Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Those oft-forwarded email gaffes don't always lead to career meltdowns for the ashamed senders, Jared Sandberg writes in the Wall Street Journal. In some corners of the business world, preserving a reputation can be less important than acquiring one in the first place. For instance, the 2003 legal summer associate who accidentally emailed 40 colleagues to announce he was 'busy doing jack' ended up getting a job at the firm. More recently, the young woman who told off a lawyer offering her a job -- and saw her email forwarded worldwide -- is quite confident that the notoriety can't hurt, and might even help, her career."

Comments

And this is why

[Anonymous Coward]

...privacy is a bad thing. We should just do away with Constitutional protections. Make every private life public. After all, more good things can happen when we're exposed to the rest of the world. Right? Those founding fathers. Pfttt. What did they know, bunch of old geezers.

Re:They do more often than they don't

[weierstrass]

well you're an idiot then aren't you.

Re:They do more often than they don't

[Anonymous Coward]

Arent lawyers supposed to be dicks and difficult????