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!
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.
I thought this was going to be about the “Australian Minister of Banking” email. 
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?
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
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
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!