Have a question for all the IT veterans on here:
The Owner of the company I work for recently asked via my manager if he could be given a way to view the entire inbox of the employee in charge of Human Resources, without her knowing. I told him yes and setup through our domain/exchange the permissions so he could add her mailbox to his outlook. Recently, very “out of the blue” this HR employee asked if I had done anything to her email, to which I replied “no”, as I was sworn to secrecy by my manager and the guy signing the checks…. so the questions:
1. Is anything I did illegal since she is in charge of H.R.? I assume not since a corporate mailbox should be treated as if it is being monitored anyway, especially if it is H.R. related email.
2. Is there any way for the H.R. employee to somehow figure out her mailbox had been modified? I figure no, unless for some reason the company Owner somehow sent an email using her mailbox or somehow let on that he could read her email in conversation, etc.
Thanks guys!
Edit – Thanks everyone for your replies so far. I’ve read them all and am going to gingerly approach the topic with my manager soon, hopefully I’ll be able to just remove the outlook permissions and find a better tool through google for monitoring. Although I won’t do a thing without written authorization 🙂 Thanks again!
