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Hello Bees,

Maybe this is more of a rant than anything, but man oh man am I sick of stupid inter-office emails that are offensive. I'm not sure if it's a mix between the region I live in or the industry (oil & gas), but people in my company don't seem to understand what is work appropriate and what is not.

Take this week alone for an example. Earlier this week some girl sent around an email describing the difference between the average working joe and the average welfare joe. She finished her email by stating "if you support politicians who are in favour of welfare you are contributing to the down hill spiral of our country!" Her email was full of typos and mis informed information. I'm not meaning a political debate by this post, just my point that this seems a little ridiculous to bring into the work environment. Obviously in a company with over 500 people there will be differing views so why the hell would you ruin my day by spreading your garbage?

Now today it gets worse. We just had a famous CFL (Canadian Football League) player join our sales team after his retirement. There was a giant inter-office email stating this and welcoming him. Well someone replyed with a joke saying, "ya but did he actually play pro?" because they didn't like his former team. This alone was fine, but then a long line of emails ensued and included comments like, "haha ya now he's on the dark side," followed by, "is that a little racial?" when no one was even talking about race etc. etc. To make a long story short the email got a little racist toward the end because this new employee is black and these jokes kept coming! Not to mention we probably have all of about 20 employees out of 500 that aren't white. Way to welcome the guy!

I'm just mad that people are so stubbornt o the point they probably don't even realize they are hurting people's feeling or stepping out of line. I'm actually really surprised our HR hasn't stepped in like they have in the past. It's in our company policy and employee manual that this is strictly against our code of ethics and work practices.

Does anyone else experience stuff like this through inter-office email? I'm wondering how common it is?

It just started happening! I'm not sure if our HR manager is gone or what is going on, but I've been pretty shocked that they allow it to continue as well. Our branch isn't doing too well right now so I can't really complain or it might bring unwanted attention on us or else I would definately be saying something!

Hah I know I just had to share because it seemed crazy to me too....I just needed to hear that this ISNT NORMAL.

@bohemianbailie: Haha that is actually really funny! I can see that happening with my boss...he always thinks everything is soooo funny! lol.

@HolyVowels: It's hard to deal with hey! I hate people like that. We get a lot of racist comments through our offices and job sites all the time because most of our employees are old school white men from tiny northern towns (they aren't all like this, but a lot of them are). Sometimes I wish I could just scream enough is enough people...where has all your tolerance gone??