shame
I was working for a high-tech start-up company and a recently terminated, disgruntled employee found a back-door entry into the company’s email system and managed to send a shocking email to every worldwide employee. I came to work one morning and was immediately confronted with, “Have you seen the email?” by several employees and executives. Once I did log on I was astounded to find a lengthy diatribe from the disgruntled former employee explaining the “real” reasons for his termination. He was not terminated for poor performance as his supervisor had outlined for him on several occasions. No! He was actually terminated because his girlfriend (who also worked for the company in a different department) was having a lesbian affair with his supervisor and his supervisor had wanted to be rid of him because he was competition!! As I was burying my head in my hands and trying to sort out what we were going to do next with this mess, I received an email from one of the London employees that made me smile. She wrote, “I came in this morning and was feeling very down about England having lost in the play offs to go to the World Cup and then I opened up this email from ______ and it absolutely made my day! What a wonderful piece of juicy gossip!” There is always a silver lining….I guess.
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