Inadvertent email cc (GDPR)
Discussion
After a minor indiscretion at work - level of not filling up the stapler after using it - I have received a particular arsey and low grade threatening email from a clerk in an office which has been copied to my boss who could not be less bothered and weirdly to somebody completely random outside of our organisation
If the email was polite eg please fill up the stapler next time I wouldnt be bothered however Im hacked off at the implied consequence which would have the potential to upset somebody a lot more junior. The email felt a bit 'copy and paste' so I suspect it is this persons usual tone and why I feel as though they deserve a bit of low grade threat and intimidation in return
In short then what in particular bits of IT governance have been transgressed? I imagine something in GDPR but Im not an expert
Oh, and Im not taking him to court - just wish to throw an email back asking for a grovelling apology for sharing my email address and "stapler" incident with a completely random member of the public
Cheers
MBVitoria said:
I've read that three times and still not clear on precisely what has happened.
If it's something about your work email address being disclosed to someone outside the organisation, it's really not going to go anywhere so I would suggest you just drop it and move on.
It's obviously not going anywhere and this is a massive waste of time objectively but on the other hand it's great fun to wind up the kind of pathetic people who report people for things like this so I'd point out the issue isn't that the email address has been disclosed, but that a "reprimand" for want of a better way of putting it has.If it's something about your work email address being disclosed to someone outside the organisation, it's really not going to go anywhere so I would suggest you just drop it and move on.
Has the potential though of causing issues if it does blow up cause no one senior will want to deal with it (and OP can't be *that* senior if he can't tell this clerk to wind his neck in, I know this cause I'm not CEO but senior enough that if anyone sent an email like this to me I would either ignore it or literally tell them to f
k off and would be absolutely fine) and so may also want to go after OP for the orignal stapler offence as well. So I don't suggest CCing in the data controller. Best solution would be to write a very sarky response and get the boss to email it on OP's behalf, CC'd to the clerk's boss for lulz.
Was the random her union rep or external HR contact?
No she shouldn't send your email to external contacts without asking, that's poor form not sure it falls under GDPR however if it's a company email.
If you're in a role where yours and your bosses emails shouldn't really be used by the public, e.g. local planning etc. then it's especially poor form to share these names and roles with the public as they'll now contact you incessantly.
I'd imagine your boss will be more pissed by this email, what did they say?
No she shouldn't send your email to external contacts without asking, that's poor form not sure it falls under GDPR however if it's a company email.
If you're in a role where yours and your bosses emails shouldn't really be used by the public, e.g. local planning etc. then it's especially poor form to share these names and roles with the public as they'll now contact you incessantly.
I'd imagine your boss will be more pissed by this email, what did they say?
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