Um.
If he didn't want the details of his illness spread around, why tell the boss?
The only reason I can think of is that the illness might impact his work in some way, and so his boss needed to know.
Why did his boss tell other woirkers?
The only reason I can think of is that he felt that warning people about the issue would be a way to minimise the impact on the workplace... which seems reasonable...
But it's presented as a situation where the boss was negligent or didn't care. I wonder which one it was. It would have been better journalism to have addressed that question....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
