Office email is just for communication and for business use, but some of the so called leads in the team misuse their email and send foolish content in their email.
In the year 2006 we were working in an office in Augusta, Bangalore. One of the so called lead use to irritate every team member in the team by cursing individuals in the team and using harsh words in his email above all he will copy the entire distribution list and the client people as well.
Once he sent an email to the whole distribution list copying the System Out logs, using Times New Roman, with size 18, bold, he has typed "System.out.println()" in Red color and saying "i am tired of telling this to you guys don't put System.out.println in the java code, you guys are doing it again, remove them asap", this mail was copied to the client manager as well, seeing this email the whole team was stressed and depressed. On the other hand what the client manager will think about the team? this guy went to onsite from our company and degrading the team in front of the client from onsite. How come client will have confidence in the team?
On another occasion, he want to save his friend staying with him in Charlotte, NC, so he sent a list of concerns with me in his email, putting false blame on me for which his friend was responsible for, and copying the whole group. Later i came to know the issue was caused by his friend staying with him.
This guy is a classic example for poisonous team member, he used his office mail mostly for cursing the team and never used for constructive purpose. This sort of guys in the team are poisonous to the team and they kill the morale of the team instead of boosting it, because of him so many team members left the job and moved to other companies.
This guy lacked the basic culture and doesn't know the email etiquette, even though he can code in java, he can't do and deliver the whole project by himself, he thinks he is the one doing everything in the team, but its not the case, each and every member in the team is responsible for the success of the project and contributed from their part, he never understood the feelings of the individuals, he treated every member in the team as a bonded labor.
The HR team in the company should take strong action against such poisonous team members in the team and save the organization from this foolish people.
Lets use office email for the purpose its meant for, every member in the team is valuable lets not hurt or offend the team members by using harsh words. Words once uttered can never be taken back and they will leave a lasting scar on the person who received it.
