Actually the very fact that he believes he could have done it, and was intending to do so, proves he is completely untrustworthy with any real power. Ergo no career in politics.
Enjoy,
Steven
Threatening one’s coworkers is generally not well received by most employers. Employment at will is a wonderful thing.
Ow. My head hurts from reading that. If the guy could compose something a little more eloquent and grammatically correct without so many damn misspellings, I would have considered that one decent note. However, I have to issue the following:
ALLCON [sub](“All Concerned”)[/sub]:
Me: Tripler (one “p”, one “r”)
Him: Tripplehorn*(two "p"s, no “r”)*
Bottom line: I had nothing to do with this. Pure coincidence that I share six letters with this guy’s name. Just as a precaution, I went ahead and updated my location field to indicate the fact I’m damn near 1000 miles from Utah anyway. . .
Tripler
I can spell. I can [sub]sometimes[/sub] flame. I can even spell when I flame.
And in today’s real world of politics, this disqualifies him how? :dubious:
Yours in Cecilian sardonicity,
Poly
Well, I am totally enraged. Like Mercury pointed out, this was a private (ha) exchange between ex-lovers. Why the fucking hell should this nasty letter cost Mr. Tripplehorn his job? The letter is not physically threatening at all, and the “blackball” talk is just talk. If this was a taped telephone conversation, and CheezyGirl went around the office playing the tape to people, or if she’d strewn hundreds of photocopies of a handwritten letter around capital hill, I wonder what the reaction would have been instead. I’ve never seen a more striking case of the medium affecting the message.
If I were running that office, I’d have reprimanded Kelly for sending a stupid email, then fired the intern that had forwarded it all over hell and creation. Sending the email was inappropriate in the first place, but forwarding it all over the place is even more so.
Here’s a giant FUCK YOU to Kay Bailey Hutchison, you cock-gobbling* sorrority girl washout.
*I don’t want to hear it.
I’m sorry, maybe it’s just me, but if a coworker was making threats about destroying my career (yes, even if he said he was just thinking about it), you bet I’d at least seriously consider reporting it to HR. I don’t give a damn if I’d dated him and he sent it from his home E-mail, he brought the workplace into it.
Hey, have you guys seen what Mr. Jonas L. Blank was up to at Skadden Arps this summer?. Full email at Snopes (natch).
neuroman, I disagree. This guy’s training up to be a politician. Politicians need to be, well… politic. The single most important skill for a politician is “how not to look bad in public.” This is clearly a skill this guy does not posses, and as such is not qualified for his position.