What are the consequences of inappropriate e-mail?

What are the consequences of inappropriate e-mail?

Tim Burress (E-mail Etiquette and Organization Specialist) gives expert video advice on: What are the consequences of inappropriate e-mail?; Can I retract an e-mail I send? and more...

The consequences of inappropriate e-mail are all around us today in the papers. Perfect examples are where people put into an e-mail emotional things about a love triangle, like we saw with NASA, emotions like we saw with Gonzalez and the firing of the judges. Brown with the EPA and Katrina, e-mails that transpired there. Mark Foley with the e-mails that he was doing in Washington. Those are all examples that have involed a lot of people, a lot of time, a lot of litigation that ultimately go back, again to e-mail and go back to things that perhaps, should not have been put into e-mail.