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# E-mail Gone Wild
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4979/
- Published: 2006-08-31T11:05:07.000Z
- Updated: 2006-08-31T11:05:07.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Technology, #wpChunk

> RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

[Link](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/30/financial/f131351D00.DTL&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

You don't need [McLuhan](https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=374#respond) to decipher the effects of media on those 400 workers. One commentator thinks it might be dehumanizing. I think "insulting" is a better word. What goes through a worker's head when he gets that? "What about COBRA?" "Do I just pack up and leave now?" "The CEO must know I was sleeping with his daughter."

Softening fact: Workers were told in meetings that cutbacks were coming and the news would be delivered electronically. That helps a lot. But I bet the "You got mail!" tingle on employees's computers was pretty intense for awhile.

But no matter how you cut it, e-mail probably isn't the best medium for such things. E-mail also doesn't work well in other situations:

\*Breaking up with a girlfriend;

\*Notifying co-workers that the building is on fire;

\*Marriage proposals;

\*Telling a friend that his wife is having an affair.

But e-mail is very good in these situations:

\*Breaking up with a girlfriend because you have VD and may have given it to her;

\*Notifying co-workers that you set the building on fire while trying to smoke a joint in the paper-shredding room;

\*Breaking off a marriage proposal because you've decided to try the gay lifestyle for awhile;

\*Telling a friend that his wife is having an affair with you.