Watch Those Emails
If this isn't a good lesson for the workplace, I don't know what is. Seems that about 1000 emails have surfaced from FEMA as Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Golf coast. Rep. Charlie Melancon, whose district south of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane, posted a sampling of e-mails written by Federal Emergency Management chief Michael Brown on his Web site on Wednesday. The emails, available here, clearly are an embarrassment and have given critics of FEMA's response sufficient fodder to make their case. It is the careless communication styles inherent in email that demonstrate how dangerous it can be to an organization.