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Brian Roper worked at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan, for 15 years. During his career as a head operator at one of Dow's plants, Roper said he rarely used email as part of his daily responsibilities. In fact, in his entire time at Dow, he sent seven emails, total.
But, an internal complaint to Dow management kicked off a company wide witch-hunt about alleged email abuse and Roper found himself among hundreds of employees accused of sending and receiving inappropriate email.
When the dust settled on Dow's investigation, Roper found himself among a group of 50 employees who were fired.
Dow claims Roper sent pornographic email to other employees. Roper admits he may have received some questionable material, but says he never sent those emails to other people.
"I had to sign a letter of guilt and lose all my union rights for 24 months," Roper explained. "If I didn't sign it, they'd terminate my career at Dow. And I refused to sign it because I was innocent." Roper said he is still shocked that he lost his job over a few emails.
Too many Internet users assume that all electronic information is safe from prying eyes. They could not be more wrong. All electronic messages are sent through a system of routers and servers. At points along this path, email messages are logged and may even be stored on backup tapes that are kept for years. These storage points are the weak links in the chain, for this is where your messages, business transactions or credit card numbers can potentially be retrieved, read and misused. Every time you send email, you trust your messages and privacy to nameless and faceless individuals or organizations that frequently have no guidelines and no concerns for your privacy or security.
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Using secure e-mail is so important that we are giving away a free EliteFitness.com T-Shirt every day this week to members who have an EliteFitness.com e-mail address in their boards' profile. This contest was scheduled to run last week, but was moved to this week due to the server upgrades!
The e-mail system is very similar to hotmail, Yahoo mail, or hushmail except you get a cool e-mail address like [email protected]. So if you go by BigRickRock on the elitefitness.com discussion boards, now your e-mail address can be [email protected] or anything else that you choose!
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Or, please click here to get a cool T-Shirt like the one here.
Our second winner is: str8cubano
More winners announced every day this week.[/color]
Brian Roper worked at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan, for 15 years. During his career as a head operator at one of Dow's plants, Roper said he rarely used email as part of his daily responsibilities. In fact, in his entire time at Dow, he sent seven emails, total.
But, an internal complaint to Dow management kicked off a company wide witch-hunt about alleged email abuse and Roper found himself among hundreds of employees accused of sending and receiving inappropriate email.
When the dust settled on Dow's investigation, Roper found himself among a group of 50 employees who were fired.
Dow claims Roper sent pornographic email to other employees. Roper admits he may have received some questionable material, but says he never sent those emails to other people.
"I had to sign a letter of guilt and lose all my union rights for 24 months," Roper explained. "If I didn't sign it, they'd terminate my career at Dow. And I refused to sign it because I was innocent." Roper said he is still shocked that he lost his job over a few emails.
Too many Internet users assume that all electronic information is safe from prying eyes. They could not be more wrong. All electronic messages are sent through a system of routers and servers. At points along this path, email messages are logged and may even be stored on backup tapes that are kept for years. These storage points are the weak links in the chain, for this is where your messages, business transactions or credit card numbers can potentially be retrieved, read and misused. Every time you send email, you trust your messages and privacy to nameless and faceless individuals or organizations that frequently have no guidelines and no concerns for your privacy or security.
By contrast, Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging keeps your online communications private and secure. Our mail servers are located overseas for additional security and are even more powerful than the servers hushmail uses for its own email accounts. Not even an Elite Fitness or HushMail employee with access to our Web servers can read your encrypted email, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer. An Elite Fitness Stealth Messaging account lets you communicate in total security with any other Elite or Hush member anywhere else in the world.
Using secure e-mail is so important that we are giving away a free EliteFitness.com T-Shirt every day this week to members who have an EliteFitness.com e-mail address in their boards' profile. This contest was scheduled to run last week, but was moved to this week due to the server upgrades!
The e-mail system is very similar to hotmail, Yahoo mail, or hushmail except you get a cool e-mail address like [email protected]. So if you go by BigRickRock on the elitefitness.com discussion boards, now your e-mail address can be [email protected] or anything else that you choose!
Please click here to get a free elitefitness.com e-mail address.
To put the address in your boards' profile, click the blue "Profile" button at the top of every page, then click the "Edit Profile" link to change your e-mail address to your new one from EliteFitness.com.
Or, please click here to get a cool T-Shirt like the one here.
Our second winner is: str8cubano
More winners announced every day this week.[/color]
