E-mail Etiquette

The new office headquarters is very much different than it was in the LGBT Center on Market but it is making a home for itself. The place is still kind of in shambles but offices are getting slowly redone.

Today I found something interesting as it has never really happened to me in my professional job. There was a strong of e-mail going around the office which wasn't necessarily professional. It started with an e-mail from someone asking for certain tasks to be done. As the string grew longer, it turned into a more casual kind of talk. Some jokes were passed around which have offended some staff members. The Executive direct came to speak about proper e-mail etiquette in the workplace. It was explained how things like this can be spread to people it was not meant to be. She also warmed that e-mail sent from the office is also backed up on their servers.

I guess I always thought it was common sense to not write personal things in the workplace. This was a wake up call that people should watch what they write in a professional environment. Luckily no one lost their job over this e-mail debacle.