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km89 t1_j6ohjbn wrote

Exactly what it sounds like.

It's not a super common term, so it really doesn't have a firm definition. But it's an email that you either get or receive that does damage to your professional reputation such that your career is effectively over, either in general or at a particular place.

For example, sending an email to the entire company criticizing upper management's decisions is likely to end your career at a particular place.

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dmazzoni t1_j6ol0pd wrote

That example is way too tame. Criticizing upper management's decisions might get you a reprimand and might make it hard for you to get a promotion but it's unlikely to be career-ending.

Career-ending would be:

  • Overt racism or sexism (e.g. I don't like working with X because they're a <racial slur>)
  • Taking credit for someone else's work
  • Embezzling money
  • Committing fraud
  • Making up outright lies to explain a negative outcome (e.g. we failed to sell more widgets because our whole sales team quit halfway through the quarter)
  • Offering or accepting a bribe
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Digitus___Impudicus t1_j6petjp wrote

We have in our business what I call "Resume Generating Events" or an RGE.

Example: You hear that James has not done backups for over a year and accounting just lost the Sql Database. RGE for James.

This is what you have done is so bad, whatever it may be, you need to go ahead and start printing your resume out.

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