Welcome to the 10th installation of the Friday webcomics.

10th installation, eh? That means my site is now at its 10th week. Two and a half months! One-fifth of a year! Yayyy! Thanks for anyone who has become an active reader, by the way. For those of you who haven’t stopped by and commented, I urge you to do so. I would like to personally “meet” each and every one of you!

Sometimes people can get into a lot of trouble at work by simply being insensitive. And usually that is linked to being naive to the fact that they are being insensitive. Just a few weeks ago an employee of 15 years at my company got fired for sending an inappropriate email out to a bunch of people. He sent it out to a distribution list of his friends, or shall I say work associates, but didn’t realize that one of those people was not as close as he thought. The email was political in nature which is usually a big no-no. In the end they decided to make an example of him.

Do I think he was being purposefully insensitive? No. Is there a good chance that the contents of the email were indeed insensitive? Yes. So what do I chalk it up to? He was being naive.

So what is the key take-away? Use that filter that everyone gets “built” with. Turn it on and it should act as a mechanism between your brain and your mouth. You may catch yourself more than you think… and consequently save yourself your career.