PwC accountant's email is global hit

[snopes]

An accountant has gained global celebrity after sending a scathing email to colleagues when he lost his job.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...lobal-hit.html

[Not_Done_Living]

Seems like a benign e-mail to me.. "the work sucked, i sucked at it, the color scheme sucked, and i was a relativly anonymous person in a large company"

He didn't spill any details about the corporate swinging pools, who was doing who, or who was defrauding the company.

Not all that interesting at all really.

[Joostik]

Something tells me this isn't going to help him finding a new job.

So, those of you I'm not actually friends with, I hope we'll all continue to manage avoiding staying in touch.

Sounds like a great colleague. He will be dearly missed.

[Richard W]

The quality of viral email has really dropped, hasn't it? What happened to accidentally broadcasting your sex life to the CEO, or asking for a refund because your vacuum cleaner broke while you were having sex with it, or whatever? Things with sex in anyway... Or just being completely incompetent in a hilarious way?

That email was probably vaguely amusing to people who worked with the guy (and he seems to have only sent it to people he knew, not the whole company) but I can't imagine who would think "That's hilarious, I'd better forward it to everybody I know!".

I suppose I can imagine forwarding it to a friend within the company that wasn't on it before (as people would no doubt be amused and talk about it to relieve the boredom), and once it has "FW: " in the subject line, there are people who just automatically forward it because it must be a funny joke, but still, I don't see why anybody would forward it outside the circle of people in that department who knew the guy. Let alone write a newspaper article about it. It's not even August any more.

Then again, they are accountants I suppose...