What you’ll find in the emails of employees engaged in corporate wrongdoing

From Harper’s Magazine’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.

According to Harper’s Magazine’s Twitter feed, the list pictured above contains the sort of words and phrases that typically appear in work emails between “employees engaged in corporate wrongdoing.”

They were gathered by Ernst and Young in the process of developing their Fraud Triangle Analytics software, which “flags personal correspondence in which expression of ‘incentive/pressure’ and ‘opportunity’ coincide with ‘rationalization’.” Harper’s wryly observe that “In cases of corporate malfeasance, employees’ emails tend to rely heavily on terms like “want no part of this” and “deep shit.”

The words and phrases are listed below. The list is rather enlightening:

Thanks to Frank McGillicuddy for the find!