You’ve all seen those legal disclaimers sitting at the bottom of corporate email signatures lately, the ones that say you’d better not share the important garbage contained within the email or you’ll surely roast in hell. Today I received this beauty, one that raised the bar on stupidity. Of course I won’t share with you who it came from, except to say that a $150,000 education doesn’t guarantee common sense:
This message from xxxxx contains information that may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not read, copy, distribute, or use this information. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message.
Yeah, right. Like I’m going to do that. And maybe it’s just me, but here’s the confusing part: how would I get to the part about what a naughty boy I am for having read the message, unless I’d already read the message?
So now you’re on Google…