This memo posted on FuckedCompany.com – The Dot-com Deadpool speaks for itself, basically:
From: Julie Meyer
Sent: 21 January 2003 14:22
To: All staff
Subject: The final straw.I see that whoever has been sending our confidential emails to a certain website has done it again. I am not amused by this. This is a complete betrayal of my trust, my good name and my investment in you as a team.
I will be interviewing everyone regarding this and as from now all internet access is restricted to sites on our client list only. If you want external access, please speak to either myself or Bundeep. Email will be restricted to those on the company address list and attachments will be vetted by myself. All company mobile phones will be restricted to certain numbers also due to the abuse of international calling.
This Friday a number of staff are leaving and we had planned a dinner and drinks at O’Neills. In light of these events this has been cancelled.
Let me warn you all that I will not stand for this behaviour from a team of professionals.
Julie
Somebody must have made this up, right? Nope, Nick Denton says it’s for real.
UPDATE: Now he says it’s not. OK, but how come I never heard of Julie Meyer until a couple of weeks ago if she’s the Queen of the Internet and all? Brits have an odd take on modern life.
Hamfisted management strikes again.
But is there a solution for such things, other than ridicule?
It seems this memo was a scam, which I guess should have been apparent from the fact that it’s all impossible to enforce.
I can’t comment on this particular posting, but I know that at least two of the other postings on the site are real as I too received them while an employee there. It does not surprise me that this has come back to haunt her she is the most inept people manger on the planet, and with about 40 employees having left this year(current staff is 6)she’s only in a flap as she doesn’t know where to start looking for the perpetrator.