Corporate email protocol has changed so much over the last few years, and I would now never even think of using dubious language on the company network.
However, about six or seven years ago, my large multinational company merged with our major competitor, and the DoJ lawyers came in to check for evidence of anticompetitive behavior. This included searching everyone’s email for evidence of collusion or price-fixing, searching for incriminating phrases like “crush the competition” and “together we will rule the world, muhahaha”.
One of my staff had to install the text-mining software to perform these checks, and had to go through a fairly extensive process to ensure it was working correctly across all our email servers. After a couple of days, he gleefully reported back to me that the person that had used the word “f*ck” in emails more than anyone else in our 15,000 person company was, err, me.
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