Women fired after cyber catfight over ham sandwich

The email of the species is more deadly than the mail

TWO SECRETAIRES have been fired from a top law company after a cyber catfight over a ham sandwich erupted on the firm's network.

The office of m'learned friends at Aussie Allens Arthur Robinson was rocked by the row, which seems to have involved a lot more than the two fired secretaries with everyone in Sydney taking sides.

According to the Aussie Daily Telegraph, it all began when Katrina Nugent sent a group email to colleagues in the firm's Sydney head office asking if anyone had stolen her lunch.

The email said that she had put ham, some cheese slices and two slices of bread which was going to be for her lunch in the company fridge and someone half inched them.

She complained that she had no extra cash and wanted said ham sandwich ingredients back, in their original format, or the cash back.

Another secretary, Melinda Bird, was thoughly cheesed off at the sandwich email and said that Nugent had probably left her lunch on another floor. This is fighting talk among Aussie secretaries and thus the war began.

The emails started getting nasty with Nugent saying that Bird was a dumb blonde and Bird saying that being brunette didn't necessarily make you smart.

Nugent replied that Bird couldn't keep a bloke either and it all started to go downhill from there.

The exchange so amused the staff that copies started to be circulated and some of them joined in. Then they started sending copies to their mates in other law firms and employees from Westpac, Deloitte, Macquarie Bank and JP Morgan joined in.

The PR department sensing tremors in the force intervened and fired both secretaries and ordered the others who passed the emails around to be disciplined.

A spokesman for either Allens, Arthur, or Robinson told the Aussie press that email was a business tool, not a personal messaging system. The use of it in this case was not in any way acceptable, nor is that the way the company expect people to treat their work colleagues.

It is interesting that they fired the secretaries and not the lawyers who passed the emails around.

However no-one has ever found the person who nicked Nugent's lunch, and the company does not appear to be that interested in finding him or her.

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