A California environmental agency unintentionally incited chaos in its workplace when it sent a mass email to its employees about an available “safe space” for discussion following the Derek Chauvin murder conviction late last month, The Sacramento Bee reported. Soon afterward, workers began voicing their opinions and accusing management of “caving to the mob.”
The incident occurred after an employee at the State Water Resources Control Board messaged all of its 2,376 staff members at the agency and its nine regional water control boards with the email subject line reading, “Employee Support Lunch Through Teams Friday 4/23/2021.”
The message was sent by a member of the board’s newly formed Racial Equity Steering Committee and Working Group, without blind-copying the recipients, thus allowing anyone to reply to the entire group. The email was an invitation for a voluntary lunch meeting for anyone who wanted to discuss Chauvin’s conviction. A jury convicted the whi
Email sent to California water board s 2,376 employees promising a safe space to discuss Chauvin verdict sparks a firestorm as staffers accuse management of caving to the mob and involving obscure body in politics
The mass email chain was sparked by a single message from an employee at California s State Water Resources Control Board on April 21
That employee, who is a member of the board s Racial Equity Steering Committee, had emailed all 2,376 staff about an employee support lunch
The purpose of the lunch was to provide a safe space to discuss Derek Chauvin s conviction and the recent police killings of other black Americans
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Safe space email after Chauvin verdict turns into reply-all melee at California agency
Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A mass email sent by a California environmental agency to announce a safe space discussion after Derek Chauvin s murder conviction sparked a reply-all marathon as employees voiced support for police, accused management of caving to the mob and asked to be removed from a racially based email list.
The Reply-Allpocalypse erupted after an employee at the State Water Resources Control Board messaged all 2,376 staff members at the agency and its nine regional water control boards with the subject line: Employee Support Lunch Through Teams Friday 4/23/2021.
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