The Supreme Court is taking on a case regarding an employee and his privacy when texting on a company pager.  Of course it is being sensationalized as many of the 450 texts were of a sexual nature.  Looking at it objectively, the police department the said employee worked for had every right to monitor the text messages.  It is a WORK pager.  Regardless of the content of the messages, the pager was misused for personal reasons, seems absurd to be resting in the Supreme Court.

All of my jobs over the last decade or two have had computers.  Many of the provisions regarding use of company property, privacy, and the intellectual rights are written into those employee handbooks no one reads, but new hires sign the page agreeing to abide by the regulations anyway.

Computers, cell phones, pagers, company cars…they are all considerable assets an employee is entrusted to handle to more efficiently perform their duties.  Their duties that benefit the outfit they work for without incurring any more personal cost.  Not their duty to rock that booty.  Perhaps this employee should have managed his money better to afford his cyber text sexing on his own pager.

Does anyone else feel that if you have a government job you get specialized human resource guidelines?  He happens to work for the police department, so it’s being carried up to the Supreme Court.   If it was you or I, we would just be embarrassed and/or jobless.