When I worked for Kemira near Ellesmere Port I was hauled over the coals because an ad, containing my email address, appeared on a public web site. I was off ill with depression at the time and the disciplinary letter did nothing to help at first.

However when I re-read it and noticed a few things like "An advertisment for Swinton Folk Fetival has appeared on Kemira's World Wide Web" and saw an obvious total lack of understanding of the Internet I was cheered up no end.

I Decided to fight my corner and pointed out that the site was nothing whatsoever to do with Kemira, me or any of my collegues. My email address (which was an invalid one btw) had been harvested elsewhere and used in good faith on a third party folk site. Had a letter from the site owner to prove it as well.

End result? Major egg on the face of Kemira management, and a big pay off for me followed by a lucrative contract in Europe with a sensible company!

Wouldn't you think people in power would learn to keep their mouths shut until they knew what they were talking about?

Then again....

In fairness I know that the manager in question has now resigned and has been replaced by someone far more knowledgeable. But it just goes to show that a lack of common sense and simple courtesy can be a dangerous thing!

Cheers

Dave the Gnome