Hasn&#x27;t the safe advice been that whatever you do on company resources (except time) can be monitored&#x2F;investigated by the company? Isn&#x27;t it generally bad practice to handle personal business on a work phone&#x2F;work laptop&#x2F;work desktop anyway due to the assumption that your activities can be legally monitored by your company?<p>Understandably, if you make a send a message&#x2F;make a personal phone call on company time to your doctor or spouse regarding some issue then that shouldn&#x27;t be grounds for the company to investigate just because you were on their time and my reasoning for this is that even when you&#x27;re off the clock, you can still be disciplined for activities that may portray the company in a bad light (getting into a bar fight after work, for example) so its assumed that you&#x27;re never really off work.<p>Either way, if I were him I wouldn&#x27;t have assumed I could have used company hardware to send personal messages yet still have an expectation of privacy.