Why Email is like a Gun
All guns are always loaded... never let the muzzle cover anything you're not willing to destroy...
Some CTV employees got an accidental -- and personal -- edition of eTalk Thursday night.You've just gotta love the bloodless, "whistle while you work", Dilbert-esque human resources dynamic that's in play here.
Employees at Canada's largest private broadcaster's building in Agincourt were sent an e-mail by Dawn Fell, CTVglobemedia's vice-president of human resources, that revealed some news about upcoming changes in the executive suite.
"There are other departures in addition to (David) Kirkwood -- Ellen Baine, Paul Gratton, Peter Palframan," Fell wrote.
"Do we want to work all these in or leave out anyone who is not part of the long-term future? Neither is a great option. Your thoughts?"
The e-mail was received at 9:38 p.m. and recalled 12 minutes later -- likely in time to yank it out of the inboxes of most workers -- but not those with BlackBerrys.
4 comments:
How do you 'recall' an email?
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joanne... you can pull an email back off an internal company server... so anyone who hasn't downloaded their mail yet won't get it... but blackberries, i believe, are routed through a proprietary access point... you pull the trigger, it's irretrievable.
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Oh, so it's just an internal server option. I've sent out a few that I wished I could have pulled back about a nanosecond after they went out...
CTV deserves the embarrassment though. Schadenfreude . :)
Liberals are proven to be dumb once again...
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