Why You Should Be Careful With Your Work E-mail Address…
14 September 2006Via Chree’s World, there’s a perfect example of how you have to take special care of your reputation in the age of Google. A young investment banker named Lucy Gao in the United Kingdom sent off an e-mail with a hyper-controlling birthday invitation to a party at the Ritz - which was soon forwarded around her office and then around the world. It assigned people to arrive at specific, fifteen minute intervals, bragged on paying for the cake, and included this dress code:
STRICT DRESS CODE:
Gentlemen: Jacket, shirt, and please also bring a tie (no jeans,
trainers, flip-flops, polo-shirts)
Ladies: skirt/top, cocktail dress (no denim, min-skirts, flip-flips, bad
tastes)
Advice 1: It goes without saying that the more upper-class you dress,
the less likely you shall be denied entry.
Advice 2: Photos will be taken between 10pm to 10:30pm, and these will
be distributed once processed, therefore you may want to be
well-groomed!
Now there’s even a blog devoted entirely to this person that has dug up actual pictures of the infamous party. Needless to say, becoming this kind of Internet phenomenon isn’t a good way to advance your career - especially since every investment banker in London has likely heard of her from this. Even if they haven’t, a Google search of her name will bring up dozens of sites mocking her. Something that twenty years ago would have been a nasty rumor will now haunt her for life - so keep that in mind the next time you feel tempted to misbehave over e-mail. Today, you leave a trail that lasts forever.
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