I personally have 3 friends who were all fired from a big five consulting firm for reasons directly related to Instant Messages. They were unsatisfied with their project and having what they thought was a private conversation, making some pretty explicit jokes about their bosses. Little did they know, their bosses were listening. They are unsure if they were being monitored, or if the bosses had people sneek on to their computers at night and read their log files (one or two of them realized, after it was too late, that they had their logging turned on). Either way, it was a pretty crummy thing to do, especially when the company was doing layoffs with severance, they found a reason to fire these guys for cause and give them no severance. They have all moved on, and since found less stressfull, higher paying jobs. But you better believe that none of them use IM at work anymore...
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I personally have 3 friends who were all fired from a big five consulting firm for reasons directly related to Instant Messages. They were unsatisfied with their project and having what they thought was a private conversation, making some pretty explicit jokes about their bosses. Little did they know, their bosses were listening. They are unsure if they were being monitored, or if the bosses had people sneek on to their computers at night and read their log files (one or two of them realized, after it was too late, that they had their logging turned on). Either way, it was a pretty crummy thing to do, especially when the company was doing layoffs with severance, they found a reason to fire these guys for cause and give them no severance. They have all moved on, and since found less stressfull, higher paying jobs. But you better believe that none of them use IM at work anymore...