Comments on: Think Before Hitting “Send” http://thewritersbag.com/writing-strategies/think-before-hitting-send Writing tips for the real world. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:20:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Scott http://thewritersbag.com/writing-strategies/think-before-hitting-send/comment-page-1#comment-392 Scott Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:49:29 +0000 http://thewritersbag.com/writing-strategies/think-before-hitting-send#comment-392 Steve: You can also get nailed even when you do think first. At one job my relationship with my supervisor was deteriorating. He sent me an e-mail asking about "project X" and CCd it to the VP above him and the company president. I had good news about "project X" so I put that in an e-mail and hit reply all. I didn't want the bastard to filter my news. The next day I found myself in H.R. and being asked to sign a form saying I messed up by replying to the company president and that I acknowledged the infraction. Apparently she doesn't have time for technical e-mails and I should have known better. I refused to sign it. I told my supervisor that if he didn't want me to e-mail the president he should have BCCd her in the original message. And no, I wasn't aware I wasn't supposed to e-mail the company president. The H.R. manager was clearly uncomfortable with the situation. Clearly I needed to bail and started sending my resume out, but the bastard fired me the following week before I could get out of there. I was so relieved I neglected to negotiate my exit. I should have asked if they'd let me quit. Steve:

You can also get nailed even when you do think first. At one job my relationship with my supervisor was deteriorating. He sent me an e-mail asking about “project X” and CCd it to the VP above him and the company president. I had good news about “project X” so I put that in an e-mail and hit reply all. I didn’t want the bastard to filter my news.

The next day I found myself in H.R. and being asked to sign a form saying I messed up by replying to the company president and that I acknowledged the infraction. Apparently she doesn’t have time for technical e-mails and I should have known better.

I refused to sign it. I told my supervisor that if he didn’t want me to e-mail the president he should have BCCd her in the original message. And no, I wasn’t aware I wasn’t supposed to e-mail the company president. The H.R. manager was clearly uncomfortable with the situation.

Clearly I needed to bail and started sending my resume out, but the bastard fired me the following week before I could get out of there. I was so relieved I neglected to negotiate my exit. I should have asked if they’d let me quit.

]]> By: Mark Newman http://thewritersbag.com/writing-strategies/think-before-hitting-send/comment-page-1#comment-38 Mark Newman Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:32:37 +0000 http://thewritersbag.com/writing-strategies/think-before-hitting-send#comment-38 Great post - this is so entirely true. There is a new company out there called Sendside Networks (I have no affiliation aside from knowing about them). It's basically like FedEx for email in comparison to the postal service. You can take back emails (you really can) and also make it so that a person only has say 20 or 30 seconds to read the email from the time they open it. It is very cool and I recommend it to everyone like me who tends to send regretful emails occasionally. www.sendside.com Mark Newman Great post - this is so entirely true.

There is a new company out there called Sendside Networks (I have no affiliation aside from knowing about them). It’s basically like FedEx for email in comparison to the postal service. You can take back emails (you really can) and also make it so that a person only has say 20 or 30 seconds to read the email from the time they open it. It is very cool and I recommend it to everyone like me who tends to send regretful emails occasionally.

http://www.sendside.com

Mark Newman

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