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Document Retention And E-mail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-goes-around-comes-around dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "An interesting column by Jim Carroll about email within companies, document retention, how hard it is to actually get rid of an email, and how all of this can come back to bite you later on. "

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  1. CYA by Ratbert42 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I had a boss that would never e-mail me about anything important. Anything that could come back to bite him in the ass was done in person or over the phone, never in writing. Learned a lot from that jackass.

    I also have always kept replicated copies of all my work e-mail. Want to see my boss from 4 years ago telling me to forge timesheets to bill more hours to a certain customer? It's in there. Want to see a pornographic joke from half my coworkers? I've got them.

    Cover your own ass. I assure you that your bosses are covering theirs.