Sunday, November 16, 2008

Employee Rights

1.) The main point of this article is to inform the readers of how Wal-Mart and Target spy on, discriminate, target, and unfairly accuse, antagonize, and disrespect their employees. 

2.) One type of supporting detail the author used was including many examples of people who had been employed by these two major companies, & their side of the story, regarding how they were attacked, discriminated against, etc. The author also tells us the history of both companies, & how they have always had problems with these sorts of accusations. 

3.) I have definitely observed surveillance or unfair treatment in the work place. At my old job, at an office, I was a secretary, and have seen my superior, the office manager, look through employees e-mails and bloggers without asking permission, simply to see what they were doing and if there was anything going on that they wouldn't be 'proud of.' I was so taken aback and felt so terrible that this was going on as soon as I found out about it. I reminded myself never to open up anything of mine during office hours, for fear of it being pulled up again when I wasn't in the office. Thankfully, I no longer work there, and do not have to worry my privacy being broken into ever again. 

5 comments:

Professor Love said...

Diana, believe it or not, the employer has the right to check on emails of their employees. When you are at work, they own the computers that you use. Not a good idea to put something out there if you don't want to share it!!

Karla said...

omg thats horrible.. im glad you dont work there anymore. employeers suck just cause they have more seniority then others doesnt make it right to spy on others.

Ahmed said...

your work experience sounds pretty awful.

jasvinder said...

I can't believe that the company has the right to check your phone and email.

Irwin said...

wow, you definetly experienced the bad side of employees right. I still cant believe they have the right to checck people's email.