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Does Someone at Work Treat You Badly?/How to Handle Brutal Bosses, Crazy Coworkers...and Anyone Else Who Drives You Nuts

Fighting Back: Overcoming Bullying in the Workplace

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Boss? 13 Types and How to Survive Them.

Privacy Invasion

A range of briefing materials to assist in reducing or eliminating unwarranted privacy invasions. (Resource suggestions encouraged.) Books related to "Privacy Invasion" are set out on  their own page.

Bad Boss/Coworkers. How to cope?

"I've gotten a job about a month ago and I'm still getting the hang of things, first off I was trained by a slacker drug addict (not kidding) and I'm trying really hard. Like I'm not good at sweeping for some reason. I try hard, but then I get yelled at that I'm to slow, and then I go faster and then I get yelled at that I didnt get enough. I've told my boss that im still learning and my trainer was incompetent. But she said that doesn't work on me. And my Coworkers basically treat me like I'm retarded. How do I Cope with this?"

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Bad bosses often lack training, resources, trust

"Wayne Hochwarter was 20 and working in a Chicago grocery store, where it seemed the bosses never lasted too long. A seed was planted. Now Hochwarter is the Florida State University's Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration, and he's made a career of studying the relationship between supervisor and employee: interpersonal dynamics."

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Coping with a Toxic Boss

"As a business and corporate consultant and psychotherapist, I’ve analyzed, worked with, and consulted with many difficult bosses over the years. In order to cope and deal with them, you need to know why they act the way they do and how best to deal with them, in order to earn their respect, get things accomplished, change negative situations to positive ones, and preserve your sanity."

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Big Brother is Reading Your E-Mail

"According to Reuters, a new study finds that companies snooping on employee e-mail is very common. The study reveals that close to half of big companies in the United States read and analyze employee e-mail. In another survey of 840 U. companies by the American Management Association, 60% said they use some type of software to monitor their employees’ incoming and outgoing e-mail."

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Workplace Privacy, A Thing of the Past?

"Anyone who has logged a few years in the business world -- whether working for a corporate behemoth like Boeing or a boutique firm -- probably realizes that what’s done on a work computer is anything but private. If you're still in the dark or are a virgin to corporate America, read carefully."

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Email privacy now a top concern for 19 out of 20 internet users

"How important is email privacy to your business? A new email privacy survey conducted by Relemail reveals it may be far more important than you expected. The survey presents some startling statistics about how email subscribers view privacy. Let's take a closer look at these statistics and reveal what it means for you and your organization."

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Navigating the privacy minefield

"As communications and surveillance methods evolve in the workplace, privacy is an area of growing contention. Privacy in the workplace can be an area of confusion and ambiguity, given the patchwork of applicable and often vague legislation."

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Deleting Files

"Pop quiz: So you'd had it up to here with your incompetent boss. You went and typed a letter listing 10 reasons he deserves to be exiled to one of those places "Survivor" is filmed and forced to eat rotting eggs and giant slimy worms."

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How To Access the Internet With Maximum Privacy:

"This guide discusses a way an employee or student can securely access the Internet while at work or school, and also how he/she can get around common firewall restrictions that prevent using programs that tap into the Internet."

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Amazon exec-style email snooping to be banned

"Four members of the US House of Representatives are hoping to prevent a repeat of a recent court decision acquitting a man accused of email interception."

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Full Anonymous Browsing: FindNot Internet Security Suite Allows You To Leave No Tracks Behind

"Anonymous proxy servers have become more and more abused and recently there has been a number of fake anonymous proxies services that have been setup FOR THE VERY PURPOSE OF capturing user names, passwords, credit card info and more. But more alternatives are springing up to fill the increasing demand for anonymous surfing."

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More people fired for e-mail misuse

"One quarter of polled companies have fired an employee for violating Internet policies."

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Companies Don't Grasp Legal Risks Of E-Mail, IM

"Most companies remain unprepared to deal with legal risks associated with employee e-mail and instant messaging, even though 1 in 5 companies has had employees' electronic messages subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation, a recent study released Tuesday showed."

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Secrets you can keep from your employer

"An employer's background check can dig up some pretty embarrassing dirt, but how much it will miss may be the biggest surprise. You can fudge on many things except your education and your most recent arrests."

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Your Email Up for Grabs?

"A federal appeals court recently made a ruling that allows just about anyone to read your email at any time, for any reason, without fear of lawsuit or prosecution."

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Email Privacy

"The emails we send on the Internet are wide open, not encrypted unless we encrypt them. They pause momentarily on their way from mail server to mail server to your inbox."

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Employee Email Rights And Relations

"The laws governing monitoring of employee e-mail and Internet use are nebulous at best, but experts agree that companies should, at the very least, notify workers that they may be monitored."

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Handing Email Privacy To Spammers

New websites help other parties violate the sanctity of your Inbox.

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Privacy In The Workplace

"Privacy in the workplace is a contradiction in terms, says Frederick Lane III in his new book, The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy (Amacom, 2003). Lane is an author, expert witness, professional speaker, and former attorney...Technology, according to Lane, allows companies to pry and probe into nearly every aspect of their employees' lives, including their habits, leisure-time activities, DMV records—even their genetic makeup."

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Is Your Boss Reading Your Email?

"Are you at all worried that your boss is reading your email and there's nothing, absolutely nothing in the law to keep him or her from doing it? Well, some state legislators are."

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Employers Try New Rules To Promote Email Etiquette

"The "cc" gridlock isn't just impeding worker productivity. It's also increasing management's legal risks, according to a study set for release this week. As a result, Internet consultants are advising companies to develop e-mail rulebooks, and recommending new technological tools, such as the color-coding of less-vital cc'd messages."

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Drawing the Line On Privacy At Work

"When does your workplace privacy meter start to buzz? Some employees resent employer-monitored e-mail. Others resent employer inquiries into their off-duty lives, random drug tests, surveillance cameras, dissemination of personal records or just the fact that their employer is watchful. There are many possible points of conflict between an employee's expectations of privacy and the employer's interest in managing its enterprise."

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Spyware As Enterprise Achilles Heel

"As IT departments battle trojans, viruses and worms, one particularly nasty critter is still finding myriad ways to slither onto enterprise PCs. Spyware, usually considered an annoyance of home users, has been showing up more often in the corporate world, and it is bad news for business users."

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Does Your Boss Have The Right To Spy On You?

"Workplace surveillance, otherwise known as “employee monitoring” (or just plain spying, for short), is more pervasive than you might care to realize. 78% of U.S. companies use some sort of mechanism to track worker behaviour and messaging, according to the American Management Association."

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Is Someone Watching Your Electronic Moves?

"Many people across the country, no matter how innocent, have a nagging feeling that somewhere at headquarters there is a virtual voyeur, some faceless figure in the tech department, completely capable of rifling through their every e-mail, computer file and Web search. At his company, that's Mr. Dahlberg."

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Monitoring Employees' Off-Duty Conduct

"Are you allowed to monitor what your employees do when they are not on the job? Here are the rules."

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Background Checks On Job Applicants And Employees

"Some employers routinely run background checks on applicants or current employees. But there are some legal limits on the information you can gather and use when making employment decisions."

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Monitoring Employee Email, Phone and Internet Use

A useful resource for bosses and staff: "Should you monitor your employees' workplace communications? Here, we explain the law and provide some practical tips to help you avoid turning into Big Brother."

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Privacy In The Workplace FAQ

"Frequently asked questions about how much privacy employees actually have in the workplace."

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Workplace Testing

"Learn the rules on medical exams, drug screens, lie detector tests and psychological profiles."

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Legal Actions Against Privacy Violations

"What you need to prove if you want to sue your employer for violating your privacy at work."

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Electronic Monitoring

"Privacy laws pertaining to telephones, voicemail, email and Internet use."

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Monitoring Employees' Online Communications

"Many employers monitor their employees' use of e-mail and Internet access in the workplace. However, both federal and state law limit an employer's ability to engage in such monitoring activity. Accordingly, employers should be familiar with the law in this area and should implement policies and practices that minimize the risk of lawsuits or enforcement actions."

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The Opportunities And Threats Created By E-mail

"Perhaps the most important thing to know about e-mail is that it can be recovered and used in litigation, just as paper documents can. Additionally, e-mail messages are generally imputed to employers, because they almost always have something on them that constitutes company letterhead. This means that employers can be liable for all of their employees’ e-mail messages, regardless of their purpose or topic."

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Invasion Of Privacy

"The "right to be let alone" protects certain private interests-such as family, medical, sexual, or other extremely personal matters-from unreasonable intrusion. Most states recognize a "right to privacy" which an employer may not invade."

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Whose E-mail Is It Anyway?

"Is someone else reading your e-mails? Your employer might be! Be careful what you say in e-mails. It could be used against you."

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Legal Actions Against Privacy Violations

"What you need to prove if you want to sue your employer for violating your privacy at work."

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Understanding On-line Sexual Harassment

"Harassment does not have to occur in a face-to-face confrontation between two people. Harassing behavior can occur over a telephone line, in writing, and, thanks to modern technology, over the Internet. The following is a primer on on-line harassment and steps that can be taken to avoid it."

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The 11 Commandments For Controlling Your E-mail

"Do you use e-mail effectively? What is the proper etiquette? Three years ago, the Harvard Management Communication Letter issued the ten commandments of e-mail. This article revisits the topic—and adds a new rule."

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The Walls Have Eyes

A Resource from the PBS: "If you're reading this at work, your boss may be reading right along with you. That's right, check up in that corner. Is that a camera? Are you sure? And don't forget about the computer network that allows your boss to read any file on your hard drive at any time and count your keystrokes per hour. He or she may even be tracking the websites you visit. People have been fired you know, for looking at the wrong websites while at work."

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Computers And E-mail On The Job: They're Watching

"Nearly every workplace in America today conducts some part of its business on computers, and many have become slavish to them. While hailed by many as aids to efficiency, computers have lent a new murkiness to workplace privacy laws."

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American Management Assc. 2003 Email Survey

"In 2003, more than half of U.S. companies engage in some form of e-mail monitoring of employees and enforce e-mail policies with discipline or other methods. In fact, 22% of companies have terminated an employee for e-mail infractions."

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Beware the Wandering Mouse

"Many of us log onto the Internet as easily as we pick up the telephone. But logging on for personal use at work, even for seemingly innocent activities, could get you into big trouble."

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Phones & Voicemail: Can Your Employer Spy On You

"The hottest area of workplace law these days involves electronic surveillance. Employees are increasingly questioning employers' rights to monitor their phone conversations and voicemail messages at work."

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Can Potential Employers Check Your Credit?

"This era of the computer is also the era of the ever-present personal credit rating. Credit bureaus - profit-making companies that gather and sell information about a person's credit history - have become a booming business. And the growing power and popularity of the computerized credit rating has found its way into the workplace, as well."

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Drug Testing In The Workplace: Does It Work?

"While the number of candidates who actually test positive for drugs has fallen, the number of prospective employees who cheat on their tests has risen. At the same time, recent studies have challenged the extent of productivity loss attributed to employee drug abuse."

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Yes, You Are Being Watched

"At home and in the office--and everywhere in between--you could be under legal digital surveillance."

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Privacy In America: Workplace Drug Testing

"Because there are few laws protecting our privacy in the workplace, millions of American workers are tested yearly – even though they aren't suspected of drug use. Employers have the right to expect workers not to be high or drunk on the job. But they shouldn't have the right to require employees to prove their innocence by taking a drug test."

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Privacy In America: Electronic Monitoring

"Employers love to keep tabs on their workers. And technology now makes it easy for companies to monitor you – from punch-in to quitting time. Employers can read you e-mail, look at your personal computer files and eavesdrop on your phone calls. They can film you with hidden video cameras not only in public areas, but in locker rooms and even restrooms." A Resource from the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Email Privacy In The Workplace - To What Extent?

"Does the law protect the privacy of e-mail communications made on a company’s internal e-mail system? Many people view use of their employer’s e-mail system as akin to making a telephone call, and thus feel the e-mail messages they send on their company’s internal system should be free from intrusion."

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