Screeds

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How do you respond to a coworker who forwards a political rant full of hate and fear, intended to deter you from voting for a particular candidate? I told him "This is not appropriate for interoffice mail," and I don't want to get dragged into a protracted argument of refuting his points. He and I do not share an outlook at all. I don't want to rat him out to Human Resources, because I suspect he's already in danger of being let go, and other than disagreeing with him politically I have no problem with him as a coworker.

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You might mention to HR that there's someone who has been doing this, and ask them to send out a reminder of company policy. You don't have to tell them who it is.

At one job I had, 12-15 years ago, there was a VP of Something who kept sending out biblical quotes to the entire company. I wanted to tell him to stop, but it wasn't worth the chance of reprisals. So, instead, I hacked up a filtering system for my mailer, on company time, and set it to delete his quotes.

(I suppose it says a lot about the times that I had a mailer that didn't have a filter system to begin with.)