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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. 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
    >>
    >>
    >>

  2. 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?

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

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

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  4. 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 :)

  5. Must be nice by MrNougat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From TFA:

    As for Ms. Abdala, she says a mea culpa "will never happen." She's living on funds provided by her father and has rented office space for her own practice. "I've never been the type to work under someone," she says.

    I won't work under someone, earning my own way, but I'll shamelessly nurse from the teat. That doesn't work for people whose parents don't have the funds to be venture capitalists for their children.

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

    Is your name Michael Bolton?

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  7. 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.