someone sent us racy photos of our employee

A reader writes:

Today my office received an email from an address we don’t recognize about a young, relatively junior female member of our staff. It contained screenshots of her on an app that allows you to make money by livestreaming. The screenshots are racy but not obscene. The email said the employee mentioned our company by name and complained that we didn’t pay enough so she was soliciting donations. The email also alluded to nude photos.

I don’t care what employees do in their spare time. The email is clearly aimed at embarrassing our team member, and I’m planning to file it (as we do all correspondence) without responding. However, I’m not sure whether to say something to the employee. I’m not sure if it would be more reassuring to hear that we received it but won’t be doing anything about it, or more embarrassing to know that it happened. I’m mostly concerned with supporting her as best we can.

I answer this question over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.

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