I plan to terminate my newest employee and want to keep a copy of the text message his wife sent me. How can I do that? I don’t expect any problems, but I’d like it to stand up to legal scrutiny if it should become necessary.
Thanks in advance.
I plan to terminate my newest employee and want to keep a copy of the text message his wife sent me. How can I do that? I don’t expect any problems, but I’d like it to stand up to legal scrutiny if it should become necessary.
Thanks in advance.
Smart phone?
I’d take a screenshot. Not sure if that would be enough in a legal situation.
I have an SMS backup app on my Android which sends a copy of every SMS to my Gmail account. Again, I don’t know how that would stand up legally if I needed to produce it as evidence.
Yes. It’s a smart phone. Also, how can I tell what time the text was sent, anyone know?
I wasn’t wearing the phone and only saw the text later. It only shows the date from what I can see.
Thanks Eliahna.
Most phones have the option of forwarding a text- can you re-send it to yourself? Since you have a smartphone you should be able to send it to yourself in the form of an email (I did that once and it recorded the time and date along with who sent it). Or go to HR ASAP if that’s possible and have them document the text message.
Forward to your email if it’s a one-off thing.
If you have an Android phone, use an app called “SMS Backup”, which will automatically back up all your texts to your email.
EDIT: SMS Backup will include the time the SMS was sent. Oh, also, on your phone you can usually “long press” and click “details” to get the exact time of the text.
What smart phone? Android has tons of apps that will do that. “SMS backup and Restore” will save texts. I am sure that the iphone has similar apps.
It’s an lg spectrum, gazpacho.
Thanks for the help everyone.
I appreciate you can’t share any more info given the circumstances, but damn, that sounds intriguing!
Keep the message on the phone. That’s simplest, although probably not convenient.
Anything else that renders the message in a different medium (especially plain text) could be accused of having been tampered.
Take a photo of the message on screen (or just transcribe it), then get someone to notarize the photo/transcript as an accurate record.
Thanks Mangetout.
sandra, It’s not really that big of a deal. The text is from the wife letting us know that our employee wasn’t feeling well so he wouldn’t be coming to work. It was his 5th day on the job, or would have been.