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[surfnole]

This may be RC territory, but how stupid or brazen do you need to be to conduct work via private email? Even way down the food chain, I clearly understand that I could get in trouble and potentially lose my job if I were to send work emails from my gmail account. My company would have no sympathy if I was ignorant of corporate policy.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Remember who you're talking about.

 

[96Nole]

Happens all the time. Email server is down, or can't get access to company email where you are. I got an email from the CFO of the company I work for the other day. It was from his personal email account because he doesn't have the work email on his iPad. Same thing happened with the HR person last year when she was on vacation and an employee needed to be fired and couldn't wait until she got back. She didn't have her work laptop with her that day and she needed to be able to review all the documentation.
Your email domain ends up on a block list used by your client/vendor's spam blocker. Can be a real pain in the butt to get it removed. Until then use a domain that's not on the list, most likely a personal account.

 

[Bartdog]

Happens all the time. Email server is down, or can't get access to company email where you are. I got an email from the CFO of the company I work for the other day. It was from his personal email account because he doesn't have the work email on his iPad. Same thing happened with the HR person last year when she was on vacation and an employee needed to be fired and couldn't wait until she got back. She didn't have her work laptop with her that day and she needed to be able to review all the documentation.
Your email domain ends up on a block list used by your client/vendor's spam blocker. Can be a real pain in the butt to get it removed. Until then use a domain that's not on the list, most likely a personal account.

1. Who in the C-suite doesn't have their work email on their tablet? That's just crazy to me.

2. What company are you working for that people would actively block?

 

[DFSNOLE]

Tread carefully here.

 

[96Nole]

1. Who in the C-suite doesn't have their work email on their tablet? That's just crazy to me.
2. What company are you working for that people would actively block?

He doesn't want it on his iPad. I'm not going to argue with him.

It was another company I worked for a couple years ago. A spammer was blasting out spam with our domain in the From field. People that received it were reporting it to their online spam blocking service. ( I think it was Barracuda) A couple of our customers and vendors used the same online spam blocking service and thus our email was blocked from them. Major pain to get off the list. Until then our salespeople used their personal email accounts. Business can't stop when you're dealing with $10's to $100's of thousands of dollars in sales per order.

 

[LT4PLY]

He doesn't want it on his iPad. I'm not going to argue with him.

It was another company I worked for a couple years ago. A spammer was blasting out spam with our domain in the From field. People that received it were reporting it to their online spam blocking service. ( I think it was Barracuda) A couple of our customers and vendors used the same online spam blocking service and thus our email was blocked from them. Major pain to get off the list. Until then our salespeople used their personal email accounts. Business can't stop when you're dealing with $10's to $100's of thousands of dollars in sales per order.

If that happens again just pick up another domain and add it to the server. This way it stays at work, goes to the same inbox, and costs little to nothing.

 

[96Nole]

If that happens again just pick up another domain and add it to the server. This way it stays at work, goes to the same inbox, and costs little to nothing.

Good idea for the future. But I think those services are now checking IP addresses and not just the domain name. That's what ultimately got us off the list. I don't remember exactly what I had to do but essentially I had to prove our IP address was ours and that our server was not an open relay server. We were put on the list just because of our domain name on those spam email.

 

[surfnole]

You are talking about a one-off situation. Conducting regular business through your private email ranks up there with surfing porn at work on your work PC, making false charges on your expense account, using the company car for personal errands etc. If you are a CFO for a private company, you might get away with it. For most people it would get them written up to HR and fired depending on the extent of the offense

 

[tolkien1]

This should go well.

 

[ggmike1992]

Work and private are separate and never the two shall meet. The last thing I want to do at home is anything work related.

 

[SoddyNole]

 

[goldmom]

I don't want any of my clients knowing my personal email address. And don't want too many knowing my cell phone number either. It just means I'm never "off".

 

[tommynole3476]

but how stupid or brazen do you need to be to conduct work via private email?

No more or less than Colin Powell I suppose...

 

[SeaPA]

No more or less than Colin Powell I suppose...

Or Gov. Scott & his high-level staff