Whose email is Arnold reading?

The governor vetoed a bill yesterday that would have required employers to notify their employees that all email and Internet usage is subject to monitoring.  Sounds pretty straightforward, especially since state law already requires this notice for telephone monitoring in the workplace.  Schwarzenegger's objection was that the required notice was too vague and could not be implemented in any standardized way.  How about just a laminated sign in the lunchroom, next to the minimum wage law notification? And add a sentence in the employee handbook.  Or an automated message to every employee's inbox every Monday morning.  The point is that the issue clearly has little to do with standardization but everything to do with employer trust.  Even though most employees with any sense realize that nothing they write in an email is safe from voyeurs, memorializing that concept in a conspicuous place would crystallize a resentment toward their bosses and hurt productivity and morale.  That is the real fear of the commerce lobby, the bill's biggest opponents.  But you have to wonder whether a conspicuous notice of email monitoring would have the desired effect the bill proponents seek: making employees think twice before engaging in inappropriate or personal Internet use.   Sure there are a handful of people that may actually change their behavior, but the rest of us are already quite adept at modifying our Internet use patterns for the workplace.  It's just a little thing called common sense.