Wal-Mart Fires Eavesdropping Employee

[HardOCP News]

When has recording phone conversations between your company’s public relations office and a newspaper reporter ever been a good idea? Wal-Mart fired a technician for doing just that, among other things, but said they would not pursue legal action at this point.

Wal-Mart said its internal investigation began Jan. 11 after an unidentified party alerted the company. That led to the discovery that the technician had monitored and recorded phone conversations between Wal-Mart's public relations staff and a New York Times reporter between September 2006 and January 2007. Wal-Mart said it notified the New York Times earlier Monday.

 

[HardOCP News]

When has recording phone conversations between your company’s public relations office and a newspaper reporter ever been a good idea?

...and don't say "At Hewlett Packard" either.

 

[GJSNeptune]

...and don't say "At Hewlett Packard" either.

Heh. NPR mentioned the HP bit while reporting about this

 

[Ockie]

I can see why recording phone conversations is bad, but what exactly did the technician want to find out for a conversation between a "Public" relations employee and a New York times "Reporter"


Makes me wonder if he didn't work for another news agency...