The internet can be your friend or foe. Just remember, it is public. Once it is out there, you’ve lost control of what can get forwarded, read, or copied.
This person got out of it ok, I guess you can say. Not without angst, legal fees, heartache, etc. Maybe the settlement is worth it. Pretty high price to pay… Here’s the post from Mashable.
An excerpt: The National Labor Relations Board and Dawnmarie Souza agreed yesterday to end a lawsuit over Souza’s firing, which occurred after she made some derogatory remarks about her employers on Facebook.
What’s the lesson? Don’t criticize the hand that feeds you publicly, and especially on line. Better yet, don’t criticize ‘em at all. If you don’t like your job, either work to change it so that you do, or find another job.
Urgent e-mails are toxic. For a workgroup to truly get anything done, everyone in that workgroup needs to stop using e-mail urgently. The best rule of thumb is that if anything is needed in under three hours, either pick up the phone, or visit. We have designed three different posters which say the same thing — “If you need it in less than three hours, pick up the phone!”
Click here to select the poster color combinations that work best for you.
Here is a sample:
According to emailreplies.com…
The first step in professionalizing your email communications is to publish a corporate email policy. This email policy accomplishes three objectives:
Commercial objective: in teaching employees how to send effective emails and stating target answering times, you can professionalize your email replies and therefore gain competitive advantage.
Productivity objective: by setting out rules for the personal use of email you can improve productivity and avoid misunderstandings.
Legal objective: in clearly stating what is considered as inappropriate email content you can minimize the risk of law suits and minimize employer’s liability by showing that the company warned employees of inappropriate email use.
For more details on how to satisfy these goals when you create an email policy, read more from emailreplies.com by clicking here.
Urgent Business Forms has made available sample e-mail, Internet, and computer usage policies for businesses to consider.
They offer an 18 page preview of the employee handbook on their website. Although a preview, that 18 pages has some good stuff, including email policies. Here is the link for the sample.
If you’re a business, you need a policy. ‘Nuff said.
