We have someone new at our company and he receives emails from his friends at his previous jobs. These guys are all professionals, civil engineers and such. The other day he received one on our COMPANY email that was obviously pornographic showing two people having sex and one of them was a transvestite. Is there a way to filter this stuff out?
2006-11-03 02:06:39 · 13 answers · asked by TxMom 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I'm not being nosy, I'm the one responsible here for our email, although I'm not IT. If my big boss found out, it would be my *** for not stopping it. On the other hand, I don't want to offend the guy. His email goes to a public computer as does everyone's here. All employees email goes to one computer, so it's not like I went in his office and checked it. Gimme a break!
2006-11-03 02:13:31 · update #1
I work for a pretty small company (50 employees) and we do not have a specific internet use policy. It only states that all emails can be checked at any time.
2006-11-03 02:15:34 · update #2
Ok, the boss is the one who showed it to me....he said "if I could handle it"......so what the heck am I supposed to do? I am the office manager
2006-11-03 02:22:39 · update #3
Sounds like from the amount of people saying to not be a tattle tale, they must be receiving these kinds of emails at work too?
2006-11-03 02:24:17 · update #4
Shania, I wasn't talking about you.
2006-11-03 06:54:24 · update #5
If he was showing everyone, that could be considered harassment. If that is not the case, as long as nothing is stated about this in the employee handbook, there is not much that can be done. How did you see it?
If there is no policy against this kind of thing, what do you expect. People need clear cut rules. Just because you think it is wrong does not make it wrong. You can ask him to quit reading or having them send the email to him. He does not have to though. If he is fired for it, you will be in a world of hurt. You probably need to make a policy change and let everyone know.
Tell your boss that there needs to be a policy change. As I said before, you can ask him to refrain from those kind of email. He does not have to though. In all likelihood he will. Sounds to me like you may need to make an employee handbook if you don't have one already.
2006-11-03 02:13:11 · answer #1 · answered by chuck g 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me like its time for the boss to change his policy. If he's not willing to do this, he needs to ignore it and get over it. I would almost GUARANTEE this guy is not the only person receiving emails that would offend somebody in some way. It sucks you've been put in this situation, but I think your answer lies within the boss, not the new guy.
2006-11-03 02:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by kittenshark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very tough one.. at best he/she can ask the sysadmin to block the id from which the mail in question came.. but then again, one can always create new emale id's.. i am 100% sure that somehow or the other he/she had used the company email while signing on some dubious site
2006-11-03 02:12:07 · answer #3 · answered by guruji9x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey girl. Do you want to keep your job? try to close your eyes.. you're not the boss, leave it up to him/her to get caught.
Thats the best advice, I'm not being rude, just speaking the truth. There are times in life where we just need to close our eyes, this is one of them times.
actually to answer your reply. I DON'T work! not in an office, and have my own computer.. so sorry you're wrong there.
How do you know that the boss don't do it himself, and said it was alright? if you start telling him things like that, he may begin to think you are trying to have someone fired.
For your own sake, just let it be.
You are the manager? FIRE HIM. and go to the higher ups about it.
2006-11-03 02:19:15 · answer #4 · answered by Jas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is considered harassment even if he isn't showing it to others, how? simply because its been seen, my husband had this happen at his work. Let human resources deal with it, they shouldn't say who let them know just that it is known that he is receiving inappropriate material at work and if the wrong person see it or finds out there could be sexual harassment complaints brought up against him.....
Good Luck!
2006-11-03 02:17:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take him to one side and tell him that the company does not advocate this kind of thing.
If you are his boss then tell him it must stop, Now.
If you are not his boss then don't ignore it as you will be implicated, if you knew about it and did not report it.
Does your boss know you are on "Answers"?
Check your companies policy on computer usage.
2006-11-03 02:12:27 · answer #6 · answered by Bladerunner (Dave) 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You should try email tracker to identify the orgin of the emails and
report it to the respective persons/authorities
http://www.fraudaid.com/security_products/categories/utilities/emailtrackerpro.htm
official site:
http://www.emailtrackerpro.com/
you can also try a server based Bayesian spam filter like spam assassin (tell your system admin to set it up)
reference:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/
download
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
2006-11-03 02:33:41 · answer #7 · answered by anniyan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are his supervisor, I don't know why it is any of your business! If he is showing everyone and making it a distraction or
If it's your responsibility then you have to stop it and/or report it. If you are in a position of responsibility, you can't worry about offending him! Just tell him he needs to limit his personal e-mails. If that doesn't work, then tell him you have seen the porn and it must stop!
2006-11-03 02:17:10 · answer #8 · answered by startwinkle05 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i assume Yahoo! grew to become to the dark area and bought your email handle, or something became hacked. Block their addresses, mark as junk mail, and likewise edit your junk mail settings so your junk mail folder is vehicle-emptied whilst a junk mail email reaches it.
2016-10-03 06:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask him to forward you a copy. Yes there is a program that you get that will filter out anything that you wish.
2006-11-03 02:17:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋