Good Monday morning, Russell,
“I can’t believe you wrote that in an email.”
It’s bad enough when your friend or colleague tells you that.
But what happens when your email is tweeted, passed around online, and ridiculed by some of the nastier people you’ve never met?
Perhaps you wrote something a little unkind, or impolitic, or snide. Or, worse yet, you wrote something that reveals that you need to review your moral bearings in the world — it was harmful, crass, prejudiced or offensive.
Your mother might have told you “don’t put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.”
In today’s social media world, you should assume that everything you write in email, post on Facebook, or tweet, will eventually end up on the screen of the person in the whole world who you would like to see it least.
Because whoever is the most embarrassing person in the world to see what you just wrote, is online too.
And they’re going to see it. As will all your future employers, customers, colleagues, and friends.
So for the New Year, make a new promise to yourself, to never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever send embarrassing emails
Marc Cenedella
My response:
Who cares what people say or think on the Internet? An employer that scans that kind of crap and nitpicks a person to death like the thought police is a huge red flag for someone whom I don’t want anything to do with let alone work for. It’s the Internet. People say stupid shit all day, every day. Their opinions, outlook, mood, viewpoints and situations can change by the second. Anyone that doesn’t understand that should take a hard look in the mirror because they are too uptight and everyone makes mistakes. Especially them. The only difference between mistakes that are published online and the idiotic things that people do when they think no one is watching, is that someone was watching. How many idiotic things do you do every day that someone could criticize you for? How would you feel if you got outed for it?
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