Someone at work made a serious e-mail fox pause, or as the more refined might say, a faux pas. Someone out of one of the Denver offices sent an e-mail to everyone in the western United States that should have been sent to just the manager being addressed in it. The content of the e-mail was hardly confidential. It didn't deal with company technology or corporate strategy or any such thing. Instead, it contained some information about a manger's meeting and the perks that surrounded it. Hardly bringing down the house, but it definitely bothered some people at the district that these managers were getting some of these perks. And of course the content was misunderstood by some such that they believed the perks were better than they actually were. What isn't well understood is that some people get perks because they are good at what they do. If they didn't get them, then they would go somewhere else. That's how upper management works.
But the best part of the whole thing was the follow-up e-mail. Upon realizing their error, the sender than sent out the exact same e-mail but changed the header to say that the previous e-mail was a virus even though it did not have an attachment. Hilarious and very pathetic. You messed up, just admit it.
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Where can I locate the email site?
I get email-withdrawal email all the time. Most of it is quite harmless, although all of it shows the danger in that "send" button.
One trick I learned is always put or insert the email address(es) just before you decide to send. Write and reread your message a few times. When it is ready to send, then insert your recipient's address. Check the address one more time before you click 'send'.
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