Opinion on just how much info to disclose?

[catsmeow1972, BSN, RN]

So I have just received a job offer (yes they are fine about the contract BS). It is actually a lateral transfer to the same position in another hospital owned by the same company. I am grateful to my current place for giving me a chance to get back into the workplace, but things have changed in that it has not been possible to keep any of this monitoring stuff under wraps and I have people that have no business knowing about it that do. (I think it stems from a certain supervisor who can't not run her yap).

Anyway, i get the offer and HR needs a list of some documentation that includes a copy of the contract. No big deal there. They need all 7 pages of it (I guess like legal stuff, you need all the pages to be sure nothing is left out.) Also not an issue. There are pages in it that i had to fill out that were the name, address and contact info for my therapist, my psychiatrist, my primary MD, my emergency contact. I understand the monitoring program getting this information, but why do i have to provide that to my employer? The employer is'nt going to do anything with it so my beef certainly is not with them. My beef is with the monitoring program that seems to have no problem with making us broadcast personal info to people/places that don't need to know. Confidentiality? Right.

What is anyone else's thoughts on this?

[CryssyD]

I guess they (the program) just doesn't think about it as a privacy issue; they don't seem to be concerned with privacy much anyway--as you said, they seem to expect you to just let it all hang out for everyone to see. Just keep in mind that your employer can't contact those people or get any info from them--they would need an OK from you for that.

As far as others knowing your business, that's a shame. Some people just can't keep their big mouths shut. However, there isn't much you can do about it, so try not to stress--keep your peace and know you are a bigger person than some workplace gossip who has the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

redact.

[catsmeow1972, BSN, RN]

That is what I did. I had made a bunch of copies of the thing for when I was interviewing. I had put all that on the original. So before I submitted it all I got busy with my white out tape thing.

The disregarding of my right to privacy just grates on me. It continues to baffle me how we are expected to "let it all hang out" so to speak and we're supposed to be grateful for the opportunity to repeatedly humiliate and embarrass ourselves. G-d I hate this.