She read my payslip!

[BearsandHearts]

Please help me settle a crappy argument ! We were in work today talking about housemates. When id just graduated I lived with a girl I vaguely knew through uni. Anyway one night she told me we earned the same as she'd picked my wage slip up off the side and read it. I was furious but my colleague thought I'd overreacted! It was years ago but come on surely I'm not being unreasonable??

Sideways

If the payslip was sealed when the housemate opened it then that is illegal. Which makes it a crime. Which would make the OP a victim of a crime.

I'd have been happy to just post and make no further comment.

But as you singled me out OP. Sorry, the 'art of conversation' is a term used to describe the ability to enter into a conversation with anyone from any social demographic in any given face to face social situation.

That's why it's called an 'art' and not 'asking people on the internet what they think about something'.

That's nice jacksgirl. As I say I'm not obsessed with it at all. Anyway thank you for the sensible posts x

If the payslip was sealed when the housemate opened it then that is illegal. Which makes it a crime. Which would make the OP a victim of a crime.

No. There is no general protection to not have sealed letters opened by someone else. It's an offence to intentionally delay or open mail in the course of its transmission by post. And it's an offence to intentionally open misdelivered mail intending to act to a person’s detriment. But just being nosey about an envelope in your own home isn't against the law.