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Panel 1: [Coworker in a red tie with dark hair leans into the cubicle of IT who is busy on a computer, a key card or ID hangs around his neck]
Coworker: I clicked an email link and it says I need training?
Panel 2: [IT stops working and looks irritated]
IT: Ah yes. The Training.
Panel 3: [IT sprays the coworker with a spray bottle]
FSHSSSH
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FSHSSSH
IT: BAD! THAT WAS BAD!
Panel 4: [IT continues spraying the coworker, now crouching down hands raised defensively as the water is sprayed in his face. IT ha a look of glee on his face as another coworker walks by with a look of concern on her face, papers in hand.]
FSHSSSH
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Coworker: HISSS!
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The next training module unlocks after three hisses
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I agree, and have decided to err on the side of caution, and also put the irritation over on higher-ups. If I get some link I’m required to click that I’m not actively expecting from an unrecognised address, just trash the email. A couple times, I’ve gotten follow-up from a superior asking me why I haven’t responded to <survey>, and I just tell them I haven’t seen it and that it probably got caught in my spam filter. They send me the link in question, and I respond.
I quite quickly realised that most of those surveys they need “everyone” to respond to will just slide quietly by when I do this, so I don’t need to spend time on them. My reasoning is that if it’s actually important, I’ll get it through a reliable channel, and so far that’s worked.
To be fair, I also dump anything that comes from some variant of “noreply” to junk. I figure that if I can’t reply, and I’m not actively expecting the email enough that I check my junk folder, it isn’t important.