Brett Favre’s [alleged] issues with text messages in His one tumultuous year with the New York Jets, reminded me of post I made a few months ago. The point of the post is never put anything in writing in a business context that you would be embarrassed to have read in court . . . because it may be. The post is below.
A supervisor actually wrote that line in an email to a woman he was supervising, as the woman was preparing to take medical leave to have surgery. I came across this email while working on employment discrimination case. Imagine that, an employer with a supervisor like this one getting sued for employment discrimination!?! It happened, I defended the employer. Here is the full email exchange:
Female Employee: Just reminding you I will be gone from tomorrow through the 14th, on medical leave. I know I will be missed J Hope I have a job when I come back!
Supervisor: You will have a job when you come back . . . it may be as my mistress, but you will have a job.
This exchange teaches two lessons:
- Don’t write anything you would be embarrassed for your wife, husband, mother to read.
- If you must write it, remember it could be read in court some day or even worse be published to the world through the Web.
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