Isn't all discipline selective? Upper levels of management don't come under the same scrutiny and rules that the lower levels are required to live under. The VPs won't be fired for chatting with their kids at college using IM though they would drop one of their underlings in a heartbeat for the same thing.
I understand what you are saying but does your HR and Legal agree with the "occasional use" stance? My client's HR and Legal folks understood that the people were going to use the systems personally but they required the "absolutely no personal use" clauses just so they did have a tool available for selective use. Be sure that you somehow define "occasional use", as it will be difficult to terminate for just cause if you have not. It is easy to define "never" and show violation. The employee probably has other things stacked against them at that point anyway but your AUP won't be one of the supports for the company's case, which is just why they want an AUP in the first place. Tim Heagarty MCSE, MCP+I "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't." Work: (928) 636-0489 Cell: (928) 533-9690 -----Original Message----- From: Moeckel, Sharon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:40 PM To: Tim Heagarty; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: e-mail policies My company's current policy is the same. I am writing one that would allow occasional use. Otherwise, they do not enforce it until they want to get rid of someone - and IMHO that is selective discipline. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Heagarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: e-mail policies The email policies that I have written don't have any leeway for personal communications. Any and all messages contained within the system are the property of the company and may be read by an administrator in the normal course of their duties. Absolutely no email of a personal nature should ever be transmitted using the corporate email system. Now, we all know that personal email is going to be transmitted, and by some employees that's all that will EVER get transmitted. But, the statement is out there, the employee had to sign it and if they ignore it and put their personal information through our system, and they will, then the decision is theirs and not from the company. Tim Heagarty MCSE, MCP+I "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't." Work: (928) 636-0489 Cell: (928) 533-9690 -----Original Message----- From: pablo gietz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: e-mail policies Dear gurus We are defining policies for the use of corporate e-mail, I have doubts about privacy of messages sent by employees. Since the e-mail system is intended for business use, we need to prevent sensitive information disclosure. If we respect the privacy , how can discover infidelity employee? What is your opinion or the standard in this cases? What is the companies approach? Thanks a lot. -- Pablo A. C. Gietz Jefe de Seguridad Inform�tica Nuevo Banco de Entre R�os S.A. Te.: 0343 - 4201351
