Slashdot Mirror
Conspiring Against Your Employer? Watch What You Email
Eric Giguere writes "In a story that has Bay Street (the Canadian equivalent of Wall Street) in a kerfuffle, the Globe and Mail writes that bank employees defecting to set up a rival investment firm didn't realize that their employer could easily track the emails and messages they sent and received, even when they're sent via a nominally-secure system like RIM's BlackBerry. In particular, the employees were assuming that the messages they sent via direct PIN-to-PIN communication (a PIN uniquely identifies a BlackBerry device) weren't trackable. But if they're on the device, they're available to the employer to see. The employees may also have thought that PIN-to-PIN messages are encrypted, though RIM has always said that they're not -- it's only the connection to the corporate email server that is secure. A lot of damning information pulled from those emails and messages has made its way into a lawsuit."
Did anyone notice that in one of the quoted emails, they had a list of starting salaries and starting shares for the new company?
There were 8 employees of this new company -- 7 men, 1 woman. All were labeled "Partner."
There were 7 people with salaries of $150,000, and 1 person with a salary of $60,000. Guess who was who.
Without knowing more of the specifics of each person's qualification, I find an interesting that another "Partner" has just 1/40th of the shares of many of the partners and just over 1/3rd the salary.
Gender discrimination is alive and well in Canada.
Check out page 2 of the article, where one of the incriminating emails lists projected salaries and stock options for each of the "partners" in the new company.
They all have the position "partner", but Andrea Horan gets a 60K salary and 50 units while the others all get 150K and from 400 - 4000 units.
Ouch. I'll bet she was pleased to read that in the news.
She's also the only woman on the list... not to jump to conclusions w/o knowing the details, but double-ouch.
What in the world is a USian? I've never heard anybody call themselves that... Is that like "United Kingdomer?" Or "UAEian?"
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin