Racially Insensitive Emails Revealed at Government Agency
The New York Times recently reported on the transmittal of e-mails circulated to and from the e-mail accounts of at least 20 secret service supervisors which included racially insensitive remarks.
The ease with which written statements are transmitted through e-mail has resulted in loose and thoughtless material being transmitted that has no place in rational and thoughtful communication in the workplace. The abuse has reached proportions so vast that there is hardly any litigation in which e-mails are not included as exhibitions. If we could point to one specific area that requires greater thought and, in some instances, more detailed supervision, it would be with the freedom with which e-mails are transmitted. There is hardly a case tried in a court where e-mails do not have a material and significant effect.
