[UK] NSFW timesheet reminder goes viral

A poorly judged payroll email sent out to remind workers to hand in their timesheets went viral after it was shared online by an outraged Reddit user, Daily Star reports.

The email - sent to a company’s entire workforce - contained the line, “if you want me to pay, you know what you have to do”. The text was accompanied by a suggestive picture of an adult film performer.

Outraged commenters initially found it hard to believe that the email was real.

After people insisted that the shocking screenshot had to be fake, Reddit user Nitro Mike - who posted the image - assured them it was entirely genuine. He said, “I wish I was lying to you”.

Other Reddit users asked if the person who had sent the mail had got into trouble, if not been summarily sacked and escorted off the premises.

“Sending an image that is obviously taken from pornography?” one wrote. “Pretty inappropriate for any workplace”.

In response, original poster Nitro Mike said, “Unfortunately nothing crazy happened that I know of. The person sent an apology email and played clueless and the rest of us carried on with our day.

“Just your usual Friday AM shenanigans”.

Some commenters suggested saw the potential for a court case in the offing. “Sexual harassment, sue the pants off the company,” one wrote. “Its [sic] a cut-and-dried case.

“No one, especially HR or Payroll, should be putting sexually suggestive pictures in a company email.”

There was also considerable speculation that the person who had sent the email didn’t understand what they had done.

“Not 100% sure they know it’s a porn meme,” one poster said. “You’d have to be insane to send that at work knowingly.

“As someone else mentioned it could be an older lady who doesn’t understand the context of the picture and just thinks it’s a photo of a woman staring you down that’s cut off a bit”.

Source: Daily Star

(Quotes via original reporting)

A poorly judged payroll email sent out to remind workers to hand in their timesheets went viral after it was shared online by an outraged Reddit user, Daily Star reports.

The email - sent to a company’s entire workforce - contained the line, “if you want me to pay, you know what you have to do”. The text was accompanied by a suggestive picture of an adult film performer.

Outraged commenters initially found it hard to believe that the email was real.

After people insisted that the shocking screenshot had to be fake, Reddit user Nitro Mike - who posted the image - assured them it was entirely genuine. He said, “I wish I was lying to you”.

Other Reddit users asked if the person who had sent the mail had got into trouble, if not been summarily sacked and escorted off the premises.

“Sending an image that is obviously taken from pornography?” one wrote. “Pretty inappropriate for any workplace”.

In response, original poster Nitro Mike said, “Unfortunately nothing crazy happened that I know of. The person sent an apology email and played clueless and the rest of us carried on with our day.

“Just your usual Friday AM shenanigans”.

Some commenters suggested saw the potential for a court case in the offing. “Sexual harassment, sue the pants off the company,” one wrote. “Its [sic] a cut-and-dried case.

“No one, especially HR or Payroll, should be putting sexually suggestive pictures in a company email.”

There was also considerable speculation that the person who had sent the email didn’t understand what they had done.

“Not 100% sure they know it’s a porn meme,” one poster said. “You’d have to be insane to send that at work knowingly.

“As someone else mentioned it could be an older lady who doesn’t understand the context of the picture and just thinks it’s a photo of a woman staring you down that’s cut off a bit”.

Source: Daily Star

(Quotes via original reporting)