Think Hard Before You Hit “Send”
I get approximately 38,194 e-mails, updates, alerts, tweets, etc. every day notifying me of the latest trends in workplace law. Lately, approximately 99.2% of them deal with technology and/or social media.
Thought I would pass along just a few recent examples for your reading pleasure:
- Click here for a discussion on how employers are dealing with the latest forms of CrackBerry addiction in the workplace.
- Click here for a blog devoted entirely to avoiding e-mail disasters, including why it’s never a good idea to send racist e-mails at work (and why “oops, I meant to send this to a different address list” probably isn’t a great defense).
- Click here for a prediction that Twitter will kill traditional performance evaluations and here for a “tweetable” Twitter policy (i.e., it’s less than 140 characters).
- Even law schools are getting in on the act. Click here for a study dubbing itself The First Law School Seminar Paper on Twitter.
Enjoy.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Mark, this was a top-of-mind topic for me, as my wife just told me about an incident at her work, which hits on something you mentioned.
The company sent out a message saying that someone had resigned and wishing him well (he had been a long-term employee). Another employee went to respond to a few people and accidentally hit “reply all” and his message said, “The reason this guy is leaving is because our company sucks.” among other things.
They fired him the next day.
June 24th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Thanks for the comment, Craig. Hitting “reply all” has resulted in more than a few career-ending communications. A friend of mine once sent an e-mail eerily similar to the one you described — the result wasn’t pretty. Thanks for sharing!