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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. well yeah by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's an old public relations adage: "there's no such thing as bad pr"

    a lot of people hating you, ridiculing you, smirking at you, etc., is better than no one knowing you even exist

    it doesn't matter what you do if no one is aware of it, to the point that even if you are doing mediocre work, if people know about you, you have more upward mobility than if you are doing sterling work but are invisible

    --
    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. Re:A sample email by AdamTheBastard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hi guys, I don't normally send this crap on (I dont belive in it lolz) but this one is really true. I had a friend who GOT A JOB FROM THIS EMAIL! It really works!!!!

    Please forgive me for leaving the header intact and sending everyone's email address along so that a dataminer has no trouble picking up more spam targets. Also notice that there are 49 other email addresses in the 'to' header for this email. I wanted you all to know who my friends are and I wanted everyone to have the same chance to get their address regexed out by a spambot. If you press forward please don't remove anyone's email addresses that's just rude you n00bie. I hope that we can break the 9:1 ration of headers to content. PLEASE MAKE YOUR FRIENDS SCROOOOOOOOL. LOLZ.

    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> 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
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>

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  3. OB. Clerks the Animated Series quote: by ePhil_One · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Leonardo Leonardo: Kill him, Plug!
    Mr. Plug: I'm only a publicist, sir.
    Leonardo Leonardo: Well, then kill him... with bad publicity.
    Mr. Plug: [chuckles] Sir, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
    Leonardo Leonardo: Plug!
    Mr. Plug: Consider it done.

    --
    You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.