RE: You wrote WHAT?!? (WAS: That other thread...)

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Woohoo!

So, I can get some people fired, just by 
sending e-mail to them?  They don't have to 
answer it, or use the (gasp!) words themselves, 
they just have to be standing in the way when 
I hit the 'Send' button, and they get the axe?

Wow.    ........... power......   :-)

Remind me to search through my various 
mailing lists for AOL addresses.  Buaaaahahahahahaaaaa!

As for your other point... I'm sure I get more X-rated 
spam due to -- as Eric has pointed out -- my address 
(and yours, and yours, and yours too...) being made 
available in the newsgroup mirror of this list.

But fortunately, I guess, even before the layoffs my 
company appeared to be quite free of people with 
their heads up their...   ok, won't say that, here...

Anyway, for the record, I was not defending on-list 
vulgarism. I was inquiring about a statement of business 
policy.  Sorta like that contractor non-compete thread; 
something to be wary of when next seeking employment as 
a TW: "We hold you responsible for what other people 
might send to you, even if we filter it out before it 
every gets to you...  Even though we are hiring you 
for your professional capbilities, we don't credit 
you with the intelligence to decide if a resource's 
value outweighs any possible unsavory attributes. 
Even if you are not offended, we will go out of our 
way to be offended on your behalf, to the extent of 
removing you from the situation in which you were 
exposed to the offence."

/kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> > Is anybody on the list aware of ANYBODY (even anecdotally) 
> > ever being fired or reprimanded for RECEIVING vulgarisms in e-mail?
> 
> 1) If you are using AOL for company business, and yes, many companies
> do, they have language filters, where with repeated incendents, will
> terminate service...explain to your boss how you single handidly
> cancelled your company's email service.
> 
> 2) Content filtering software logs incidents. X number of log entries
> and you get "noticed". Explain to your boss how you participate in a
> forum, on company time, where this is the level of discussion.

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