I am at a loss as to how to handle the onslaught of junk email that is routinely sent internally throughout my company by fellow employees including the executive staff and mostly the CFO, my boss.
This morning I received yet another “John 3:16, Jesus Loves You, forward this to ten people” chain letter email with the animated graphics and all that crap.
The first issue I have with these is the Network Admin side of me that is annoyed that these emails go all over my network, clogging up my servers and taking up space. They are in violation of the company’s acceptable use policy and are generally a big waste of company time.
The second issue is my personal opinion that these emails are both offensive and inappropriate in the workplace. The top executives are sending emails throughout the company pushing their religious beliefs on subordinates asking them to come to Jesus.
I have mentioned my issue to various managers in the past, including my boss, requesting they remove me from their mass mail lists yet the emails continue. I have filters setup in Outlook, but many emails still get through because I can’t get too strict with my filtering without missing some actual business related emails.
I do not really have the desire to make a major issue of this but I would like it to stop. Any suggestions?
