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Email to the Gods


Using email to shame or coerce another. This is usually an email arriving from a colleague (which includes either true or false information) levelling accusations of blame, which are also copied on to bosses, directors, customers, suppliers etc.

Email to the Gods was the first political game in cyberspace that we were able to isolate and describe succinctly enough to be able to prescribe a suitable antidote. We define it as using email to publicly shame or coerce another. It usually takes the form of an email arriving from a colleague, levelling ...

 

More details and guidance on how to deal with someone playing this Dirty Trick can be found in "21 Dirty Tricks at Work" by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.




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