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This Is How Email Scandals Start

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“At work, but not much to do.”

~ The status message of an accountant in China who was fired a few days later, thus preventing her from ranking any of her attractive co-workers.

Posted in Quote of the DayTagged PwC Email Hottiegate

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