renovation

was talking to my brother inlaw today .and he said they fired 128 people at his company yesterday .becouse they all forwarded a email to each other .it was a santa who who said marry christmas and bent over and mooned you as he said it .this was a cartoon type email .and this was just at one of there office buildings .so a bit of warning all if your at work becareful what you forward in emails big brother may not think its as funny as you do. and this is a union office shop.and the union is not standing behind the workers who forwarded the email.these people were all called in to a meeting room and told your fired and why. this is a major heath insurance company that canned these people just before christmas.
but he said memos had been posted and sent out warning this could happen. and sure enought it did. also tenure didn't mean poop

__________________
You could pick up Lindsay Lohan for less than a intel 990x, and still have money left over to bail her outta jail

Cubsfan

As a general rule, I always think that work email should be used for work, nothing more. There's lots of reasons for this, but the story you related is good enough

uncledaddy

That's a lot of people at one time. I wonder if they were just looking for reasons to be able to terminate. Too bad.

__________________

renovation

i was thinking it was a set up by the company.and those took the bait! as i was told the story. this is a national company.but it was only one local branch that was targeted! from what i understand at this point.

Napoleon54

My company's pretty anal about email and internet usage, so I do NOT mix business with personal. I might look a couple things up online on my lunch break or something, but not more than maybe 1/2 hour per week. It seems to be a real hot button issue that predates me being hired and I haven't gotten the full scoop on it yet. No biggie.

__________________
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. - Friedrich Hayek

MrGreg

Did they only fire people who forwarded it, or also people who just received it?

__________________
-The nerd formerly known as vectorcalculus

Memo

Sounds like they were looking for an excuse to fire. A company that lets go that many people at one time so easily and so soon to the holidays doesn't care much about there employees.

It's dumb to forward emails like that in the office anyways. Not only do they not belong in a work environment it's extremely annoying to receive stupid mail like that in your work inbox.

Nija

You should be fired for forwarding pornography.

__________________

"Nija is the dark soul of gotapex. We don't like to talk about him." - LPMiller