To add a experience to what Boyton said-- I work for gov. and for the first 5-6 years we had email, things were pretty loose. I got tons of the less then clean stuff from inside my Dept. and from out side, I looked-- BUT never once sent forwarded or kept in any folder. The guy in the office next to me, like to send them to his wife’s outside employer ( her boss) and others in the Dept.. Well One day despite being addressed to that address the mail went to a lady in anther dept of our Gov. She filed a complaint and he was taken to the cleaners ( did not lose job but a inch away) and then they hauled every one else in for a lecture and warning about email. Except me, Because I never sent, I had no control over what is sent to me, no matter who its from. so its what I did with this after that they judged, and never keeping or mailing I was off the hook . No warning, no lecture nothing—They got some filters about 9 months later .
To this day for some reason a couple of now banned web address ( guns stuff) still send me emails at my office from time to time that get by the filters. Delete button – and I am off the hook.
I have a friend who also had a similar experience- received but never sent from office computer, every one else in his office got S*** canned, he just got laid off with UC pay . Business was closing and they were looking for ways to save money by firing people over thingss they did not care abut yesterday.
Don’t worry about this if they fire you over what got sent to you, they wanted your ass for some other reason – Like maybe for not taking them with you to CR.
and when my buddy got his lecture, they had every email for 5-6 years he had sent to any one, no matter how large,small or STUPID-- boss got to read a lot of emails that where never meant for his eyes from people n his unit to others in his unit - he was not happy about those
