| Exposed private chat messages... It was a small 30 person company with an overbearing founder. We ran a chat program called Pandion to allow non-IT staff to quickly ask each other work questions. The boss had already asked us in IT to set up journaling in Outlook so he was getting a copy of every email sent and received by his staff. Next he turned his attention to Pandion and I was tasked with setting up a regular report containing all chat messages that were logged on the server. I knew everyone in the company personally and didn't care to read their private messages...but the boss wanted to get a copy right away before it was announced to staff. So I send a copy to him, containing the last few days of messages that had been sent. Of course a couple of staff were dating. Apparently Glen* and Amy* used Pandion for personal messages to each other. I'm sitting with the boss explaining how the staff don't know their messages are being reported on and we can start publishing the report after the next team meeting, but the boss wanted none of that... So we start going through it together. One of the first messages is from Glen telling Amy that she's as tight as the seal on his lunchbox. The boss had a good sense of humor and we both pissed ourselves laughing, but it still goes against my values. |