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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."
I guess it depends on whether your boss has a sense of humor or not.
Come to think of it, it also depends on whether you are indeed "doing jack" all the time...
In the company I work for, misuse of e-mail may constitute a CLM.
That's a Career Limiting Move. Not to be confused with sleeping with the boss's daughter--a Career Ending Move.
My work here is dung.
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>>>> SEND THIS EMAIL TO AT LEAST 50 FRIENDS AND YOU WILL
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>>>> GET A JOB AS A LAWYER. IT WORKED FOR ME LOLZ. IF
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>>>> DO NOT SEND IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES YOU WILL NOT GET
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>>>> JOB AND A LAWYER WILL COME AND BEAT YOU UP LOLZ
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>>> DO THIS GUYZ IT WORKS
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Does this article remind anybody of when Peter got the promotion, and Michael and Samir got layed off?
Hey, I was busy putting off my project work and came across this funny page: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/21/175222 6
You guys all get the irony, right?
C'mon folk, this is /., gotta keep the crusade going!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Googling a person before hire to learn as much about them as possible is standard practice these days. Not at Radio Shack :)
I'd like to move us right to Peter Gibbons. We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
Maybe this is because in the legal profession you need to be forceful and unyielding in order to help you argue your cases.
"bla bla bla"
Right!
Now... Who wants to go quail hunting? =)
-FL
Hmmmmm.... yes... but what about gaffes like THIS ONE?
WHAT? Oh like you never have.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Many people have been passed over for hire for something stupid they posted to Usenet or an Internet forum. Googling a person before hire to learn as much about them as possible is standard practice these days.
That's why I post here under a pseudonym, and not my real name, Robert Ericson.
Google doesn't index slashdot comments, does it?
Dear Robert,
We're sorry to inform you, however, your posts on the popular internet forum "Slashdot" indicate that you hold opinions that are in opposition to our company. We found these posts by using Google and searching for "Robert Erickson."
One particular comment, maligning Windows, "If I want to make use of old hardware in my house, I'll install linux, hands down -- without a window manager" demonstrates your opinons. Google has helped to ferret out your true nature that you failed to disclose in the interview processes.
We wish you the best of luck in your job search.
Sincerely,
RIAA
The views expressed are mine own and do not express the views of my employer.
I mean, who even heard about that smarmy tart before she was shown screaming for more on thousands of spamvertized websites around the world?
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Is your name Michael Bolton?
sigfault. core dumped.
We know that guy as, "that idiot that thinks there's such a thing as 'emotional intelligence' and paid tens of thousands of dollars to be convinced of that."
Back in the day, we used the built in mail package in VMS for our corporate e-mail package. VAXmail used your username as the FROM field, but since this was usually something like VQXC4995, or some such, the package allowed you to add a "personal name" string, which showed up in emails, along with your FROM username, so that people could tell who it came from without having to consult a table of usernames. Unless you looked at it, though, you wouldn't see yours normally. One night, a particularly annoying IT supervisor was incautious enough to leave himself signed on in the computer room. The operators, scamps everyone of them, took this opportunity to change his "personal name" string from his name, to "I Love You". It was a month later, and hundreds of emails sent by him, before anyone (the director of IT, as it turns out) called him up and said "Dave, what's with this I Love You message in all of your emails. He was mad for weeks, but never fiured out it was the operators that did it.
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
You would have to be stupid to post on slashdot under your real name.