E-Mail Scrutiny: Toiling Under The Yoke Of The Man

I’ve been given a heads up that our e-mail accounts at work will be under increased scrutiny “for both quantity and content.” This came in both the form of a general corporate mass mailing and, more recently, a statement from my manager. Normally I would just blow off the corporate mass mailing and pay only slightly more attention to it coming from my manager, but in a department that consists of 90 people who were told last week that 30 were being laid-off, I don’t find it hard to put two and two together. If The Man is looking for a way to make some otherwise tough decisions, what better way to narrow down the field than by taking a few people off the books by firing them for improper use of company assets?

I was told the “occasional personal e-mail” is ok, just please keep them clean going to my work account. Greg and I are probably the only ones that have to worry about the quantity as some days we go on long e-mail marathons. As a result, I might be making more use of this blog to just babble during the day. Dan, do you know of any obscure Internet hosted e-mail sites that might work, bturnip adminstered or otherwise? They have firewalls that prevent us from accessing all the big ones, so I can’t get into my Yahoo mail or anything like that from work.