If you're going to e-mail porn around the company ...

The BBQ Pit
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… make sure you have the right e-mail address, OK? I mean, make really sure. Dumbass.

I started with this company almost a year ago. And it turned out, there’s someone else here (at another location, in a company with tens of thousands of employees) with almost the same name as mine. And I sometimes get his e-mail. I always forward it right on to him when I see it wasn’t intended for me, which is usually pretty obvious since he’s in sales and I’m in programming.

So this morning, I open my e-mail and find three messages from someone internal that I don’t know, two of which are ‘here’s a funny joke’ type subjects, and the other one of which looks like an official marketing document is being sent. So I forward all three to my namesake … As I send third one, I notice that the attachment isn’t a Word or Powerpoint document like I usually see, but a collection of JPEG images.

Crap.

I opened one to verify, and sure enough-they’re pictures of semi-naked women from someone’s trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. :smack:

So, not only is this pus-brain using the company e-mail system to send naked pictures to people, poorly disguised as official company business, but he’s sending them to the wrong people! And come to think of it, now I’m an accomplice to his moronic scheme.

When I do these forwards, I always cc the sender, so he knows he sent stuff to the wrong address. I hope he’s crapping his pants right now. Maybe I should find out who the sales manager is for that region & forward the e-mail to him/her. Or maybe I should update my resume.

Some people need to find a way to disconnect their gonads when they’re at work, so they don’t override their brain, or whatever they use for one. I’d be happy to help this guy-I’m sure I can find a cattle castrator device, over in Fort Worth if not right here. Maybe that’ll larn him. Probably not, though-I suspect it takes about two minutes for his brain cell to forget everything that’s ever happened in his entire life.

Grrr. Well, my manager just got in-I’d better go talk to him. I don’t know about where these guys work, but our e-mail is monitored here …

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At my last job a co-worker would send porn to my company e-mail on a regular basis. Our e-mail was also monitored, and since they had suspended someone a few weeks prior for sending porn I asked the co-worker to stop. He told me since he received it from someone else in the company it was okay to forward on. He did stop sending it to me eventually, but he must have been right. He’s still with the company (and still sending porn) while I was laid off.

There was someone else with the exact same name as mine. I would always get work related e-mails that were intended for him. I’m talking 10-15 e-mails a day. I would always notify the sender of his/her mistake. I also let the man with my name know what was going on, and his response was, “So what?” After that I started deleting the e-mails. Now that I’m not with the company it’s not a problem anymore. I just wish I could see the look on the sender’s face when they get the “No e-mail address found” message.

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Well, my boss told me to forward the e-mail to our local HR director with an explanation of how I came to receive and forward it. I asked him if I should cc him-he said, “Uh, no.” :smiley:

The whole thing just reminds me of an ancient Dilbert cartoon. “Um, Tina, two things. When you’re sending e-mail, watch out for the ‘send to all’ address. And, uh, thank you very much.”

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i guess i could see your concern about getting in trouble for having porn in your email (although i’d be much more concerned that my company monitors my email), but who cares what some guy you don’t even know does with his acct? who cares if he wants to sit at his desk with a hard on? why must he ‘disconnect his gonads’ at work?

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I you do disconnect his gonads, how about sending me the JPEG?

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If anyone would like to send some porn to my work email, let me know and I’ll give you the addy.:smiley:

I fully support porn at work. I cried the day they installed our present firewalls. Now I can’t look at anything!!! Motherfuckers.

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Btw, do you really consider Mardi Gras type pictures porn? I don’t. Them’s just boobies.

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jwhee, I’m just ticked that his gonads + tiny brain = me possibly getting in trouble. And I fully support the right of my company to monitor the use of their equipment, for productivity and to maintain a gender-friendly workplace. :stuck_out_tongue:

lieu, you betcha. But I haven’t even found that cattle castrator yet.

Indygrrl, you betcha too-I have lots of porn on my home computer, naturally. :smiley: And you’re probably right, the stuff I got was just … well … I don’t think ‘erotica’ is really the right word … Yeah, you’re right-it’s just boobies. But I deal with enough boobies at work that I really don’t need more boobies sent there.

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The “Reply to All” flub-up emails have given me quite a number of shocked chuckles. The worst are the “thank god that’s not me” types wherein the “flubber” forwards his/her message to the entire 5000 employers rather than to just his/her friend and lets us all know what he/she really thinks of the new policy the CEO just announced.

The sender usually makes a pathetic attempt to issue an Outlook “recall” command, but it almost never works.

The running joke whenever we here at work see one of these emails is to look and each other and say, "5… 4… 3… 2… 1… " representing the countdown 'til the emailer is asked to leave.

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There has GOT to be some sort of story here…

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Like browsing the SDMB?

:smiley:

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Only if your e-mail address is your work address, I suppose! :smiley:

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So…you guys hiring?

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Eh.

When I worked in the stores dept. of a reprographics company, one of the sales reps returned a stack of promotional literature from which he had neglected to remove about a dozen polaroids of himself, uh, in a sensitive position with a silicon-equipped strumpet.

Considering that you couldn’t walk thirty feet in any direction in that place without tripping over a colour copier, he took a real risk. (Never mind that those promotional materials are usually given out to clients without a lot of scrutiny.)

I just handed them back to him in a brown envelope. Yet another serendipitous opportunity for lucrative exortion passed up. I’ll never learn.

Mardis Gras pictures? Whatever.

If it were me, I wouldn’t have involved the HR dept. – it sounds like any heat directed at the OP could have been dodged easily enough by simply saying it was passed on to the intended recipient without close examination… …but I guess if the guy gets the sack you won’t have the irritation of having to forward his mail all the time.

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Yeah, but it wasn’t SCSimmons’ almost-namesake who sent the Mardi Gras shots; it was someone else, whom he didn’t know. That person will be the one called on the carpet. And SCS only forwarded it to HR at the behest of his boss.

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I think going to the HR department was exactly what the OPer should have done, if for no other reason than to cover his ass.

Several years ago, at a well-known New York advertising agency at which I was employed, the CEO got his mitts on an e-mail with some inappropriate material that had been forwarded around the company. His approach? Simply fire every single person listed in the forward headers.

CYA, folks. CYA.

This has been a public service announcement.

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How the hell can (anyone) you work for a company where such Orwellian rules are accepted as a matter of course?

shakes head

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shrug

Their equipment, their rules. It’s not like they’re monitoring his PC at home. They paid for the computer, they pay for the network, they pay for the techs who keep the computers and networks running, they pay for the servers (or pay for the ISP), they pay for the bandwidth…therefore, they have the right to monitor use. And they also have the right to monitor behavior while on the clock.

People who are forwarding porn or surfing the internet for personal shits and giggles are cheating the company of worktime. Companies have a right to monitor productivity. If one does not wish to have their computer use monitored, one should not work for such a company. But one shouldn’t complain when such a company takes steps to prevent being cheated of time and resources.

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Do you believe that a company has a right to listen in on any phone calls you make/receive? After all, they are providing the phone and the phone lines.

Do you believe that a company has a right to read any mail you receive or send from your office? After all, they are providing the staff to send/receive/deliver the mail in the office.

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jackelope: Darn straight. :slight_smile: Seriously, nobody around here is going to bust me on productivity; everyone’s well aware that I bust my butt making everyone else’s job easier. And the only reason anyone at this site would be concerned about boobies on my screen is in terms of sexual harrassment claims for a hostile work environment. And since the only other person in this little office is a female who, until her pregnancy recently started to show, regularly wore clothing that showed most of her boobies anyway, I doubt it would ever come up.

Weirddave, there are certainly worse things that a company could be doing. Fact is, THespos hit the nail on the head. I know my manager wouldn’t personally care, nor would the senior manager he reports to. But I’m not sure about the VP he reports to-and there are a fair number of higher levels in the org chart that I know virtually nothing about. And if one of those execs ends up with a copy of that e-mail and gets a hankering to purge the company of perverts, it’s important to me that my ass is covered. That’s life working for a huge company.

And honestly, Weirddave, it doesn’t bug me all that much. My local management doesn’t care if I surf the SDMB for half an hour in my work day, as long as all of my stuff gets done. If I’m going to get noticed by higher-ups, I just want to make sure it’s for something positive, that’s all. And the company I work for was in the thirties on Fortune magazines 2002 list of the top 100 companies to work for. The policies overall are very reasonable, and they notice and reward good work, and they’re very good at (to quote one of Scott Adams’ basic principles of management in his hypothetical perfect company) eliminating the assholes. My predecessor in this position thought he was indispensable-he’d designed a bunch of undocumented processes that nobody else understood, and he figured he could be whatever kind of asshole he wanted and they’d have to put up with it. He was wrong. Yes, it was inconvenient for a while for everyone while I sorted out his messes-but it was worth it, because nobody had to deal with any assholes. I love not having to deal with any assholes myself, and I’m happy to deal with boobies when they’re not wanting to be assholes about it.

Um, I’m off the subject, I guess. Back to your regular program …

Dijon Warlock and greyseal- :smiley: There are several kinds of boobies I deal with, but the ones you’re thinking of actually are included, now that I think of it. First time my wife met my work team here, we all had lunch together. When we got into our car after the meal, the first thing she said was, “Gosh-do you think she could show any more cleavage?” It did make it hard to concentrate for a while, but I got used to it …