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Courts Rule Employers Can Search Employee Text Messages

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It's a basic concept

evrodude

Jun 18, 2010, 1:05 PM
that a lot of people do not seem to understand. If a phone is give to you by your employer, it is their phone and they can go through it's contents any time they want. So therefore you should not be using any company property for personal use.
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Da_Bonehead

Jun 18, 2010, 4:48 PM
And if you refuse to let them check the content of the phone they let you use, they can fire you. if you work as an at will employee they don't even need a reason to fire you.
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jinx7676

Jun 19, 2010, 7:28 AM
exactly. i don't know why this should anger anyone. when i am given my company phone i have to agree that it is used for work communication and all said communications and usage can be monitored if the company so chooses.as well as anything on the phone stays the property of the company. i.e. if i take pics with it and they fire me, they don't "owe" me those pics.

pretty plain black and white stuff here.
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