# Hoax emails in upside down world. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145 "2007-03-08T19:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/21 "2007-03-09T21:48:18Z")
Thanks, I think he did, too. I think I’ll reward his ignorance fighting efforts over a bitchin’ bottle of wine and a “soak” in the spa this evening. 😃 See, kids? Fighting ignorance has its rewards!! Sexy time! Woooo! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/22 "2007-03-09T23:03:27Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] I work at a rather large company and the other day I found a basket set aside for soda can tabs near the recycling. This one was for chemotherapy rather than dialysis but at this point you’d almost have to be willfully ignorant to collect tabs… [/QUOTE] We have one of those in the break room where I work. I photocopied the snopes article, high lighted the relevant section and taped it above the collection box. Two days later my article was thrown in the trash and the box still remains. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/23 "2007-03-10T05:35:17Z")
I thought this was going to be about the “Australian Minister of Banking” email. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/24 "2007-03-10T07:58:18Z")
[QUOTE=drachillix] … I too grabbed the snopes link and mailed it back to the VP, someone I would normally need about 3 layers of authorization to even think about speaking to. … About 10 min after that my boss drags me in wanting to know WTF I was thinking emailing VP Ops. [/QUOTE] When you speak to your boss, are you allowed to look him in the eye, or do you have remain on your knees with your gaze discreetly directed at the floor? What kind of company is this, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/25 "2007-03-10T08:34:42Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] When you speak to your boss, are you allowed to look him in the eye, or do you have remain on your knees with your gaze discreetly directed at the floor? What kind of company is this, anyway? [/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing. I work for a “very big company” but our CIO (great-great-great-grandboss) and I have had personal and professional chats a couple times with no other management involved and using first names. He tells us his email and phone are open, and in staff meetings he routinely assigns senior VPs with running down an answer to an individual’s question and suggests people email them directly. I’m sure a lot of these requests end up delegated, but these people aren’t holy or anything. Often quite the opposite. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/26 "2007-03-10T11:00:40Z")
At the place I work for, we have an e-mail and memo system set up. There’s a system-wide memo system and a building-wide one, plus the individual’s e-mail box. People use the memo systems for e-mail forwards, selling personal items, and like a retarded version of Freecycle. At least once a week I debunk someone using Snopes. It drives me insane. Using the memo system to set up a Photoshop users group is one thing, as we use Photoshop in the newsroom. Using the memo system to sell the extra NASCAR tickets you have, or spread a rumor about plastics emitting cancerous shit? Not cool, not cool at all. Complaining does nothing - some of the worst violators are our bosses. This is what the tackboards in the break rooms are for, people. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145/27 "2007-03-10T13:04:06Z")
In the days before Internet connections were as common as mushrooms, my company’s DC office got its email through a series of servers at our Navy customer. (My email was something like 50 characters long: a.w.b%server\_01/johnqsmithinc$mailnet@navsea.navy.mil .) Two nimrods at my company (male & female) started emailing mash notes to one another. This woud’ve been OK (or at least not noticed), as company emails never went past our server and stayed within our network. But they were selecting the “send to all” option. :eek: This didn’t just send it to everyone at our office; it sent it to every single person at the Naval Sea Systems Command in Crystal City, VA. It almost cost us a contract. :smack: Twits! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoax-emails-in-upside-down-world/395145.md?page=1)