[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Not acceptable of course but a common problem with employees who have substantial customer contact. Let's assume (yeah, I know...) for a moment the company tried to 'work this out' with the employee first before going the legal route one has to wonder what the guy was thinking.[/citation]
they say that keep the account, so he made a personal account, if he still mentioned a company every now and then, I see no problem.
[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]I have to side with him and not the company from the information given and here is why.#1: They told him that he could have the account, they also likely never specified that he was not authorized to change the name on the account.#2: From the article it seems that he did not try to gain personal profits from the list, or try to aid any rival company of theirs with the list. He also changed the name and did not pretend to be the company.#3: It effects the customers none and they can always stop following him at anytime. #4: If they were that willing to give the account away then it is obvious they never planned to use it beyond him leaving originally.#5: If any wrong doing was done it was by the company by giving him permission to take the account which albeit minimal will contain customer information which may be against privacy laws. There is a chance that all 17,000 followers could sue PhoneDog for such, and rightfully so.If PhoneDog was smart they would have never brought this into the light.[/citation]
customer information? This isn't a receipt list, this isn't customer information, this is them willingly signed up for twitter. should I sue Tom's hardware because someone who works there could've seen my account name and left the site?