I work in a relatively small office and we recently hired on 3 new people a few months ago and one of them likes to send out D&D caliber type of e-mails to most people in the office including upper management, the owner, the HR director and personal contacts .. I work in IT here and we are in the oil and gas industry and the owner is, lets say a “good ole boy” so most of the people here he has hired tend to have the same views as the e-mails going out (at least from what I can tell).. My problem is some of the e-mails he sends are so blatantly false that I want to slam his ass with snopes links and tell him off for almost every damn e-mail he sends out.. His latest was a version of this gem http://www.snopes.com/katrina/politics/jobfair.asp I work with another person that also thinks his e-mails are also crap, but I feel we are in the minority in the office when it comes to this and that brings me to the next part.. My problem is I don’t feel very comfortable talking to anyone here in the office that can do anything about it because I feel they think this type of behavior is acceptable because they don’t see anything wrong with the e-mails.. Unfortunately because we do work together I need to read his e-mails and I cannot just ignore him totally.. I try to blow off his e-mails when I can see where they are heading and tell him off in my head, but the rhetoric he spews in his e-mails always seem to get me riled up.. I don’t really care what opinion he has because he really is a nice and friendly guy like everyone else I work with, but IMO his e-mails should be kept out of the office.. What would you do?? Suck it up and don’t say anything because it isn’t worth it Send only him a reply and risk him telling others in the office that I’m the crazy one Send him, HR, upper management and the owner a reply asking him to not send anymore e-mails like this Talk to HR and let her deal with it, but she could think I’m crazy too..
At the very least, I would respond back to all when they're false like that. If no one else cares like you say, I'd just grin and bear it.
I would tell him to check with Snopes before sending some of these emails out. Show him...PRIVATELY...about Snopes, and tell him you just don't want people to get the wrong idea. He will probably be greatful. DD
You work in IT He's abusing email. hmmmmmmmmm. what to do (serioulsy -- don't debate him on this. just ask him not to forward you the emails).
This is most definitely inappropriate office behavior. I would definitely respond the emails that have been shot down by Snopes with a link saying something like, "Actually, this is an email that has been circulating for a while and is innacurate. Click the link below for more information." If you can do that a few times to this guy and CC the entire staff on it like he has done, my guess is that he'll do it less in the future.
Our emails are heavily monitored. We have to be careful what we send to other people. Stuff like political emails and off color jokes are a HUGE no-no. People have been sacked for that kind of thing. 2 just in the last year. I thought all companies were like this.
If I had my way it would be, but the owner just doesnt see it like that (from what I can tell).. It's one of those things that he wont take notice until it bites him in the ass IMO..
This guy has no office manners. He must be a newbie to the work world. Nobody wants fw: crap in their inbox, especially at work.
I work for a very small company, and almost all of our interoffice emails are off-color and political. I've worked in offices like that though, and it makes me happy to have the job I got.
Yes and no.. We are in 2 totally different sides of the company in operations, age wise the guy has kids older than me, but I've been at the company longer than he has..
Most likely I'd make a rule to automatically delete any email that I got from him, and then forget about it. But since you can't do that, I'd email him asking him not to send me anything not work related and see what he says.
Chop his hands off with an axe, then stare him straight in the eye and yell type something funny now, smartass!" Red Leary...a true classic.
I've snoped people at work before. But only when it was to a small group of people I knew. If it was a large group, I wouldn't want to rub anyone the wrong way and I'd just let it go.
If this guy is like most of the people that have a fervent belief in these sham e-mail editorials, opposing him will only make his wrong-headed convictions stronger and louder.
Are there a handful of recurring themes that he sends out the most? You could write a rule in Outlook, Novell, or whatever email client you use to block those. If it's just a random hodgepodge of crap, that wouldn't help any.
