Electronic archives brought down Harry Stonecipher, once Boeing's president and chief executive. He resigned in March after reports of an extramarital affair with a female Boeing executive.
The smoking gun, in part, was sexually explicit correspondence between Stonecipher and his paramour. The Wall Street Journal reported at the time that the conversations took place at least in part through e-mail.
Would-be workplace sweethearts, be warned: Plenty of businesses monitor employees' e-mail messages, and it's perfectly legal to do so. A study that News.com wrote about last year said that 63 percent of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to employ staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound e-mail.
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