An NH Nonghyup Life branch manager has been accused of taking an employee's desktop computer after work hours and rummaging through customer information when the employee left the office.
According to reporting by ChosunBiz on the 14th, A, an insurance planner at NH Nonghyup Life, recently filed a complaint with the Seodaemun Police Station accusing B, the manager of the branch where A works, of charges including obstruction of business by computer, property damage, and invasion of secrecy.
According to the complaint, on the 6th, after leaving work, A stepped out of the office and then remembered having left some documents and returned. But the desktop computer tower from A's workstation was in the branch manager's office, which is B's workspace. When A protested, B reportedly said, "Don't come in as you please. Get out."
On the 10th, A submitted the complaint against B to the Seodaemun Police Station. In a phone call with ChosunBiz, A said, "B routinely monitored my every move and picked a fight over every little thing. There were also frequent occasions of publicly humiliating me in front of other employees," and added, "It appears B tried to dig through the data stored on the computer to find grounds to push me out of the company."
In response, B said, "A did not use the company-issued computer and instead conducted personal sales unrelated to the company on a personal laptop," and claimed, "What I did was retrieve the company-issued computer; I did not open or look at the data inside it."