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Can anyone think of a reason the organizers would have decided to use workplace email for this?

• CydeWeys 7y ago
  One obvious reason is, it's easiest. I hardly know anyone's private contact info, but of course you can always look up colleagues' work emails in the corporate directory. And a large part of organizing is bringing people into the fold, so you'd still need to be organizing at work somehow, even if all you're doing is asking for external communications methods to continue the conversation. There's a much higher drop rate that way though.
• idlewords 7y ago
  My understanding is it's not just email, but internal message boards. Absolutely fine for gaining an audience, but the discussion should immediately move elsewhere.
• silversconfused 7y ago
  It's honest. It's transparent. It's trusting. And it's protected by the law and could easily accounted for during discovery for a lawsuit (not a lawyer, do not play one on tv either).
  • idlewords 7y ago
    Being transparent and trusting towards your employer is fine as long as your efforts are ineffective. Once they start to have an impact, it helps not to be totally reliant on your opponent for your ability to hurt them. Legal protections are not very helpful in a context where the other party has unlimited legal resources and time is not on your side.