Our new CEO has an "open email" policy where any employee may send him an email and he'll actually read it. One of my co-workers sent him an email and got a response back within a day or two.
So, today I sent him a short note explaining why he should consider a donation to the Perl Foundation.:)
It can't hurt to try. After all, the worst that can happen with emailing the boss is that one
finds out
who the idiots are [fuckedcompany.com]. Always a useful thing to know, even if it turns out that the boss is among them.
You're insufficiently pessimistic. Perhaps the boss is completely unaware that communistic, security-destroying open-source software is being used at the company, and the e-mail would trigger a companywide purge.
The stock has fallen to 1 3/4 today on news that the company is undergoing scrutiny by the SEC [denverpost.com]. There's probably going to be a companywide purge of some kind one way or another real soon.
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You're insufficiently pessimistic. Perhaps the boss is completely unaware that communistic, security-destroying open-source software is being used at the company, and the e-mail would trigger a companywide purge.
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I think I picked a bad day to ask.
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Er, ditto [cnn.com] but on a somewhat larger scale - sigh...