Comments on: Wal-Mart and Workplace Privacy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:25:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: yvonne powell http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-104733 yvonne powell Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:32:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/#comment-104733 my sister works at a wall mart. information from her medical file has become general knowledge through out the store. the manerger is of no help in this matter. it has to stop but we do not know where to begin. she is a very sensitive young lady and the comments to her med. problem is making her extremely unhappy. please someone tell us how to file a complaint and to whom. dont suggest the manerger or anyone who works in this particular store. it will not help my sister works at a wall mart. information from her medical file has become general knowledge through out the store. the manerger is of no help in this matter. it has to stop but we do not know where to begin. she is a very sensitive young lady and the comments to her med. problem is making her extremely unhappy. please someone tell us how to file a complaint and to whom. dont suggest the manerger or anyone who works in this particular store. it will not help

]]> By: Rainy Lynn http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-34761 Rainy Lynn Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:55:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/#comment-34761 Hi... Im not sure if I totally agree with this whole Fraternization stuff here...I think its plainly unfair and wrong to keep people apart. Why do I say this? because I was forced to leave the SCenter I was in if I wanted for OUR relationship to go further even though he is married and I have my BF. But to us sooo what...we mite of hung out at work when neither one of us was busy (I was a f-end cashier and he is one of the Co-mngrs). YES, we both were warned by the store manager 2xs within a 2 month period....that if it didnt stop then we both would get fired. We were told if we both truly care for one another then we will keep the relationship as a working relationship only (little did the store mngr know), but I was told if we wanted to have this REAL RELATIONSHIP then Id have to transfer to another WMs. so I did and the both of us have gotten even closer to each other....that I will visit him when I have free time. Hi…

Im not sure if I totally agree with this whole Fraternization stuff here…I think its plainly unfair and wrong to keep people apart.

Why do I say this? because I was forced to leave the SCenter I was in if I wanted for OUR relationship to go further even though he is married and I have my BF. But to us sooo what…we mite of hung out at work when neither one of us was busy (I was a f-end cashier and he is one of the Co-mngrs).

YES, we both were warned by the store manager 2xs within a 2 month period….that if it didnt stop then we both would get fired. We were told if we both truly care for one another then we will keep the relationship as a working relationship only (little did the store mngr know), but I was told if we wanted to have this REAL RELATIONSHIP then Id have to transfer to another WMs. so I did and the both of us have gotten even closer to each other….that I will visit him when I have free time.

]]> By: William McGeveran http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-6781 William McGeveran Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:23:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/#comment-6781 Thanks, L. It did come up in class, though you stated it especially well here. I agree completely that making employers responsible for maintaining a harassment-free workplace creates tension with creating private space for employees in the workplace. Lots of things are in tension with privacy in different settings (national security and crime prevention, policing defamation of copyright infringement, stopping bullying). It's a matter of calibrating the correct balance. Thanks, L. It did come up in class, though you stated it especially well here.

I agree completely that making employers responsible for maintaining a harassment-free workplace creates tension with creating private space for employees in the workplace. Lots of things are in tension with privacy in different settings (national security and crime prevention, policing defamation of copyright infringement, stopping bullying). It’s a matter of calibrating the correct balance.

]]> By: L. Mann http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-6774 L. Mann Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:35:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/03/29/wal-mart-and-workplace-privacy/#comment-6774 Sorry to chime in late, and far too late for your class. But I was struck by the apparent similarity here to landmark cases regarding sexual harassment. It is a manager have sex with a subordinate? Although I can't tell the gender from the Times excerpt available to me, it does remind me of the gender and power relations aspects of privacy, and how privacy concerns can interfere, and historically have been used to interfere with addressing other concerns with exploitation (that are often gendered). It's not only in the company's interest to be concerned with higher-power employees' possible sexual exploitation of people they have power over. I hope this issue was raised in your class! Sorry to chime in late, and far too late for your class. But I was struck by the apparent similarity here to landmark cases regarding sexual harassment. It is a manager have sex with a subordinate? Although I can’t tell the gender from the Times excerpt available to me, it does remind me of the gender and power relations aspects of privacy, and how privacy concerns can interfere, and historically have been used to interfere with addressing other concerns with exploitation (that are often gendered). It’s not only in the company’s interest to be concerned with higher-power employees’ possible sexual exploitation of people they have power over.

I hope this issue was raised in your class!

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