How to Quit Your Job if You Want a Radical Career Change
It is an email that will probably make most senior managers squirm in their seats.
An employee at a media agency in London has decided to send a leaving speech detailing his grievances with a company manager to all members of staff.
And worse still – that email has now gone viral after it was posted online, with its hashtag trending on Twitter.
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In the email Mr Allen also alleges the manager has jokingly referred to the Paralympics as the ‘Spastic Olympics’ and openly claimed to be proud ‘not to have a drop of Jewish blood in him’.
He claims he ‘regularly made sexist and other bigoted remarks’ and ‘took a female colleague out for a drink on the day he interviewed her, then later took her back to the MEC offices that night and had sexual relations with her in the meeting rooms on the 3rd floor’.
He said the allegations were ‘common knowledge throughout the team’ and said ‘it is hard to fathom that such a man is responsible for the work well-being of over 30 staff’.
Before signing off the message he wrote, ‘I am writing this message in order to expose the failings and protect others in future’ and ‘I am a good human being who treats people with respect.’
‘Not one thing on this email has been exaggerated or made up. This is my truth to you all.
‘No doubt I fully expect the above to be ripped apart but as long as the truth is out there then that’s all I can do.’
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You can say that this is a dangerous or fatal career move, but then, I don’t think that an honest person would have a chance at a successful career in an organization like that.
I have to give him kudos for raw courage and for doing the right thing.
Maybe next time around, an abusive bigot boss will think twice because some disgruntled employee might expose him and ruin HIS career.
That assumes the email’s charges are accurate. I have no way to know if they are. But one thing life has taught me is this: People who say ‘I am a good human being who treats people with respect.’ — aren’t.