Privacy in the workplace

[Robert B. Edwardsen]

Give and the required information and then change it.

Rob Edwardsen

michael wathen wrote:

> My supervisor an assistant dean for our school has formally requested
> that everyone in her charge deliver to her by a certain date their
> respective email usernames and passwords.  She says they will be kept in
> a secure place and used only in the event of an emergency.  I responded
> in email saying that I was uncomfortable giving this information to
> anyone.  I stated that I use email for work, family, and an education
> degree.  If an emergency came about then I suggested that she contact
> the administrator of email services for the university with a request
> for the information.  She is insisting that I must comply with her
> wishes and says that everything that comes through the server at the
> university is univeristy property.
>
> I have to admit I am stunned!  What do you guys think.