From the “where’s your brain?” files we find this piece from the Chicago Tribune.
Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line coach Larry Zierlein apologized Thursday for accidentally e-mailing an explicit sex video to numerous NFL employees, including Commissioner Roger Goodell
Oops. But, this gets kind of absurd when you take into account the argument/spin that he offers up as explanation.
“I’m not very good at these machines, and I hit the wrong button,” Zierlein said. “There’s nothing else to say.”
So, he managed to attach a file and select multiple users and sent it all…with just one button? Even if he had hit reply to all it would presume that the email had been sent to all the affected parties in the first place.
Ah…ah…AH…CHOOOOOOOOOOO
Sorry, allergic to bullshit.
Users have to exercise common sense in the office they work in. In the vast majority of fortune 500 companies in North America, for example, a large percentage of these actively monitor emails of their employees.
Rather than rehash what someone else has written previously. I invite you to read a piece that was written by Mark Rasch last year. Here is an excerpt:
Let’s suppose you are an employer. You have a well-written and well distributed policy on privacy in the workplace. You expressly state that employees have NO expectation of privacy in ANYTHING they do. You own the hardware, you own the software, you own the network. You reserve the right to monitor every keystroke, every website, every e-mail, every IM session, every chat discussion, and even monitor the lyrics to any song they happen to be listening to on their iPods (sounds like a fun place to work, doesn’t it?).
People…you are being watched. Even if you want to send some funny/pornographic/off colour video/joke/chain letter to someone you work with…don’t. I will slap you.
[tags]Email Monitoring, Surveillance, Privacy[/tags]