Should it be legal?

Time for another episode of "should it be legal ?"

Think of it… we're in Philadelphia, no the movie, not the city. And Tom Hanks discovers that the corporate email server is very slow… too slow in fact to receive the document he is trying to emailed to his assistant before the end of statute of limitations was set to expire the next day. Would this count towards illegal discriminatory behavior based on race, age, sexual preference or country of origin?

Actually a more important question to ask is does anybody even care of fairness at work place? Are there any amongst you that would agree to racial discrimination just to receive some shares of stocks or to feed your family? In this time of terrible economic crisis, I think most people in America do not have the liberty to act on concerns of unfairness.

Why has there been more frequent economic crisis? I think I finally know why. It is not because corporate America cannot keep accounts straight or evaluate risk on mortgage loans! The crisis for all practical purposes legalizes discrimination. Everybody is holding their own mouths shut for fear of being seen as against the company.

Is it legal in America to restrict employee work-place internet connections and bandwidth based primarily on race, and place of origin?

Personally, having no law degree, I feel that it is race based preferential treatment and unfairly bias against a certain group based on racial characteristics and place of origin.

Oh, I mean, I know it can't be traced to the company… just like that fax was lost and recovered inexplicably in Philadelphia. But the mere fact of this capability should be announced publicly like when police decides to arrest people they have to say out loud what and why they are doing it. When the company inspects the employee's connections from work place computer and delay it or disrupt it, it must be done in an unbiased way.

Am I, like, the only one?

Dude, am I like the only one under the sun who don't know who or how emails are being "unsent" ?

The symptom is this: I type the email, hit send, it goes away. Next day (or several days later), I become aware that recipient did not receive the email. I look for the email and it is stored as an unsent "DRAFT" in gmail.

I did some quick search on google and didn't see anybody else talk about this. But my email (gmail) often become unsent after I hit the send button. I doubt it is a bug on google's side. I also doubt it is very wide spread, since I have neither seen or heard anybody mention this problem.

But it does happen often when the content of email is undesirable for the recipient. This happens both in google's free accounts and in a paid enterprise version of gmail. It happens both in work email and in personal email.

I mean, I guess I should admit, now that I'm at it, that I also have occasional ED… Because it is of similar level of embarrassment for a computer guy to not know this crucial skill is probably like ED to sexual ability of man--naturally occurring but failing. Oh, and!?, btw!? I also have urinary incontinence. Experiencing all three, I can tell you that they don't kill you, but all are very inconvenient and can be very very embarrassing.

Let's see, what have I tried:

* Tried google's 2-phase verification.

* Tried paying google for the gmail account.

* HTTPS always, man-in-the-middle due to invisible corporate proxy cannot be. And it happens at home too.

* And failing that, using a mobile device that goes through an entirely physically separate cellular network.

* Use chrome, which supposedly is more secure than other browsers.

* Bcc myself on all mail.

* porn, sex, not drinking water, and diapers.

Still, emails become unsent the next day. The problem with this is that if it is not a bug, then the people who cause this to happen is seriously detracting from my ability to work and live. I mean, I have thought about how it might be my boss who just want to delay a few projects so that he doesn't have to give me bonus, or my coworker who want to make me look bad so that he can get bonus, or the HR/legal of company who want to reduce liability of the company by making it look like I didn't communicate vital but damaging information.

But those are just suspicions of a really insane person. I mean, seriously, what are the chances that the silly secretary or office manager have more access to information and control my communications than I do? I mean, com'on I actually work and produce things that the company sell for money, it cannot possibly be that there is a person who sits there and reads every single email and evaluates them and selectively unsends them.

I don't have trouble believing that shrewd corporate competitors and business man and an occasional hacker have the means to do this, but the unsending of email happens at several companies, several accounts under management by different people. It happens enough to make me think that every company officially has the capability of unsending emails hosted by google?

Is this an attack by Microsoft? Part of the scroogle campaign? Some coworker do come from M$ family… Corporate conspiracy to defame google?

Despite these occasional intrusions, I have not been motivated to seek out a new email service provider (ESP) for my personal account, and certainly have no better alternative to recommend to work place.

Also, it could be that I just suffer from some kind of interruption in consciousness and somehow I have clicked on "INBOX" instead of "Send" on those occasions. But this is very unlikely as many of these emails contain important information. Also, there are occasions when I've checked that the email is in the "SENT" box before leaving work and then seeing the email in "DRAFT" folder several days later.

I know I won't be the first or last guy to complain about ED… But how come there isn't awareness campaigns and support groups for people who's email get unsent?

p.s.

Btw, if you ever get raging hemorrhoids that stay for months and months or anal fissure that reappear daily, try to use some baby diaper cream in addition to the fiber that the doctor prescribe. They cream help you heal just as much as they help baby. fyi I guess... At least I have found some solutions regarding this embarrassing matter.