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."

Comments

Lack of social skills

[Neo-Rio-101]

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.

Re:Ouch

[child_of_mercy]

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.