Media Smutty Emails
posted by on January 19 at 15:17 PM
It seems that a few dozen Port of Seattle police officers sent smutty emails to each other. Heavens—where are my smelling salts? From today’s PI:
Thirty-two current and former Port of Seattle police officers—nearly a third of the department’s sworn force—have been caught exchanging or receiving racist, sexist and sexually explicit e-mails since the end of October 2004, department records obtained by the Seattle P-I show.For 16 months, no one in the department reported the smut-laced e-mails to top-level managers or internal investigators, even though the field-level supervisors joined line officers spending hours on their shifts viewing the material. The behavior wasn’t discovered until a woman accused one officer of harassment, and internal investigators looked at his computer.
The racist emails? Not okay, very bad, disgusting. But I’m always a little weirded out when public employees get into trouble for sending sexually explicit emails at work—just for sending them, mind you, not for sending them to someone who objected or felt threatened. The guy who sent dirty emails to that woman who didn’t think they were appropriate? Okay, that guy oughta be busted, in trouble, reprimanded, whatever. Maybe fired. But the other dopes? In trouble just for sending smutty emails? Sheesh. Seems extreme.
Stories like this that make me glad that I work in the private sector, where people can’t do public record requests and obtain my email. If they could, shit, the PI could do a three-part series—total Pulitzer bait!—just on the emails that Bradley Steinbacher sends me.
You see, every once in a while I’ll get an email from Brad, the managing editor around here, with a subject line like “New Deadlines,” or, “Freelance Payment Question.” Thinking the email is work related, I open it and—KABAM! My eyes are assaulted by smut that would make the PI’s editors’ heads explode. I’m going to give an example. I’m going to post a picture—a link to it—that Brad sent me at work. It made me push back from my desk so fast I fell out of my chair. Click on the link below at your peril—but be warned. This link is not safe for work, not safe for home, not safe for democracy. Don’t say you weren’t warned:
And yet, I can name four or five different guys who'd pay cash money for that photograph.
It's not goatse, is it?
How wonderful that the department seems more worked up about the smutty e-mails than the racist and sexist e-mails.
Ah, the imfamous lemon party. Don't know why its called that, but I first saw it here:
http://www.lemonparty.org
I thought it couldn't get worse than the fat film, earlier.
today is a smutty slog day. Hooray for Stranger workplace culture!
i think one of the problems people had with this was the fact that a matenance worker was fired for doing basically the same thing, where police officers where merely "reprimanded"--what ever the fuck that means.
Lemon party is gross, yes, but the worst by far is this.
www.meatspin.com
l0!!!
Oh yeah, seen that. (Many times, too.)
you son of a bitch.
lol lemonparty
I think it was so named to describe the look most people get when the image is displayed to them without warning.
It would be interesting to see people's reactions to it, as with this recent stab at a Mass Goatse.
No way. The worst image ever is tubgirl. www.tubgirl.com. I've never looked at it for more than a half a second without quitting the internet and/or throwing my computer across the room. As soon as my mind starts to even process the image, I can't handle it anymore.
Oh dear god, Davida. That is horrifying. Why do I always click the links people tell me not to???
"have been caught exchanging or receiving"
Notice that. IT says receiving. Some of them eployees simply got the damn emails. If someones a racist for receiving a racist email or a sexist for receiving a sexist email, then I have a ten foot cock, hundreds of women (and men) lusting after me, and 10 million dollars in a Nigerian bank. Oh and lots and lots of CaIliZ
sex is beautiful
AHHHHHH AHHHHH AHHHHH
it is so encouraging to see men of a certain age enjoying sex
AHHHHHH AHHHHH AHHHH AHHHHH
we are too obsessed with youth and beauty
AHHHHH AHHHHH AHHHH AHHHHH
I want granpa and his pals to enjoy all the good things in life
AHHH AHHHHHH AHHHHHH
I'm trying to be non agephobic, non fat phobic non homophobic
AHHHHH AHHHH AHHHH
more pics like that will help us overcome our predjudices and hangups with geriatric sex
AHHHH AHHHH AHHHH
I might do ok on FEAR FACTOR after all....
Is it odd that I felt amusement rather than disgust? I laughed so hard I almost peed.
Giffy - i think the 'receiving' thing means that even after they got these emails, they didn't do anything about it, helping to foster the overall attitude. the article also said that they were duty bound to tell their bosses about what the knew others were doing, but didn't do that. rules are stricter for public employees i guess.
that tubgirl thing made me throw up a little in my mouth.
I think it's interesting that a hard cock never really looks old.
oh poor tubgirl; what what what oh what need did that fill? the older dudes made much more sense to me. go them. as for me, just spent THREE hours in a "sexual harrassment training" - way too long to be lectured and not w/ the intent of respecting each other but to express in 80 diff ways the fear of being sued. corporate fear and rigid morality makes me more sick than tubgirl.
I didn't laugh or vomit at the same time all week. IT SAID DO NOT CLICK!!! and yet.... where's the mop, hee hee hee:}
Ah, good old tubgirl. Brings back memories. A popular link to give people who ask really stupid and irritating questions like "R ther NE Bizkit ripz on these borde?" back in the day (three or four years ago).
Ha ha, the best way to get people to click on a link is to tell them not to (NSFW etc.)
Did I click? Hell yeah!!
Oh sweet mercy... You could've phrased that warning a little more clearly.
...of course, its like a dare. People click anyways.
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