By Brad on Dec 5, 2008 in FYI, The Internets, Worth Considering | comments(0)
Ron Sylvester, who blogs at What the Judge Ate for Breakfast, looks at “the kinds of emails that get you in trouble.”
My wife says you should never put anything in a company e-mail that you don’t want to be shown to 12 strangers on a big movie screen. She practices employment law, including sexual harassment lawsuits, and she said you wouldn’t believe what people put in e-mails that end up being shown to juries in public courtrooms.
… Searching electronic archives of company e-mails and files is becoming an increasingly useful tool for lawyers involved in lawsuits against you or your boss. It’s called “e-discovery.”
Sylvester references Roger Matus‘ list of phrases that lawyers and investigators search for.
- “I could get into trouble for telling you this, but…”
- “Delete this email immediately.”
- “I really shouldn’t put this in writing.”
- “Don’t tell So-and-So.” Or, “Don’t send this to So-and-So.”
- “She/He/They will never find out.”
- “We’re going to do this differently than normal.”
- “I don’t think I am supposed to know this, but…”
- “I don’t want to discuss this in e-mail. Please give me a call.”
- “Don’t ask. You don’t want to know.”
- “Is this actually legal?”
By Brad on Nov 30, 2008 in Blogosphere, Making a Difference, Quoteworthy, The Internets, The World, Worth Considering | comments(0)
Brian Ulrich writes:
…blogs have allowed women to participate openly in the same political sphere as men, even in highly segregated societies such as Saudi Arabia. That is certainly true. In societies with high internet penetration, blogs can have a democratizing, community-building function. Although we’ve seen this in the United States, its occurrence in politically closed societies such as Bahrain is significant because of the nexus of people it can bring together in certain types of interactions. I don’t know all the ramifications that the term “public sphere” has in political science, but it sounds like a local one may have emerged in certain Gulf states of a type that would have been unlikely prior to the internet.
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(H/T: Daily Dish)
By Brad on Sep 25, 2008 in Inbox, Stupid Things, The Internets, The World | comments(0)
Another email I received today after the one I posted earlier…
Sir
I want to invite you to partner with me in a financially rewarding and expansive business transaction;this partnership and its resulting growth, will positively affect a lot of lives and empower a lot of youth,widows,sick people and orphans in the third world.
I look foward to hearing from you and especially you consent after I give you the full details of our project,Please send me your telephone contact for expedient communication.
Vincent Thabo
By Brad on Sep 25, 2008 in Inbox, Stupid Things, The Internets, The World | comments(0)
I post emails like these partly because they humor me and partly because they annoy me… and I always like to share those things that are humorous and/or annoying…
This mail has been sent by misszaina via Forums
From : Zaina Ishaaq ismail
Hello Dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.
Afer you receive this mail kindly contact me on my private Email contact below. Introducing myself, I am Zaina Ishaaqismail , the Only Daughter of the late Ishaaq ismail
, my father was a gold and cocoa mercahnt based in accra , ghana and Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips recetly.
Before his death, He called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $6.500,000USD deposited in one of the prime bank here in abidjan ivory coast , that he used my name for the next of kin in depositing of the fund.
E-mail address above ( princesseszaina1985@rocketmail.com) Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Awaiting your urgent reply
Regards
Zaina Ishaaq ismail
Reply to my private e-mail box below: ( princesseszaina1985@rocketmail.com )
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Quite often, I reply to the private e-mail box and let them know that I would not be able to assist them with this matter, but I would forward to someone who can, the U.S. Attorney General. I know it’s probably ineffective, but it makes me feel a little better!
By Brad on Jun 16, 2008 in Mythbuster, The Internets, Things That Make You Shake Your Head | comments(0)
Just like many other people, I am the recipient of many, many forwarded emails with stories that are deemed to be so important that they “must” be passed on to everyone else I know. Typically, stories include the phrases “not a joke” and/or “this is true” are a tipoff that they are just another viral myth.
After receiving one this morning (from a well-meaning friend), I thought I would start a new ongoing “mythbuster” feature on this blog in which I check out suspect stories and share the results here. The first story to kick this inaugural edition is…
The Budweiser Story
(not a joke)
This is TRUE!
How Budweiser handled those who laughed at those who died on the 11th of September, 2001…
Thought you might like to know what happened in a little town north of Bakersfield , California . After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and people around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York , Pennsylvania , and the Pentagon.
Continued
