Another week and another viral email. This week, I received another email that appears to have gone viral across some of the world’s largest financial, legal and professional service companies.
The email was sent to me with the instructions: read from the bottom then check out the attachments.
I’ve had a little think about publishing the images and text here on BusinessChic that are presented as being an email a grad sent to his colleagues on his first day at work. However keeping in mind that the email is currently the subject of an internal investigation, I’m choosing instead to direct you to that link.
Did you receive the email yourself? My immediate response was to slam the sender. I’ll be honest and tell you that I’d actually read the cleo article attached in the email and I found the arrogance of the voice portrayed in that little questionnaire so distasteful that I was tempted at the time to say so on Twitter, but didn’t. Then I received this viral email – and started my WTF!? However I then noticed that his email was sent back in July but that it didn’t seem to have gotten out of his company until October, this raised my suspicions… Further investigation – i.e. asking my friends on Facebook – led to a friend sending me a private message that Cannon was a friend of his and that this was a prank played by Cannon’s colleagues…
Boom tick? However Cannon’s rock-star credentials got out, at this stage it’s a timely reminder to make sure that you lock your workstations when you leave your desk! In my old workplace, I recall seniors playing much lighter pranks on junior staff in order to remind them to lock their workstations; particularly when out at clients.
Know any other stories of pranks played on un-locked workstations? Please share 🙂
