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Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the omg-u-have-to-clik-this-linkz dept.

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."

12 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. CLM Vrs CEM by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. A sample email by creepynut · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>>>
    >>>> SEND THIS EMAIL TO AT LEAST 50 FRIENDS AND YOU WILL
    TOTALLY
    >>>> GET A JOB AS A LAWYER. IT WORKED FOR ME LOLZ. IF
    YOU
    >>>> DO NOT SEND IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES YOU WILL NOT GET
    THE
    >>>> JOB AND A LAWYER WILL COME AND BEAT YOU UP LOLZ
    >>>
    >>> DO THIS GUYZ IT WORKS
    >>
    >>
    >>

  3. Does anybody see the Office Space Parallel? by neonprimetime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this article remind anybody of when Peter got the promotion, and Michael and Samir got layed off?

    1. Re:Does anybody see the Office Space Parallel? by MarkGriz · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Does this article remind anybody of when Peter got the promotion, and Michael and Samir got layed off?"

      It's not that I'm too lazy to RTFA, it's that I just don't care.

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  4. To: DL:All-Employees by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  5. Re:It depends by flewp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or if your boss's name is Jack...

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  6. Windows didn't hurt Microsoft by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon folk, this is /., gotta keep the crusade going!

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  7. Re:They do more often than they don't by cavtroop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Googling a person before hire to learn as much about them as possible is standard practice these days. Not at Radio Shack :)

  8. Office Space by albeit+unknown · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Ummmm by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"

  10. Re:They do more often than they don't by doxology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is your name Michael Bolton?

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  11. Re:They do more often than they don't by Daniel+Wood · · Score: 5, Funny

    You would have to be stupid to post on slashdot under your real name.