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Give them a call. Walk over to their desk. There's no need to wait, but there's also no need to present things out of context. There are two kinds of compani
by Arainach 6y ago
Give them a call. Walk over to their desk. There's no need to wait, but there's also no need to present things out of context.
There are two kinds of companies: Companies that advise their employees to watch their language on all discoverable mediums, and those that have never been sued before. Most large companies are in the latter group.
In tech, it's much more obvious - unless you're working on hardware, the odds of your code directly posing a threat to life is rather low. The odds that some passionate employees may start a discussion on a large email group discussing ongoing legal action against your company that's been in the news, and that they will say something misinformed that will get quoted out of context, is incredibly high.
Never say anything in an email that you wouldn't want presented out of context in a courtroom. And unless you want all of your emails to be legally mandated to be retained for a few years, I'd avoid talking about anything relevant to ongoing or potential lawsuits over discoverable mediums.
- iguy 6y ago> watch their language on all discoverable mediums, and those that have never been sued Yes I see how this has come about. I'm trying to say that it's not a very healthy place for our society to have ended up. And I'm explicitly not talking about discussing ongoing legal action, or speculating about politics. I'm talking about technical matters, and communication bandwidth between people close to the coalface who may notice some pattern, and people higher up from whom this might be hidden, if the incentives are wrong. Sometimes talking to people in person is the best from all perspectives, sure. But illiterate societies never built jet airliners.