Fast Forward....You've Got Mail

I'm pretty sure we all have at least one person who we strongly dislike at our P.O.E (Place of Employment for those of you who skipped the post where I first defined this abbreviation). The type who is always pushing their work off to others, taking advantage of people, and not pulling their weight. There might be many of these people around actually, especially if you work for a large company. Since we can't (or shouldn't) resort to blatantly childish measures to deal with them, I've thought of another way to help them find new opportunities to pursue. It's quite simple and might even achieve the intended end result of getting this person (or people) out of your hair: Ready? Set up a job search FOR them on a job website (such as monster). Simply supply their work email address, which you already know, and select the correct criteria. When they start getting updates sent to their work email address on a regular basis, a few positive things could happen (some are positive for them, all are positive for you):

1. They find a new job, this is clearly the happiest ending for everyone involved (except for the new people they are going to terrorize and annoy).
2. Someone (such as their boss) sees the emails on their screen and assumes they set it up and are looking for a new role. A discussion will ensue and hopefully the person will start pulling their weight and being less annoying--this is the least likely outcome, but anything is possible. 
3. In setting up a search for them, YOU might unintentionally find a great new opportunity. You'd be able to say goodbye to this person (or these people) forever!
4. If worst comes to worst and it doesn't work, at least you'll know you tried. And the time you spend setting up the searches will help pass the time on a slow day (hence the "Fast Forward" post).

*Note: This technique has not been employed by me or anyone else I know at this point so I cannot quantify it's effectiveness.*

P.S. In the spirit of Big Ran's email about googling pictures of people reading, I challenge you to go to google and search "Pictures of people checking email" and take it all in. This is one of my favorites, no email, no people:

-KC Jones