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text threat from co worker
My co worker who I considered a friend and is no longer has threatened to show our boss 3 year old text messages that I sent to her in a unfavorable light concerning our boss. She has had these stored on a old phone of hers and just recently stated she would tell our boss. I feel this is a threat. I am a estate manager, and she is a caregiver within the home. I direct her work and she feels that I should leave her alone. I take full responsibility for the negative text messages, but this is hanging over my head each day in the workplace.
Asked on March 23, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, California
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
Actually, you have no rights in this matter. Any person to whom you send a text message to can share it with whomever they want, including your employer. So absent some tye of written agreement to the contrary, you have no claim here.
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
You can't do anything about this. Anyone to whom you sent messages may legally share them with anyone she wants, unless she had signed some written agreement (e.g. a confidentiality or nondisclosure agreement) to not share or disclose them. Assuming there is no such agreement, she can show them to your boss if she chooses.
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