Coworker creates a fake HR email to "secretly" air out his grievances, quickly gets caught by IT and fired: 'He said it was “just a social experiment.”'

• "Coworker created a fake HR email to 'discipline' people"

  
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• First of all, that is a bad plan. Like, what? You really didn't think people would know it's you? Also, you very much underestimated your IT team, because they very promptly traced the emails to you and got you fired. So yeah, career advice: Don't do what this guy did.  

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