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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."

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  1. Re:It's the old adage... by JabberWokky · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    there's no such thing as bad publicity.

    Michael Brown's certainly doing well.

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  2. Auto Reply I got from a sales rep yesterday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry I am out of pocket today for Presidens day, and returning Tuesday with no access to email or voicemail.
    Your business is of the utmost.

    Thank you for your patience.

  3. My boss just sent me this email. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The auditors are HERE! DO NOT TALK TO THEM ABOUT ANYTHING. If they approach you for whatever, just tell them you're in the middle of something and could you get back with them in a minutes. THEN YOU FIND ME and RUSSELL - these are orders from Russell. Thanks

    *Documenting That she and her boss are telling us to lie to auditors. at the very least implying we have something to hide.*

    Posted Anonymously to protect the guilty. :)

  4. To: President-VICE Richard B. Cheney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    You can reveal the classified info about Plame.

    Fuck America. We're making billions.

    Seditiously,
    President George W. Bush

  5. They're right, Just ask Chuck Norris by jerryodom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That thing floating around about how bad ass Chuck Norris is has gotten him more press than he's seen since Walker Texas Ranger.

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  6. Re:Prof by dotpavan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am sorry, I didnt notice your post.

  7. Re:They do more often than they don't by TPS+Report · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers


    Or, to simplify in terms that every male would understand: Shooting yourself in the nuts doesn't always mean you'll lose them. Some really hot chick might even think guys who shoot themselves in the nuts, are sexy. But it's unlikely.
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  8. Re:It's the old adage... by fak3r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I disagree, I posted what I first thought of (the old adage) and then I realized that I could be the 1st poster again. As I've done it before, it is simply no big, but it's just fun to keep up the (1st?) question going. If I had missed 1st it would have setup a bunch of automatic "You fail it!" responses, which I think are quite funny.

    Also, since my post was 1st, me mentioning it in the post is ONtopic, not off.

    Respectfully,
    fak3r

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