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(The first, and hopefully the last, in a series.)
Dear Third-Way Manny:
I'm the CEO of an enormous American company. I recently hired someone, let's call her him Bartleby, to run the critical group which is responsible for our partnership agreements with other huge companies. He came highly recommended, although I couldn't actually figure out what he'd done to earn such impressive accolades. But he seemed to be a fighter and a winner, so I hired him.
A most unusual thing occurred his first day on the job! During training on how to use our email system, Bartleby simply declined to use our email system, saying plainly "I would prefer not to." Instead, Bartleby announced that he'd use only his personal email address (bartleby@ifwecandoitformarcrichwecandoitforyou.com) for all corporate correspondence, and further - are you sitting down? - that his personal email would be hosted from a computer in his basement!
This seemed a little unusual, and perhaps risky. For example, we have a policy of retaining company email to ensure that we comply with audit laws, but Bartleby would not hear of it. "I would prefer not to. Instead, I'll sort through my personal emails after I am no longer in your employ, and send to you those I deem to be yours."
Certainly, from time to time some of our employees use personal email for business, say, when they need something to get through our highly-secure networks that sometimes prevent attachments from going in or out. But to totally refuse to use our email system? As the kids say these days, WTF?
Third-Way Manny, as the CEO of an enormous corporation, I'm certainly not one of the Lumpenproletariat that are normally becalmed by your concise and mellifluous explanations using only small words. But still, I admire your incredible wisdom, insight, and lightning disco-moves; and today I seek your good counsel: What am I to do about Bartleby and his unusual demands around using email?
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Dear Reader,
There's nothing wrong, or even suspicious, about what Bartleby wants to do -frankly, only a Lumpenprole would use a business email address for business email. The real question is why are you totally obsessed with hating on Bartleby over something that happens all the time? A hatred so unwarranted, so desperate, and so intense, it can only stem from something to do with private parts.
Regards,
Third-Way Manny
hunter
(38,303 posts)If you want to look at private parts then http://www.reddit.com/r is your best bet.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)All others are a disappointment.
Regards,
TWM
hunter
(38,303 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Regards,
TWM
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,824 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts).com
GusBob
(7,286 posts)"But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous"
--H Melville
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Now where were we... now I remember, I was was wondering how a town gets an enema. Each person gets an enema, or a single enormous flush running through Main Street?
Please, enlighten us.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Autumn
(44,984 posts)The NSA has their backs. If she, I mean if Bartleby overlooks something someone at the NSA can send it off to whomever.
Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)I'm not buying it.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)of a black hole.
Quick! Quick!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I once hired A Mr Ben Gazzi as a bartender for a party. All he could make was this sort of rancid tea. Very disappointing, nasty aftertaste and it made me halucinate for a while after trying it.
QC
(26,371 posts)What's he been up to lately?
bluesbassman
(19,361 posts)Great character actor.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)NSAserver
(3 posts)....slurp.....
thread info, retrieved.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)even kids are literally wizards in the use of all this new technical stuff. So rather than ask for some training, which might have made him look sort of unfit for the job, in his opinion, not necessarily anyone else's, he simply chose to say he 'would prefer' to use his own. email. That way he looked like he was in command of the situation.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R!