If you leave a company, can the boss keep your old email address active and read your emails

[MidwestTransplant]

that continue coming in?

[boomboom]

1. yes, i would assume that to be correct

[Kagemusha]

2. Uh if it's a company e-mail address, why couldn't he?

Just musing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Of course - the boss owns it. You only used it while the boss "lent" it to you.

Good reason not to do anything personal on the company email.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Probably

They can even keep and read your emails while you're employed there - they own the email address. If they are classy, they'll return emails to the sender with a message stating how to reach you.

[book_worm]

5. He could if he wanted to

[shraby]

6. Just let everyone you know that you no longer

will be getting mail at that addres and give them your new addy.

[lonestarnot]

7. Your emails from employment are always subject to da bosses pleasure or displeasure, whateva.

[mcscajun]

8. Yes, and that's one more argument for not getting personal e-mails

at your work address.

Keep your private life at home, and what happens on your work e-mail won't matter later on.

[Blue-Jay]

9. Can, do, and should.

Two things at play here:

1) Never use your work email for anything but work. It's rude and might get you busted. Use Gmail or anything else.
2) If you get some work-related emails after you leave, your boss should be able to see them and reply.

[Buzz Clik]

10. But the boss gets to read it second. The FBI reads it first.

[MidwestTransplant]

13. Best answer award!

[Buzz Clik]

18. It is certainly true at my place of work.

I rub shoulders with our IT guys all the time, and one day one of them told me that the FBI asked for our "cooperation" in putting the hardware in place to monitor every bit of electronic information that passed in and out of the place. The got everything they wanted without so much as a squeak of protest.

Hell, they rolled over for RIAA, why not the Feds?

[KeepItReal]

16. Don't forget to put the folks in I.T. *before* the boss... they control email access at work.

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[mondo joe]

11. Certainly. Why wouldn't they? They do actually own the email address.

It's really not a good idea to use work email for personal use.

[AZBlue]

12. Your boss can read your e-mail while you're still with the company.

The e-mail doesn't belong to you - it belongs to the company.

[-..__...]

14. No law preventing him from doing that.

I have an email address at my place of employment... I have never used it, have never checked it (I have no interest in even knowing how to check it). I have never given my address out to anyone because quite honestly, I forget what it is. :smoke:

[w4rma]

15. Yes. (nt)

[trixie]

17. Your work email is for work and belongs to the company

Never use your work email for anything but work this excludes work gossip. Just like if you leave a job and you get mail, it belongs to the organization.

[zulchzulu]

19. Yes. If it's a company email address...yes. But, if you're smart...

...you'll either delete the email address, change the password or get IT to disable the email account prior to leaving.

A company email address is company property. Consider it so.

[MiniMe]

20. They can read your email while you are still employed

Never forget that. Be very careful about what you send on company email, it can come back and bite you in the butt. And remember, you can delete it from your email account, but it is archived on tape.

[KG]

21. one would assume so. which is why i don't use co. email for personal stuff.

[TlalocW]

22. Yep - I handle cases like this all the time

For our various companies whose website and email we host. A person leaves a position at one of the companies, and we normally turn that email into a forward that goes to some other employee's address because clients that the former employer worked with may not know about his/her leaving, and that could slow down their business.

TlalocW

[tech3149]

23. Since I only used my company email for company business, I would hope.

Actually, when I left I set up my voice mail and email to forward to the most knowledgeable person still there. Unfortunately, most of them followed me out the door. It sucks to work for idiots, that's why I don't work anymore.

edit: finger glitch

[cynatnite]

24. At an office I temped at all the 'puters were networked...

it was set up so they could read our emails if they wanted to. I have no idea if they ever did.

[leftofthedial]

25. your boss owns your work email

every bit of it

and can do anything he/she wants forever

[silverojo]

26. Use web-based e-mail for personal correspondence

That way, you won't have to worry. ;)