I’ve done this before… You write a raging text message about someone and then because they’re on your mind you end up sending it to them. It is very, very awkward and not something you can mend easily. Good thing it was my dad and I don’t think he can read texts. But it’s the perfect way to end friendships, relationships, or in this case, get fired.

That’s what happened to Louise Nesbitt who worked (yes, note the past tense) for Dragon Mountain Gold in Australia. She “accidentally sent an unflattering text message about her boss” to her boss. I cringe for her.

The text was mean to go to her daughter’s boyfriend who does plumbing in the building. The message called her boss, Robert Gardner, a “complete dick”.

As soon as she had realised what she had done she sent another message to Gardner saying “Rob please delete without reading. I am so so so sorry. Xxx” and then another that said “Rob … that is not how I feel. My sense of humour is to exaggerate. … That was a joke within our family.”

Needless to say Nesbitt was fired the next week for “gross misconduct”. She then filed for wrongful-dismissal, but her case was rejected. Commissioner Danny Cloghan “noted that her word usage appeared to be quite clear, intentional, and not humorous”.

To call a person a ‘dick’ is a derogatory term to describe them as an idiot or a fool. The word ‘complete’ is used to convey the message that the person is, without exception, an idiot or fool—they are nothing less than a ‘dick.’

If you want to say something nasty about your boss, rather stick to the back of a toilet cubicle door and for goodness sake, keep it anonymous.

[Source: Newser]