People Who Use Their Work Email Address for Personal Correspondence, Colorado Employee Sends a Racist Email

With Gmail, hotmail, and even aol, you would assume that J.Crew would not be sending ads for its boyfriend merino wool sweaters to an email address with the suffix .gov.

Or that is to say, with the availability of boundary protecting (and free) email accounts, no one needs to rely on their work email to conduct personal business. 

Work email addresses, issued by an employer to employees to conduct professional business, join professional list serves and figure out who is bringing what to the office potluck, are great for many things... Your work email address, for instance, can be used to ask your boss a question about an assignment, or be used to get an update from your interns on the project they are working on. 

On the other hand, work email addresses are not so great for making plans to go out to dinner with old college friends, or for receiving automated reminders to pay your personal credit card, or to do what a Colorado Department of Transportation employee did recently.

The Associated Press by way of the Huffington Post reports that:

A Colorado state employee could be disciplined for sending an e-mail showing President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The 73-year-old Colorado Department of Transportation worker forwarded the e-mail to at least four co-workers and others on Dec. 22 using her state e-mail account.

As Atlantic commentator and blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates put it in her blog entry titled "People Who Use Their Work E-Mail To Send Mass Jokes",

Get a gmail. Takes two seconds. Then you can traffic in all the racist jokes you want.

All social commentary aside, however--

Using a work email address for personal corespondent: They Still Make You?

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