Sexist Email Scandal

Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC) has taken a hit in the PR front this week when an inappropriate privately circulated email went public!

"The email was originally shared by 17 male colleagues, discussing the physical merits of 13 new female workers, thought to have joined recently as trainee accountants or associates.

The email, complete with photos of the women, had the subject line ‘this would be my shortlist for the top 10’.

Yowsers!  At a previous company I worked for, over a dozen employee's were sacked for exchanging sexually explicit emails - some were very long term employee's.  

We've all been there - opened up an email sent from a friend only to find something really rude, crude or offensive on the screen.  If they are funny - they can actually make my day but I'm not easily offended.

The point is not to forward it on.  I have another friend who keeps sending me those emails warning about how illegal immigrants are stealing jobs, being given free cars, and luxury mansions whilst the rest of us struggle here on .. well.. struggle street.   Scary undertones in those emails - I keep looking for swastikas at the bottom. 

And then my other non-favourite email (other than spam) are those 'pass this on' ones.  They are either fictitious warnings or hoax's.  Some that stick in my memory..

• Send this email to ten friends, and you will receive a new (laptop, blackberry, Iphone) etc.
• If you are being mugged at the ATM, put your pin number in backwards.  This will notify the police.  (Unless your pin number is like..  1111... in which case.. your screwed).
• Backpackers waking up in a bath full of ice and a note that says 'Ring the police now'..   Someone really should check out that 'Organs 'R' Us' store.. some really shady characters work there..
• Send this email to make the Make a Wish Foundation and they will give 1$ to little jimmy... (this one made me a bit mad.. people... let's keep the not for profits out of our little games okay??).
•  If you don't send this email to 10 friends, you don't support the troops in Iraq. (Really?  What about those people who didn’t get the email? What about those people who don't have 10 friends.. or Nana who doesn’t know how to forward on?  Dam Communists the lot of em!)

I usually reply to these emails with the appropriate reference from Snopes.com - but probably to no avail.

 Let's face it - if an email is any good, it will get forwarded on.  If it needs to tell you to pass on to all your friends - it's probably full of lies, tripe or superstitious mumbo jumbo.  TRASH IT!