wesleycrusher.die.die.die). In my state, marriage records, divorce records, and property ownership (including purchase price!) Ill look up clients, competitors, people in my industry. I dont get 1 either, but I think it might be for different reasons. If you dont think you can do that, then dont search. This Director knows how all things work. Working remotely has its own perks, so I dont think it has to be an every time thing, but being included makes you feel like part of the team/valued. I know enough for friendly chit-chat and thats it. He was fired soon after, but I dont know what influence I had vs. his other bad behavior. Mike Monteiro has told a story of people being added to a Facebook group without consent, implying or reveal the status of their sexuality. Get up to 15 in ExtraBucks Rewards on select summer essentials. It just is. Its not driving by their house. If youre the person writing the specification for a purchase, or the person choosing a vendor for it, your company may have rules about the type of goods and services you may accept as well as limits on how often you may accept them Caesars wife and all that. I know doctors cant take swag from pharmaceutical reps anymore for instance. (And many people at this employer were FB friends with each other. manager for reference moving forward. Please, please do it. 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. Crazy how the mind works, but makes total sense. Housemate isnt a professional relationship. Right before the offer is made would be a time to do it, to surface something such as what you found. But if you do a deep dive to figure out that every Monday they go to coffee shop xyz at 7am, then at 7:30am they do yoga at brz studio, then they come to work, after work they go to bar abc where they they meet their friends John, Jane, and Joe for trivia night that is similar to driving to a coworkers house. I dont think that I myself have ever done anything more than check someones LinkedIn page, but a quick little superficial Google search doesnt sound out of line to me. If a coworker shares "work" with someone and a colleague shares the duties of an office for which they were "chosen" together, a companion is the person one shares "bread" (in Latin, panis) with. I havent Googled any of my immediate coworkers, but I do follow them all on Twitter (which is about 50/50 personal/work), and I assume that everyone I might work with has done a fair amount of research to find out what kinds of teapots *I* like. OP5, I work for a pretty small charity, so its probably not a surprise to hear that when us remote folks miss something like free food, we dont get something even occasionally sent to make up for it. And THIS is why I no longer do social media. For consistency, this rule is in effect company wide, not just when working on government-related projects. I was really touched when my main office sent me my favorite candy bar and a gift card earlier in the year. If so, Im sorry. Also, for the people asking why not just talk to them, this is how I found out a co-worker supports white nationalists and a lot of other stuff that is literally dangerous to my family. Some people are going to be bold enough to ask or try to get a closer look, on the theory that its showing and therefore not meant to be private, and a lot more are going to find it incredibly rude to do anything but ignore it. It reminds me of the people who want to know results of personality tests so they can tailor how to interact with a person. Thanks. Its stupid and my boss looks at me funny every time I have to disclose a crappy pen, but its written in our handbook as a termination-worthy offense to accept literally anything (except food/drinks during a meeting) without approval. Mental issues? If you want something to truly be private putting it up online is not the way to go, just look at all the corporate and celeb data hacks. That information could have been used against her in numerous ways. If this person walked up while you searching them, would you minimize the browser to hide it? Its WAY different to check out someones LinkedIn profile before a conference call than to run a public records search so you can check out their landscaping. Alison mentions a GrubHub giftcard they deliver from dozens of different restaurants. If you search for my name plus my field, youll get my profile on my employers website, and my LinkedIn and thats about it. I have no idea what their value would be considered maybe 50 cents? Huh, I thought, I wonder if we went to high school together! Professional artists, actors, curators, directors, musicians, I can imagine professionals for whom that boundary is now very porous. I assume people do it to me but if I ever did it to a coworker it would make me feel dirty. But I have no way to stop that or what might be available if they do. Never again. can we talk about GOOD companies for a change? (She was older and didnt quite understand the internet.). Suggestion: dont do anything youd categorize as snooping. Whats your motivation? I was on the Internet 25 years ago, and everyone understood that what you put out in the public domain was going to be there forever. (Although technically legal in themselves. Having been slightly underpaid at my previous company, I have been taking courses on salary negotiation tactics. I also think another part of whats getting peoples hackles up is something I have seen with coworkers who have crossed the benign/creepy searching border: when they do an initial search and dont find anything juicy? There comes a point where digging deeply for information, even though its publicly available, crosses the line. Its always fun to see whos disgusted by the anchovies and whos grossed out by the olives. 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. Im not sure what the market is these days, but I used to do that with giftcards I didnt need about 10 or 15 years ago. 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. Google didnt exist yet, and the search engines of the time werent very good. And IIRC, Google will only suppress the original messages, not the replies. Curiosity isnt some weird unusual thing. No, you do not. I dont need to know a lot of details other than can they do their job?. I guess my general attitude feelings on humanity are summed up by the George Mallory quote when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everst? And if that doesnt turn up anything, its on to speculation and rumor spreading because nobody could be that boring, and there must be SOMETHING. Be mindful of your colleagues Helping promote mental health within your company takes intentionality. Ive been the target of bad googling. (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. End up in a new story? the gift of the nile colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs Technically, they dont actually even exist, according to facebook. I think AAM defined it nicely. @Librarian of SHIELD, I very much agree about the line, and how nebulous it is. No see thats creepy. You probably didnt do much research on drainage commissioner, but hey that name looks familiar. Theyre having a conversation in public where anybody can see and hear what theyre talking about. But dont let on that youve done so. Regarding My manager doesnt understand what I do. This might mean my manager doesnt understand my technical work. Anything that requires detective work will make people wonder about your motivations. My name is very common and also the same as a slightly famous person so if you just google my name you wont get much unless you add some additional information. I still have no idea what it was referencing! But even after getting the job it didnt seem appropriate for the very junior new hire to approach the CEO and be like hey man, tell me your life story. You could argue that its illogical of them, but I assume you dont want to make your coworkers uncomfortable, so even if you are totally okay with looking up the last ten years of someones social media presence, probably best to keep that under wraps. In my department, supervisors will treat off-siters to a coffee or other food gift card about once a quarter. Looking at publicly broadcast information is in no way the same as using binoculars to look inside someones private home. should I even consider interviewing somewhere else if Im happy with my job. Maybe the reason it feels like you are questioning their ability is because you kinda are. I do this for random things (not people) that have absolutely no bearing on my life or impact me in any way. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs . But is it still creepy to steer your shopping cart to the spot behind the paper towel display where you can eavesdrop on their conversation without them seeing that youre there? Yeah. Id have no problem telling a co-worker what I saw on their linkedin page. I dont think its true that lack of interest in other peoples personal lives, personal habits, or personal history indicates unsuitability for research or investigative careers. I have a google alert for my name. My husband loves them on his pizza however. The mortgage business for one cant accept anything valued over $50. Because of this, on a day-to-day level we function as a distributed team we rely primarily on a business text chat/collaboration platform, video calls, and a policy of keeping all our work in the magical cloud. Im intentional about keeping my off-site workers included in both regular work-related and social/sidebar conversations. Eavesdrop all youd likenever indicate that you listened, not then and not later. But also, Im not sure what I would do with that information if I did find something about them except maybe be cautious. At least make sure theres no minimum delivery requirement. For Reasons, my twitter handle is a particular name. Just because someone was nosey. The error lies in when you mention it to them (or to anybody, really, but especially to them). Im not blaming anyone for having an online presence. Its time for you to educate yourself. I wonder if it would work for you to have everyone Skype in for a 2 or 3pm meeting thats basically just you telling them how awesome they are, and then giving everyone everywhere the rest of the afternoon off, no PTO usage necessary. (And yes, Ive tried several times to point out the problem with this, but was unsuccessful.). the director focuses much more on the areas under them which they understand and enjoy, and the person in the OPs position can understandably feel neglected. Social media is like work communication times a millionif its something you wouldnt want people to see, then by God keep it offline. I barely post anything online this isnt about me personally. If its public, you are publicly broadcasting it to where billions of people can potentially see it. 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. There are still many people in this world using the internet for the first time today. Maybe when the Web became a commonly used tool, people began using it without understanding that, but just a reminder, putting something online is not like having the curtains open in your house and complaining that someone looked in the window, its like placing an ad in the newspaper and complaining that someone saw it. I assume they're doing the same to me. I am plenty curious, Ill find out about the coworker by talking to them and interacting with them. a colleague shares the name of the medication, a colleague decides to send an invitation. Still, at a minimum, I feel like I deserve her title (it could really jumpstart my career), if not her pay. Does that make it OK to talk to your co-workers about their divorces and home prices? I teach digital literacy and media, a lot of people dont know that. Fruit- Tomatoes are a fruit, so unless you never get tomato sauce on your pizza youre a liar. Because we all covet the prestigious swag that is a emory board with a staffing agency logo on it. I mean, they have to be better than pineapple! And while the majority work here on campus, a few are remote (people on study abroad, graduates who have continued to work for me, etc.). I also have identity theft issues (thanks, ex-husband number 1!) You had to opt in. Its blurry and we cant know where it is 100% of the time, but its there. Public records are now online. Also, one person Googled me, found out where I live and looked at Google pictures of the exterior of my house (nice trees!), which I thought was creepy. Thats literally why it exists. Im talking about someone randomly googling a coworker, finding their address and driving there when you have no reason to do so. Every few months well go get a pizza together just so we can get our preferred toppings. She didnt write on her blog that shed gotten arrested. 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. No, I dont think performing a background check is a violation. No. She didnt see herself as an ineffective manager, but that it was everyone elses issue. I believe its still there, but not as easily discoverable. But most people, its not. Back then it was way more private kind of hidden in its own little corner. Thats why you should google yourself to make sure theres nothing out there youd be uncomfortable with strangers knowing. (Yall have no way of knowing this, but Ill talk to anyone, anywhere). Besides, in my department, we usually want people who show at least a little bit of competence in social media use its part of our responsibility here and you can learn a lot about someones general social media literacy by checking their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In the new digital age there is new fear of someone trying to purposely smear your reputation, by creating a fake online profile of someone and posting all kinds of questionable and inappropriate content. We recently hired an HR gal that I was told was roughly my age and from my hometown, but wouldnt be starting for another couple weeks. 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. ), an interview of you, your LinkedIn, your Facebook Fan/Professional Page (because you set that up for the express purpose of sharing it with the public, unlike your person FB), and your Twitter & Instagram feeds (dittothose are expressly and explicitly public). Social media is not privacy. It also has the advantage of letting the employee choose the restaurant so they get something they will definitely enjoy. In my field everyone has a website. Colleagues should never "snoop" or look up information of another colleague when there is no business purpose. Yeah, I dont Google but I look up bosses, colleagues, and prospective employers on LinkedIn regularly. Thats purposeful. Its not either/or. The question everyone should be asking themselves instead is, When I google myself, what comes up? Google yourself and look. Snooping: sometimes its a grey area (except paid background checks, thats not ok). But you are kind of giving a blanket I can look at anything personal statment. This even extends down to my direct manager I dont expect her to know every button press I do in every aspect of my job, otherwise, shed be doing my job instead of managing me and my colleagues (who press different buttons!). If it doesn't at least have bin, pcn, and member ID, it's not your pharmacy insurance card (exept tricare) and you can save that card for the dentist/drs office.

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