just curious why your company has this view? Does your company consult for the government or womething? It’s not common practice that I’m aware of. It’s not like you are required to put passwords on the visa appilication or embarcation card 
Imagine for a moment that you had just lost your job, been arrested, accused of stealing thousands of dollars, and involuntarily committed to the mental health ward. You’d be pretty upset, right? Then someone comes along and gives you lovely tranquilizers – lots of them – to calm you down. You’d feel better too. That doesn’t mean that you were really in need of commitment to begin with.
Annie, go for it!
Let’s go with some common sense here.
You get committed?
Drama alert.
Whining that you have been railroaded by the boss and the cops and whoever else is out to get you is plain and simple crazy talk. You are undoubtedly one of those people.
ABORT/RETRY/FAIL
Yeah, yeah, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck… you need to check your perception because there are no ducks posting in this thread.
On a slightly different note, I’m really impressed that even in the Pit, the Dopers here are, by and large, considering this situation from several angles, instead of just jumping on some simple-minded bandwagon. Many people have expressed doubts and concerns about various aspects, but have for the most part been thoughtful and respectful, and have been posing questions rather than engaging in base pontificating. Some few even have had the courage to express empathy.
But there are a lot more psychoactive drugs than tranquilizers, and we don’t know what she got or for what. Those would be more appropriate, I’d think, during an acute episode of panic, maybe for generalized anxiety. I suspect some kinds might be a bad idea if the patient is depressed - though it’s been ages since I’ve studied this stuff so I really can’t recall. There are other drugs that can be given - for anxiety, depression, psychosis, and so on. Also, as mentioned before, patients are supposed to be notified of what they are being given and why. Really, the only way to tell for sure what went on and why is to dig into the medical records, and that’s between the OP and legal counsel at this point.
I’m just saying, as others have pointed out as well, there isn’t necessarily an either-or situation - it could be that the boss did frame her, and that she freaked out enough that the police and medical staff were potentially justified in their actions. Even if the boss had said “she’s freaked out hundreds of times over the years at the job, she’ll be OK soon” the police might have worried that this was not a “she’ll be OK” situation but a “there is something seriously wrong with her” situation and things proceeded from there.
(And as for me personally? I doubt I would be in that situation - I’ve never “freaked out” in my memory, much less hundreds of times, and I’ve worked for some crappy bosses. Worst I’ve been driven to by a boss is some silent tears welling up, and venting later on in tones that might be mistaken for a “some jerk cut me off” complaint. But that just goes to show you the variability in people and why the people involved might have reacted as they did.)
hehe. Common practice, but it always ends badly IME.
Makes me wonder if they’ve taken the $5K themselves and are trying to pin it on ‘the unstable one who just quit’ because she’s an easy target.
Annie, if you’ve ever accessed this site from work then you should ask a mod to delete the thread. There’s too much information on here that makes you identifiable, and your words could be twisted against you. I look forward to hearing the outcome and hope it goes well for you.
Maybe I missed it: where was the part where the original poster said she didn’t actually take the $5,000? :eek:
I’m with some others here. There is more here than has met the light of day (though I’m not saying I think she really did take the $5,000). :dubious:
Why would the company accountant be asking for the passwords to her personal (by which I take it you mean non-employer-provided) e-mail account?
If you didn’t mean non-employer-provided, then you’re wrong, by the way.
Annie, today is supposed to be your hearing about the restraining order. Can you tell us how that went?
That’s exactly my point. If it’s a personal email account, they don’t have a right to that information and if it’s a company email account, they shouldn’t have to ask because they should have the power to reset it themselves.
Something’s fishy.
Depends on the size of the company and given the fact that the accountant is the spouse, I’m thinking it’s not that big. I used to work at a small company where I was, by default, the ‘IT person’ simply because I knew the most about IT. But I didn’t have a way of accessing other people’s laptops or email accounts, as I wasn’t set up as an administrator.
She probably shouldn’t.
We have encrypted drives in our laptops and the Chinese government insists that when bringing things through customs they are allowed access. So its giving the password to the customs official if they ask. The Chinese government isn’t big on encryption.
But what I’m saying is, someone has to be set up as the administrator and that person can retreive Annie’s password.
I’m sure the OP can clear this up, but there’s definitely some confusion over personal email accounts (accessing annie @ hotmail.com at work) and personal work accounts (annie @ workplace.com, rather than the general customerservice @ workplace.com). If it’s a very small place they can contact their provider or an IT person and reset passwords but it would be much easier to just have the passwords. But as mentioned before, still think it’s safest for her to not give them.
It could be other kinds of passwords–passwords to membership websites, for example, to networked databases, etc.
Or the secret clubhouse.
The office could be using an application created by Bozo the Consultant, who is long gone. Annie was the only one who took the trouble to figure it out; so she was useful, if a bit high strung at times.
A little company may not have an “IT Department”–or an “HR Department.”
(With not-so-fond memories of a little company where my paycheck bounced. Twice.)