CORPORATE LIFE
“Eat a Bowl of Dicks!”: The Tale of an Epic IT Department Failure
There’s a right way and a wrong way to fire someone
The rumors were all true.
That guy in Accounting was moonlighting while on the job. Instead of having his nose in his spreadsheets while on the clock, he was up to his ass in his side gig. A little forensic IT investigation was all it took to expose his crimes. Using company resources and company time to sell your shit on Ebay… it’s not a good look.
He had to go.
HR called him in and delivered the bad news. “You gotta go!”, they said. When the evidence of his crimes was laid at his feet he walked out of the HR office, cleaned out his desk, and went home. And then at 8:16 PM that night, he did the unthinkable.
He hit send on an epic ‘fuck all y’all’ email that went out to 100 people in the company… at 8:16 PM… 10 hours after he was fired.
We all got it. The owner, the executive team, the legal team, the graphic designers, the landscapers, the maintenance guys, the restaurant managers, every lowly administrative assistant, and me, the corporate wine buyer. Every single person who had a corporate email address received his farewell fuck you message.
