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Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-are-all-fired dept.

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."

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  1. Foward your email by Neil+Blender · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have all my email forwarded to a gmail account. If I get something personal that I wouldn't want anyone to know about or something sketchy at work, I reply from gmail.

    1. Re:Foward your email by tonejava · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Wouldn't that breach company privacy/non-disclosure agreements somehow?

  2. Lack of social skills by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to work with two Japanese coworkers who had an email spat. They sat next to each other, but one day they had a heated debate. After that finished, they stopped all verbal communication and started sending nasty emails to each other... despite sitting only a meter apart.

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  3. Re:Ouch by the_wesman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    yes, personal e-mail should be used for personal business but.... I have to ask - does this stray the line? according to the rule we've both agreed on (personal e-mail/personal business) and the assumption that her lunch is considered personal business (despite the fact that she is allow to keep it in her "official company refrigerator" - as opposed to the "personal refrigerator" for her "personal lunch") she _should_ have... found out the "personal" e-mail address of all of the 'colleagues' to whom she wanted to address and then used her personal e-mail account to ask them if they had seen the "personal" lunch that was taken from her "official company refrigerator" ....

    seriously, if some unclefucker stole my damn lunch from a refrigerator where I work, I would somehow (possibly using a strongly-worded flyer that I would have designed on my "official work" computer and, of course, used the "official company" printer to print rather than via my "official company e-mail" account) try to figure out what had happened to my lunch - is this "personal" business? yes, but the fact is, her lunch went missing in her office (perhaps she did put it on another floor, but still) so approaching her colleagues via "company" e-mail does not seem unreasonable to me

    the way this escalated is immature but that's what you can expect from stupid bimbo secretaries (I am kidding)

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  4. Re:Ouch by child_of_mercy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Allens are a big 5 law firm in Australia, they are so far up themselves they can see their own tonsils (and I used to work for a different big fiver).

    Having said that this won't stand up a minute in an industrial court unless there is a long and documented history of abuse and counselling.

    So they'll either get a huge payout or be back real soon.

    Everyone's a winner except the precious partners of the firm and they won't notice the spare change.

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