Legal Advice Regarding Privacy (long)
Unimportant background imformation:
My boss is a complete dirtbag. I feel like I am dealing with a child at times beacsue he is so embarrassing. He has no social skills, I can't stand him. On Thursday, one of our clients (who I happen to have become very close with in the last year) stopped by the office. This is the first time I had ever met him. My manager, however, met him numerous times, but has not seen him since I have worked at my company which will be coming up on four years.
When this gentleman arrived, my manager, the jerk, introduces me to him and quickly adds, 'Wow, Fred, you have put on so much weight...(holds hand in front of his own stomach symbolizing that he has a big stomach) and waht happened? You lost all of your hair...I don't know, what happened to you?'..I was mortified. I wanted to crawl under a rock. Fred, obviously embarrassed and speechless, says, 'Thanks David what a nice thing to say to your customer...'...I, trying to lighten the situation, throw in, 'It's from all of the stress he gets dealing with our NJ office...'. Fred laughs it off. David continues..., 'No really, they say it's a sign of hapiness, prosperity...letting yourself go'. This guy just doesn't know when to quit, does he?
I am totally mortified, my client leaves and I sit there staring at my friend that works behind me...I said did you hear what he just said to him (meaning Fred)?...' Yep...
About 15 minutes later, my manager calls me. You should have seen him 4 years ago. So fit, full head of hair. Very attractive, HE looks awful. I don't know what happened to him. He looks terrible. I start to reprimand him...I am like a) he has feelings...2) He's a client 3) you embarrassed him 4) That was just plain RUDE! David's like he's a guy, he can take it. I said no, he's a human being and that wasn't very nice! David was like, you are right...I'm sorry, but he still looks terrible. ... ***hole!
5 minutes later, Fred calls. He is like do you have a minute? I say yeah...is David around? I say let me take this in the breakroom...He continues to ask me what kind of moron am I working for, he is so embarrassed...he feels bad that I am stuck there... And I know this man very welll he is very sensitive about himself.. 10 minutes in to the conversation, Fred goes, 'Let me go before I get a ticket...' I hear CLICK~someone was listening on another extension!! I knew it was probably David, so I run out of teh breakroom and he is dialing the phone. I said did you just pick up my call, he said no...Monday I had a few calls like that.
Other people started experiencing teh same thing. I find out that David has teh capability to conference in on ANY Call at ANY point in the conversation. I have been getting these all day long now. ANd then otehr people started noticing it. The last straw was today, i recieved a call on my cell at 5.00. I called back form te hoffice becasue I got stuck working late. about 10 minutes in to a very boring conversation, I hear CLICK and I see David hanging up his phone~his office is directly behind my desk... That SOB has been listening in to all of our conversations!
Now, even though it's a compnay phone, without notifying us that he is doing that, is that illegal? I need to know beacsue I already put a call in to my NJ office to complain, but I am jsut so upset. What happens if I was talking to my Dr or something?? This is so unfair.
My boss is a complete dirtbag. I feel like I am dealing with a child at times beacsue he is so embarrassing. He has no social skills, I can't stand him. On Thursday, one of our clients (who I happen to have become very close with in the last year) stopped by the office. This is the first time I had ever met him. My manager, however, met him numerous times, but has not seen him since I have worked at my company which will be coming up on four years.
When this gentleman arrived, my manager, the jerk, introduces me to him and quickly adds, 'Wow, Fred, you have put on so much weight...(holds hand in front of his own stomach symbolizing that he has a big stomach) and waht happened? You lost all of your hair...I don't know, what happened to you?'..I was mortified. I wanted to crawl under a rock. Fred, obviously embarrassed and speechless, says, 'Thanks David what a nice thing to say to your customer...'...I, trying to lighten the situation, throw in, 'It's from all of the stress he gets dealing with our NJ office...'. Fred laughs it off. David continues..., 'No really, they say it's a sign of hapiness, prosperity...letting yourself go'. This guy just doesn't know when to quit, does he?
I am totally mortified, my client leaves and I sit there staring at my friend that works behind me...I said did you hear what he just said to him (meaning Fred)?...' Yep...
About 15 minutes later, my manager calls me. You should have seen him 4 years ago. So fit, full head of hair. Very attractive, HE looks awful. I don't know what happened to him. He looks terrible. I start to reprimand him...I am like a) he has feelings...2) He's a client 3) you embarrassed him 4) That was just plain RUDE! David's like he's a guy, he can take it. I said no, he's a human being and that wasn't very nice! David was like, you are right...I'm sorry, but he still looks terrible. ... ***hole!
5 minutes later, Fred calls. He is like do you have a minute? I say yeah...is David around? I say let me take this in the breakroom...He continues to ask me what kind of moron am I working for, he is so embarrassed...he feels bad that I am stuck there... And I know this man very welll he is very sensitive about himself.. 10 minutes in to the conversation, Fred goes, 'Let me go before I get a ticket...' I hear CLICK~someone was listening on another extension!! I knew it was probably David, so I run out of teh breakroom and he is dialing the phone. I said did you just pick up my call, he said no...Monday I had a few calls like that.
Other people started experiencing teh same thing. I find out that David has teh capability to conference in on ANY Call at ANY point in the conversation. I have been getting these all day long now. ANd then otehr people started noticing it. The last straw was today, i recieved a call on my cell at 5.00. I called back form te hoffice becasue I got stuck working late. about 10 minutes in to a very boring conversation, I hear CLICK and I see David hanging up his phone~his office is directly behind my desk... That SOB has been listening in to all of our conversations!
Now, even though it's a compnay phone, without notifying us that he is doing that, is that illegal? I need to know beacsue I already put a call in to my NJ office to complain, but I am jsut so upset. What happens if I was talking to my Dr or something?? This is so unfair.
