Posts Tagged ‘abbey sherwell’

Unlike Abbey, Ben knew to just cut and run

Geoff was wrong. We’re not past this. Instead of one or two people illuminating themselves in the bright light of professional idiocy, we have an entire solar event of screwups: one that wasn’t begun with Abbey and that won’t end with the Facebook girl.

It’s less than a day since the latest Facebook career disaster and already we have another contender for the crown of ‘prize tit’, this time provided by the IRC quote site Bash.org.

Just remember: the internet is only a great way to hide your identity if you don’t fill in your personal details.

What a fool! (via Applicant.com)

Abbey Sherwell’s adventures in career trashing taught us all to be super careful while tapping out a quick wrathful tirade. Lately I’ve all been composing e-mails with the To and CC fields empty, just in case I absent mindedly leak some supressed fury into the message.

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UK newspapers: toilet paper for the inky arsed

Journalism in the UK is regarded as being some of the most exciting in the world. We’d like to think this is because we have that famous British sense of irony, but mostly it’s because our papers really enjoy pissing people off.

As a foreigner coming into the country, picking a paper can be daunting. The paper you read can define not only your politics, but also your social status and even your level of intelligence. The British are notoriously snobbish about many things, and we love nothing more than to exhale sadly at someone’s choice of paper.

Never fear, though: as always, we’re here to help. Read on for the bluffer’s guide to the UK press. From the hallowed pages of the Financial Times to the dirty toilet paper of the Daily Star, you need never worry again that your colleagues will see the paper you’re reading and think, “My god, that people are as dumb as a bag of hammer.”

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Abbey Sherwell: not laughing now

You’ve got to feel a bit sorry for Abbey Sherwell.

On Friday, Kate tripped her way across the iwilldothatformoney office with a big excited smile on her face. You can always tell when Kate’s happy because she loses all sense of coordination. Once we’d picked her up off the floor and mopped the blood off her face, she told us to check our inboxes for – and I quote – “the most awesome email [she’s] ever read ever”. We then packed Kate into an airtight box and posted her to A&E.

The email was indeed awesome. It was incredibly funny in a “I can’t believe someone would be stupid enough to write this” sort of way. Even better, it had then been sent to exactly the wrong person, who had then forwarded it on to all his business contacts. And they’d forwarded it to their friends, who forwarded it again and within a day it was sat in Kate’s boyfriend’s inbox. That’s how we got it. That’s how the internet works these days.

So you’ve got to feel a bit sorry for Abbey Sherwell. She made a huge mistake – a proper schoolboy error – and now look what’s happened. She’s a budding internet meme.

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The following “oops I can’t believe somebody actually wrote and sent that” email arrived in my inbox today. I removed the addresses & contact details, and here it is for your enjoyment on a Friday. Read from the bottom up for a lesson hard learned on insulting customers!

So what do you think – should Abbey Sherwell be saved?

Yes – or – No

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