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Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work
ross.w writes "Two legal secretaries in Sydney have been sacked after a flamewar over a ham sandwich got circulated throughout the cities financial district. The insults about figures, boyfriends and jobs flew thick and fast and ultimately resulted in the dismissal of both of them for mis-use of the email system."
The spokesman said he still did not know whether or not Ms Nugent's lunch was stolen.
Rumor has it that Nugent's lunch was stolen by her ex-boyfriend who is now with Bird.
Warning: Do not pass this on.
Regardless, the person who forwarded these emails to external parties should be fired because company emails shouldn't be forwarded to unintended recipients without original author's consent.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
BANNED!!! OLOLO
Are either of them hot, or possibly both of them?
That would make my day (night)
While cleaning the nineteenth floor, I noticed the fridge had been left open. Naturally I threw out all the spoiled contents. I hope I didn't cause too much trouble.
Just thank god it wasn't an emacs sandwich with vim in between. The fires would burn until the end of time *shudder*.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
I agree!
Now flame me if you must, but what happened to the good old days when the secretary was there to bring the boss a cup of coffee, and take his dry cleaning to the chinese place? You know... two wongs can make it white.
Work is not the place for women to be women. Work is the place for women to kiss ass.
Having said that, if I owned an internet porn company, I would try and hire the two of them for some hot firey angry lesbian action. Give them both a whiffle ball bat, tell them there are no rules- hit as hard as you can. because the looser is getting the wiffle ball bat in her ass. Give the winner $1000 and pay their rent for a month while they find a new job. Pay the loser nothing and put her picture on a billboard with the wiffleball bat hanging out her snatch.
Welcome to corporate warfare.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"That's exactly why you use personal email for personal things..."
Though sometimes the upfront and personal approach is best. For example:
"Well, I gotta tell you - I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who stole that sandwich... is dangerous. And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap and then stalk from office to office with an Armilite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semiautomatic weapon: pumping round after round into colleagues and coworkers. This might be someone you've known for years . . . someone very, very close to you."
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Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
She should be fired just for that misuse of quotation marks.
does anyone else realize that the only reason this is news is because some schmoe was searching online for "katrina" and came across this pointless story?
The worse part was that the husband told me about it over IM during their fight. And the wife got even more pissed since she heard him typing...but not to her. I heard later that their argument basically started all over again because of the extra IM to me.
Obviously a geek couple.
Someone is going to find the sandwhich in some refrigerator, and it's going to be great.
XaNk: now I remember why I hated the girls in high school
XaNk: because none of them would talk to me
Please let this (bad) joke die. You didn't even do it right, not that it would have been funny either way.
Preemptive strike (please don't add any missing ones):
But do they run linux email clients?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those
1. Flame co-worker via email
2. ???
3. Profit!
I don't have email access you insensitive clod!
I, for one, welcome our new email-flaming overlords.
Rude emails at work? Won't somebody think of the children?!
Well, in my day we used real flamethrowers to flame each other, and we liked it that way!
Ecpecting a dupe post in 5, 4, 3, . . .
Netcraft confirms, email flaming is dead . . .
All your jobs are belong to email flamewar.
George Bush is responsible somehow.
I have email flamewars at work all the time and there's never been a prob%^%@13#^$3@#$*^&^NO CARRIER
everything in moderation
Now, if I was in this flame war (and if I was a woman), it would read more like this:
Me: You stupid bitch, I ate your sandwich. I thought it would save a few pounds off your fat ass and I hadn't eaten in two days.
Her: At least I'm not blonde!
Me: Your pussy hairs don't lie you little slut.
Her: What?!
Me: That's right. I got pictures. When my dog was licking you in your "sweet spot", and your pussy hairs are blonde alright!
Her: Well, at least I have one!
Me: One what? One brain cell? One ovary? One tit? You're so fat...blahblah
Get the idea?
I don't know what's worse, being incompetent, or getting fired over a lame flame war.
Like what I said? You might like my music
But don't you see? Bush is responsible. This sort of thing didn't happen when Hillary Clinton was president!
Shame on Google.
Even people on Slashdot are more literate
;-)
No they're not. Let's not get carried away...
" Melinda Bird: Oh my God I'm laughing! "
Melinda Bird: OMG LOL!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
In Soviet Russia, dead horse beats YOU!
because the looser is getting the wiffle ball bat in her ass
best misspelling of loser ever!
>Regardless, the person who forwarded these emails to external parties should be fired because company emails shouldn't be forwarded to unintended recipients without original author's consent.
Why? Was that in the company's acceptable use policy (AUP)? NO?
Many companies have yet to effectively leverage the online employee comportment solutions that are available in the idea marketplace. In the online world, synergies for mitigation of "water cooler" discussions can be harnessed LIKE NEVER BEFORE!
Does your company's AUP need dusting off? Is the disused lavatory that houses the locked Employee Manual filing cabinet just not recieving the foot traffic it deserves because the door is missing its 'Beware of the Leopard' sign? ACT NOW!
Check out some of the quality AUP elements that are at work on my own personal mailbox sender storage space use policy:
- Senders must grant unlimited reproduction, modification, and distrubution of their message contents
- Senders agree to have all AUP-related feedback handled by the on-line erectile disfunction medication retailer that I've received the most spam from this week (currently instant-pharmacy.net, in case you're interested)
Remember: It's quality outsourcing possibilities like these that let me keep my service levels up! Imagine how dissappointed I would be if my customer service workload made me LOSE OUT on the EXCELLENT FREE KARMA available by forwarding little Johnny's request for postcards out to 20 of my BESTEST FRIENDS (who judging by my inbox contents are all direct e-mail marketers)! Now that would just be plain sad.
(Apologies to the late Mr. Adams for blatant fair use of the leopard bit.)
-aT
then, where did the whole "I'm not blonde" thing come from?
Brunette182: Wher my samich U theving asshats?
Blondie69: dood you left it on 20 floor Yur stupid
Brunette182: F U! Ur teh stupid blonde here!
Blondie69: Your ugle
Brunette182: Im teh coolist.
Blondie69: Ur jelous of my coolnees
Brunette182: Wahtever
Well, think about it! Did you ever hear about people surfing porn at work during the Nixon administration?
I'm sure the tighter will be grateful you said that.
The original post was funny.
You're just an idiot.
What's even funnier is that your collection of old, worn-out jokes are moderated as +5 funny.
:-)
This confirms my suspicion that the mods really are on crack.
Oh, and you forgot "old people in Korea" and "...in japan!"
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You will remember this phrase forever.
I agree, this is pretty stupid.
Stupid doesn't begin to describe it. Try pathetic. They wouldn't last 30 seconds on alt.flame.flame.flame.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Our boss is also a business tool.
You forgot: in Soviet Russia e-mail flames you
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"George Bush is responsible somehow."
That's what the Commie / Greenie / Hippy / Unwashed / Socialist / Liberal / Lesbian / Girly men at the NYT want you to think.
******>> Puts on tinfoil hat and sticks toy US flag ontop of the monitor.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Brunette: What happen?
Blonde: We get signal.
Brunette: What !
Blonde: Microsoft Outlook turn on.
Brunette: It's You !!
Boss: How are you women !!
Boss: All your jobs are belong to us.
Boss: You are on the way to destruction.
Brunette: What you say !!
Boss: You have no chance to survive make your office empty.
Boss: HA HA HA HA ....
Brunette: Take off every 'email' !!
Brunette: You know what you doing.
Brunette: Move 'email'.
Brunette: For great justice.
(Okay, I could have done better, don't mod me down for rushing :) and thanks for formatting the last one so nicely, Slashdot)
This pic is less blurry.
There is an email flamewar in here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
(Did you bring your grue gun?)
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
That's nothing...try a married couple sending angry IM's at each other while in their apartment.
Reminds me of a tale about a deaf couple arguing. They were signing to each other, and the woman was signing something when the man shut his eyes.
Apparently, the woman tried to prise his eyes open in an effort to get him to see what she was saying...
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I like the "Email to a friend" link at the end of the article.
"Those innocent fun games of the hallucination generation"
Not necessarily, in this context it might mean the one that isn't tighter.
Wow... well done on completely missing the joke by explaining it.
E-mail is a tool of repression wield by self-perpetuating yankee running dog autocrats to repress proletariat peasants. The yankee running dogs have propagandized you into believing that we're an autonomous anarcho-syndicalist collective. Outdated imperialist dogma has perpetuated the social and economic differences of the proletariat and conceal that we're living in a dictatorship.
...
Wait...
Ooooh! Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here
"Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian
"They were both obviously fired because they were both so completely incompetent they couldn't even conduct a proper flame war."
BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS
!!!!!!!!!
They were fired because their tits weren't big enough!!!
I bet top posters drive you crazy. :o)
Whatever happened to a sane style of communicating with people over e-mail? I remember times where people actually quoted relevant material from previous mails, trimmed down unnecessary garbage and answered questions *below* the question itself. These days you need to sift through millions of lines of excessive "Original Message" quoting without any reference to the actual contents of previous messages. Sucky line breaks, HTML-crap, incoherent writing and idiotic bitmap smileys have made e-mail communication a Pain In The Ass, but certainly not an effective means of getting things done in a coherent fashion. Thank god there are some lonely islands in usenet with old-fashioned people who take the three seconds to trim down excessive quoting, who put answers *after* the questions and who know how to use an editor to get a message across. One of these days I am going to start a company that uses a newsserver as its main means of internal communication and I'll fire everyone who doesn't play by the rules of old style usenet posting.
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