Email is a wonderful ____________ (0) of communication.
It’s easy, it’s fast - but sometimes just one little click of the ‘send’ button can spell disaster.
How many times have emails been sent to the ____________ (1) person, or to several people ____________ (2) just one person? Dave Gethings got ____________ (3) trouble when
he replied to a birthday invitation. He emailed back a joking, but extremely rude reply, not only to his friend, but also to his manager, the secretaries, directors -to ____________ (4) in the company, in fact.
There are other cases of people forwarding emails ____________ (5) purpose. Lawyer Richard Phillips emailed his secretary ____________ (6) her that she had spilt tomato ketchup on his trousers at lunch and asking her to pay the dry-cleaning bill for the (7) of £4. This email, which was passed around many other law firms, was answered with a stinging reply by his secretary, which also went round the legal world and even ____________ (8) it into the national news! With the resulting publicity, Mr Phillips was so embarrassed at ____________ (9) people considered to be his meanness that he left his job.
Joseph Dobbie said that he wasn’t embarrassed when his email was ____________ (10) around the world, but he did have to change his telephone numbers. He had sent a romantic email to a woman called Kate, who he had met at a party. She had sent it to her sister, who forwarded it to friends, who then forwarded it to more
friends. In the end, he was getting ____________ (11) from people as ____________ (12) away as Australia and the US!
So, before we send our next email, perhaps we should stop and think ...
It’s easy, it’s fast - but sometimes just one little click of the ‘send’ button can spell disaster.
How many times have emails been sent to the ____________ (1) person, or to several people ____________ (2) just one person? Dave Gethings got ____________ (3) trouble when
he replied to a birthday invitation. He emailed back a joking, but extremely rude reply, not only to his friend, but also to his manager, the secretaries, directors -to ____________ (4) in the company, in fact.
There are other cases of people forwarding emails ____________ (5) purpose. Lawyer Richard Phillips emailed his secretary ____________ (6) her that she had spilt tomato ketchup on his trousers at lunch and asking her to pay the dry-cleaning bill for the (7) of £4. This email, which was passed around many other law firms, was answered with a stinging reply by his secretary, which also went round the legal world and even ____________ (8) it into the national news! With the resulting publicity, Mr Phillips was so embarrassed at ____________ (9) people considered to be his meanness that he left his job.
Joseph Dobbie said that he wasn’t embarrassed when his email was ____________ (10) around the world, but he did have to change his telephone numbers. He had sent a romantic email to a woman called Kate, who he had met at a party. She had sent it to her sister, who forwarded it to friends, who then forwarded it to more
friends. In the end, he was getting ____________ (11) from people as ____________ (12) away as Australia and the US!
So, before we send our next email, perhaps we should stop and think ...