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That's why we got training at Google that more or less told us not to put these kinds of things in writing. Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence.
by eru 3mo ago
That's why we got training at Google that more or less told us not to put these kinds of things in writing.
Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence.
- Scoundreller 3mo agoAnd the O in RTO stands for Oral-communication-only
- lukan 3mo ago"Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence." Were you told this literally?
- eru 3mo agoIt's a common joke, but it's not something you would find literally in the Google-internal official material. They ain't that stupid. The joke ain't Google specific, I might have picked it up working in finance. If you bing the phrase, you'll find plenty of hits in published articles.
- shrikant 3mo agoYeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspaper headline".
- red-iron-pine 3mo ago"assume your mother, and/or the courts, will read it." was the version I heard
- DonsDiscountGas 3mo agoAnd the s stands for secure