That was fast…

We have a new employee starting tomorrow. We listed her in our website’s staff directory on Friday. I went to setup a PC to log in to her email this afternoon, and there was already spam in the account! The spam directed at her got here before she did. If that doesn’t smack of an almost useless technology, I don’t know what does.

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