Of course roles have budgets, salary ranges, etc. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs. Thats similar to my (and many peoples) response to the previous snooping letter, and I think it works for a lot of such situations. (Im in a marketing-related field, so I go to check out their brochures and sales pitches to see what I can learn and get a free lunch.). But dont let on that youve done so. Honestly, I cant really imagine searching them, unless they told me they had a DeviantArt page or something. If I google you and find your home address, thats not a violation. The first difference between a colleague and a coworker is your working relationship. Its five answers to five questions. @pleaset, good perspective and Im glad you posted this. Id say that driving by is way more likely to be noticed, and thus be creepy. So, I googled a coworker with a more senior title than me. colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs. I believe that I have to proceed on the assumption that he will. Couldnt those people just walk over to where ever the food is and grab some. Do you see a For Sale sign out front? If I have my blinds open I can see into their windows and they can see into mine. I believe that everything I put out on the internet, no matter how much care I take to protect it, can probably be found and traced to me if the right people were looking for it. It is PUBLICITY. Maybe its not fair or rational, but I absolutely feel pissed and a little violated when people discover the worst experience of my life because they couldnt manage a little bit of their own curiosity over how long I was at my last job. I do get creeped out when I see someone liked one of them from five years ago. That makes sense to do. Those are typically compiled only from publicly available records the ones that go beyond public records typically requite you to have obtained consent and a social security number from the person youre looking up. @Librarian of SHIELD You should see if you can sell them online! Copyright 2007 - 2023 Ask A Manager. I mean if they were giving off serious serial killer vibes and I had to work alone with them, that would be one thing, but otherwise, no. What did you do? They had warned me that due to their being a start-up they might not be able to offer competitive compensation, so I should not have been too surprised. I think whats more important is what you do with that information if you happen to find it, not whether or not you looked it up. To help you understand how to communicate with your work colleagues, follow these steps and suggestions: 1. Such reasons are theyre acting creepy or setting off that gut check response [another comment above here goes into an account of how their creep-radar went off and googling confirmed suspicions], they mention something in passing that makes you go Wait, what? for #5, I work for a fully remote team and the CEO has all of our venmo accounts. Asking someone directly also makes it A Thing and sometimes its better for everyone of curiosity is satisfied in a low key way. And for the next five years? The nicer ones were, if I was in the mood, occasionally given a short speech about folks with shotguns in Idaho who did not take kindly to uninvited strangers parking in front of their house and staring or taking photos. And yes it would jade me with working with that person if they were doing it to avoid talking to me or judge my skills. One can hardly post details of their personal life online and then claim that anyone who sees it is pre-judging or not getting to know them. Valued people work better. I think that first example might even get you asked to leave a restaurant depending on the context. Society as a whole has determined that making those kinds of transactions public serve a legitimate societal interest, same with marriage, divorce, criminal records.