Re: Dodging the damage from talk and tweets
ProfR
6/8/2011 12:37:18 PM
I was just at a meeting where a partner in a legal firm said that most of the fodder for lawsuits today is in email. Even thought most companies tell people to be careful what they say, this often does not transfer to what people put in email. They often think this is private communications. It often is not. Email can be easily be forwarded to others and it can be used in discovery if there are lawsuits.
Re: Re : Dodging the Damage From Talk & Tweets
Tenacious
6/8/2011 6:46:09 AM
Sure-technology goes both ways. But so does electricity. Use it correctly and it improves your life. Use it carelessly and you can kill yourself.
Re : Dodging the Damage From Talk & Tweets
yalanand
6/8/2011 12:12:53 AM
Noreen,
I agree with your point that little technology a dangerous thing but then again there are lot of advantages as well. Lets not forget the role of social networking played in the Arab Uprising. Technology can be used for good as well.
Like they say, once its on the internet, yo can't take it back. Congressman Weiner's "gaffe" shouldn't be a career-ender, and I think that looking at this current trend, a lot of other high profile figures may end up making a mistake or two in the future.
Just like Jim Tressel. The cover up got him fired, not the acts of his players. If he would have been honest that he made a mistake from the beginning he would still be coach today.
Re: integrity or intelligence
Value Hiker
6/7/2011 2:17:38 PM
Thanks for the information, Fred. I love history as much as investment. But I just can not say that I will never make the similar mistake. So I have no right to joke about Ms. Palin.
Re: integrity or intelligence
Fred Goodman
6/7/2011 1:57:10 PM
It is even more egregious when you realize that truth is not important to many in the media. Sarah Palin was correct -- see the LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/sarah-palin-says-paul-revere-warned-the-british.html
But the media doesn't care. They have an agenda and will twist the truth and lie if it suits them.
integrity or intelligence
Value Hiker
6/7/2011 1:25:12 PM
Mr. Weiner shall remember what Mark Twain said "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.". If he planed to lie, he shall remember everything, include all the tweets he sent to the ladies he never met (or claimed so).
For these people who criticized Paulin, I am curious how many of them can gurantee they will never make similar mistakes.
The worst guy you can have in Washington is an intelligent one with no integrity. I prefer Palin because at least I know she is not so harmful.
weiner
AskAsa
6/7/2011 12:26:40 PM
Weiner should have read this story first.
Gangster Stories
The publisher of the only daily newspaper in a medium sized midwestern town launched an old style newspaper crusade against the evils of slot machines. The gangsters who ran the slot rackets were upset. In the late 40's there was no real competing media so the only daily newspaper had plenty of clout and could destroy the slot business.
As the story goes they followed the publisher to a convention in Chicago and lined him up with a hundred dollar a night whore. (No doubt quite a prize in those days) They secretly photographed him in a number of very compromising positions with the woman.
Next week they visited his newspaper office to urge him to call off the anti slot parade or else. Slamming the compromising photos on his desk, showing him up close and personal in every position imaginable, they of course threatened to share the photos with his wife.
The publisher smirked, rang his intercom and said "Honey come in here." The vuluptous Mrs Publisher entered the room, the photos caught her eye immediately and she started oohing ahhing - cooing about how cute her husband looked in such positions. She asked the gangsters to make copies for her collection. With nowhere to go and no competing media to turn to - the would be blackmailers left with their tails between their legs.
As it turned out the wife had been a five hundred dollar a night hooker the publisher had bedded and later wedded. They were both quite kinky.
Moral to the story?
Only that which we hide can harm us. Had Weiner just admitted to tweets with pretty girls. Agreed to stop, get counseling, renew his vows, . If he would have cast himself as a guy who's dumb stick made him do a dumb thing- it would have never gone this far. It's rarely the crime - but the attempt to cover up that brings a downfall. Claiming he was hacked etc just threw gasoline on the fire.
By the way the publisher / hooker story was told to me by an old time gangster I interviewed and he swore it was true.
Re: Dodging the damage from talk and tweets
erierunner
6/7/2011 12:06:13 PM
Most companies do have policies around what you can say about the company in public. It is difficult to single out just social media. The ACLU is waiting for those restrictions. You can monitor words, actions, and behaviors but controlling lives is a fine line.
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