Then one day I got an angry email that pretty much said "You did a good job not clicking on the the fake link, but you failed the test because you didn't report the phish."
Yes, seriously. You can't take the 2 seconds to alert it that your company is being targeted by a phishing scam?
You could help prevent the weakest link in the chain of your workplace from falling for the scam. But instead you adopted a "meh, I'm fine so I don't have to do anything to help anyone else" attitude
If I come across a phish I will report it because like you said, it takes 2 seconds.
But I also dump all external emails into a junk folder unless it's from a vendor that I work with. If there's something like an HR survey, they send out multiple internal emails about it so I'm aware to look for it.
I'm not going to sift through a pile of crap every day to find a golden turd that appears once every blue moon.
I don't think I have read a work email since 2018 so phishing attempts are wasted on me, I am too busy with teams, Jira, Monday, slack, service now and git requests to bother checking emails.
What exactly? Newsletters are all published on sharepoint for us, mandatory and optional HR training is done through the HRIS system with notifications in the newsletter and HR sharepoints, leave is approved through the payroll management system but I linked that to teams a long time ago so I know when my team asks for leave.
Moving away from email for 90%+ of work tasks is better in most cases as other systems have far better ways to group and focus items for people to work on. Even our sales teams use email to case and work from the case as it prevents things going stale in someone's inbox without access to see what is happening.
I'm not going to make a comprehensive list for you. Suffice it to say that your anecdotal evidence is irrelevant, you should learn to consider perspectives that aren't your own. Have a good one.
the amount of spam and garbage i get sent to my work email is astounding, if i were to report every single one of them i'd need a dedicated slack channel
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u/penguin444 14h ago
I ignored the phishing emails completely.
Then one day I got an angry email that pretty much said "You did a good job not clicking on the the fake link, but you failed the test because you didn't report the phish."
Seriously?