As a government employee they are obligated to report a breach of information regardless of whether they like the employee they are reporting or hate their guts. A terse to non-existent IT policy or one that's full of unexplained jargon can work against a company. If Jane knows, then it cant be too bad.. If you had stayed, they would never have trusted you again. It may be that the decision is made and it is just a matter of time before you are gone. So, thats to say that I *completely* get the idea that at some point, you get to a point where you just really really need to share. This x 1000 to the comment by ENFP in Texas. I think people are reading defensiveness from the qualifiers probably and suppose. I can sympathize that this is still very raw for OP and perspective will only come with more time. as a manager, should I not wear a childless shirt in my off-hours? Sending work-related information to personal email account: a fast For a market where most of this stuff lives in a big way for one season, and then only has some ongoing staying power? Accidental disclosure is the unintentional release or sharing of sensitive information. 5 Ways Your Emails Could Breach GDPR - TowerWatch Tech I understand that the breach was very bad and that the organization needed to take some disciplinary action, but it seems to me that firing an employee who fessed up to something like this to a senior coworker sends the message: If you mess up bad enough, dont tell anyone. You can bounce back! I think its fair for you to be upset that you didnt have another chance, but also understandable that your employer felt it couldnt give you one. Had OP not made the initial mistake and then compounded it by telling the coworker, shed still be employed. Even if healthcare providers and business associates are compliant to HIPAA Standards, there is always a possibility of unintentional or accidental disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI). I felt as defensive and upset as you. If you told, you breached confidentiality, no matter what the other people did. But it absolutely does not mitigate it AT ALL. If you can trust someone, you can trust them, journalist or not. Ramp up your privacy settings across all accounts. They can only control what their employees do, and thats why they have those rules, and not much leeway for people who dont adhere to them. Honest Mistake: Have You Ever Shared Sensitive Data to the Wrong Person? And if weve learned anything from this letter, its that information thats supposed to be kept secret isnt always. Having said that, as a hiring manager, if you were able to talk to me about how this one-time error in judgment caused a deep shift in thinking and was a critical pivot point in your professional development I would hear you out. A senior UK diplomat has resigned over the matter. And the young comment. Of course, its your fault but it is only human to be annoyed with someone, especially someone who seemed to completely misrepresent what happened. As this was almost the entirety of your job they really couldnt keep you around. An employer of mine got a FOIA request where they asked for every email wed sent to anyone from any regulatory agency. In the US, sexual harassment wont merit a police response. Oh, so LW cant keep a secret from her reporter friend or her coworker, but were ragging on the coworker for not keeping LWs secret? LW best of luck! Both the affected parties were amazing clients who prided themselves on solid security practices. I get why maintaining confidentiality is important, and I understand why the OP was wrong in this particular situation, but balance is also needed. Getting fired sucks. I used to be a journalist, I have lots of friends who are journalists and I never tell them anything that I shouldnt, even the ones I really trust. Dang! Unfortunately these days a lot of the regulators are crooked and will never do anything about problems without a lot of public pressure (and sometimes not even then). Sometimes the news is a dreadful burden to bear (staff reductions of people you know, elimination of services you think are important) and sometimes the news is exciting, you have the inside scoop and cant wait to share it. Once youve actually done the thing, its out there. Embargoes and off-the-record information are for journalists who are actually covering a story and in most cases that information can be shared in the newsroom (by saying a source told me off record if confidentiality is really important) and acted upon (you can start to write out a story to be ready when the embargo lifts, or call work to corroborate the off-the-record with on background or on record sources). Confidential Info Accidentally Sent to a Large Distribution List How do I politely turn down the call for an interview by another employer? No checking out salary information permitted! Second coworker only was put on an improvement plan. I love telling people things! In sending that information to your own mailbox, you transmitted the data to a number of machines, any number of which could be intercepting the data for reading, and many do albeit for legit purposes of scanning for advertising relevant stuff or scanning viruses. +1 on the choice of language and framing. We've added a "Necessary cookies only" option to the cookie consent popup. I was dismissed for a breach of confidentiality. I remember the line of people walked out the door for looking at OJ Simpsons records when he was arrested. Does your company know she could have called the police? I arrived in 69. ugh, no if you cant tell them the actual news, dont tease it. What happens if an email is sent to the wrong person? : r/gdpr - Reddit And that is a hard pill to swallow, for sure. Im still pretty upset that I had no second chance, but I suppose I just lost their trust. Thank you. She broke a very real and important rule. NEVER by email unless explicitly given the go-ahead). Instead, the employees found out by reading the news instead, which hurts morale. I am now going to assume that its exactly that. You are of course welcome to your feelings, we all feel what we feel, but it sounds like your thoughts and beliefs havent settled to the fact that **your feelings are dead wrong**. A good . Heck, at my agency were cautioned to not use work email on our personal devices (unless were management or its an emergency) because records requests could potentially get our personal devices as well. Im going to go see how they reviewed it.). And theres a difference between feeling (sensation) and feeling (conclusion drawn from integrating sensations and information). But from there you can talk about what you learned from the experience and how this makes you a better employee/candidate now. If anyone required training to answer FALSE! Is anyone else dying to know what the information was? No matter how small the company, they trust you to safeguard the data, and you didnt do that. Or, heck, for all I know he didnt actually work on anything that interesting. Sure, its not going to be easy, but being honest and upfront will serve them a whole lot better than a potential employer finding out from a different source (and its not unlikely that they will find out). Those who work in circumstances that require them learn how to filter through multiple layers of risk when they get to a point where they come up against that need to share. You are disappointed you didnt get a second chance. Yep, I think its worth LW remembering that while she knew shed never leak anything again, her boss and co-workers dont. I would have been fired if I did any one of the things OP did when I worked for the feds (e.g., using Slack, speaking to a journalist without authorization even if they were a long-time friend, disclosing soon-to-be-public information before it was publicly available). The details dont really matter. Possible scripting adjustment: I mistakenly shared some non-public information with a friend outside the agency before it was officially released to the public. You learned, BOY HOWDY did you learn, and now you dont mess around not even gossiping with co-workers or any of those other little ways that could instill doubt in your discretion. Now I just leave and cry and deal with the long-term consequences, like never moving up. You believe your friend is trustworthy but, wow, the optics of sharing with a friend who is a journalist are really bad, and . End of story. Another point: you didnt just accidently tell about it. If I was that coworker, Id have to think shed continue to go around blabbing about this, and there is No Way I could just sit on it until *I* got called on the carpet. LW, we are all human. My father worked on defense contracts for a large portion of his professional career. Cut to a couple hours later, and Im called into my bosss office because she has heard that I leaked this information to a SLACK CHANNEL FULL OF JOURNALISTS. But I dont think it helps OP to feed a narrative that prevents OP from owning the situation going forward. It shouldnt happen but Id understand if it did. Its to LWs friends credit that she didnt pass on the info to a journalistic colleague who DOES work in that area; its not to LWs credit. Better to have a 30% chance than a 0% chance. Don't be me, is what I'm saying I guess! Yep, we regularly are reminded about FERPA requirements (academia) and staff members have gotten in hot water for not promptly picking up student transcripts from the printer (for instance). It will also help you to not repeat the mistake in the future. One piece of information I learned (that has since been announced publicly, but hadnt been at the time) was SO EXCITING that in a weak moment, I texted one friend about it in celebration. Me too. how else could you have met that need?) And it could be part of the reason why the story was a bit incoherent, too she went from sort of uncomfortable to really, really uncomfortable. The letter writer came here and owned up to what she did and said she knows now it was her fault what do you want her to do, throw herself on a sword? Im glad youve learned from your mistake, and I really hope you take this experience to heart as you continue your communications career. If she really understood or valued confidentiality, she would not be trying to convince us of how victimless this was. The focus moving forward should be about realizing how serious a problem it was, how badly you feel about it, and how youre committed to not making the same mistake again. how do I explain being fired for sharing confidential info with a This comment comes across as quite clueless I work for a government entity where nonpublic information often affects peoples day-to-day lives and pocketbooks and people put a lot of money (lobbying) into knowing whats happening. Employees who violate their companies' email policies can face penalties ranging from disciplinary action to termination. The first person needs to understand that most of the time, you arent entitled to negotiate a yes, because the answer is no. Can you get fired for using work email for personal use? If yes, that is relevant to the question. They might try to use silence to get you to say more. From there they have 72 hours to resolve the situation. It would have been nice for her to warn you that she was going to report it, or even given you a chance to do it yourself so it would have gone over a bit better. And thats still very unrealistic / way off-base, if OP truly gets why this was a slam-dunk decision, in that particular circumstance.
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