Power utility Eskom has told employees it will not tolerate the circulation of "Eskom jokes".
In an e-mail to employees yesterday, Eskom's information security manager Krish Naidoo labelled a number of "Eskom jokes" being distributed in the organisation as "defamatory, degrading, obscene and abusive".
Circulating such jokes within the organisation was a contravention of Eskom's information security policy, noted Naidoo.
"This is a request for Eskom employees that receive these 'Eskom jokes' to forward them to group communications and under no circumstances should these jokes be forwarded or circulated either within Eskom or outside Eskom," he concluded.
Speaking yesterday afternoon, Naidoo explained the mail was a standard warning to employees to remind the workforce of its e-mail policies.
"This is a reputational thing. We are a professional organisation and some of these mails were obscene."
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