Banker Facing Sack after Sexy Email Sent Around the World
“A high-flying City of London banker is facing the sack after using his office computer to boast about his sex life in an e-mail that spread around the world. Robert Imlah has already been suspended by investment house JP Morgan Cazenove after he sent his friends a string of explicit messages from his computer at the investment bank about a sexual encounter. The 25-year-old corporate finance analyst boasted about sleeping with an unnamed woman and colleagues praised him for it, calling him ‘Immi the pimp daddy’. The e-mails have caused major embarrassment for the company after being forwarded to thousands of people globally… The conversation between Mr Imlah and his friends revolved around a sexual liaison with the woman, who he described as having ‘huge nails’. Mr Imlah then claimed he was meeting another woman he identified as ‘Lauren’ later that evening and boasted it would be unlikely that he would use any contraception. The e-mails were forwarded as proof by outraged female recipients that ‘men are vile’. One woman wrote on the e-mail chain sent to offices around the world: ‘This is just so wrong although apparently totally normal for men’s conversations … they are so going to get fired.’ Among the recipients of the forwarded message were colleagues at US parent company JP Morgan, which has strict codes of conduct covering attitudes towards women and minority workers.” — Scotsman.com (UK)
Here’s the pertinent excerpt of the email chain in question. It’s hard not to feel disappointed reading it. There’s not much in the way of juicy detail, and it’s hardly as outrageous as some of the other email scandals that have gotten people fired. In fact, it’s hard to understand why the outrage focuses on Mr. Imlah and not on the guy in the chain who admits to meeting “this Rach tonight for a few” because he’s “so bored being ‘committed.’” That guy’s actually cheating on somebody, which you’d think would be more egregious than Mr. Imlah’s mere mention of “banging Lauren.”
That being said, the real issue is not Mr. Imlah’s sex habits but rather his use or rather abuse of his work email account. Face it. Lots of guys write emails like this. Lots of guys write emails like this at work. But that is what Yahoo and Gmail and Hotmail are for — to provide personal accounts that you can (probably) access through your corporate firewall so that you can gab about the broads or the dudes or the whatevers that you’re banging.
On an individual level, it’s reckless to use your work email to discuss your sex habits — partly because it could get you fired, but partly also because those emails belong to your employer. On a corporate level, a company is right to reprimand employees who transgress these policies. Why? Well, think about it. Suppose you’re saving all your hard-earned money for college, or to buy a house, or to prepare for retirement. You take all that money and invest it with JP Morgan. Do you really want decisions about your finances interspersed with jokes about banging Lauren and getting a few off Rach? Of course not. It’s unprofessional. It shows a lack of focus on the matter to hand, which is your money. If a banker wants to combine business with pleasure, he should go invest in a porn film or a whorehouse. Otherwise keep it out of the workplace.
“keep it out of the workplace”, Oh how true that simple statement is, as many out-of-work men have come to realize while scouring the unemployment offices for new sources of income.
Very seldom does an over-inflated ego and common sense hold hands, especially when someone is in any position of power (either real or imagined).
The use of any computer at work can be traced and reread, no matter how hard you try to delete your tracks. It stays on the hard drive indefinately and can be retreived by a computer expert.
Common sense dictates that in this day and age, just about anyone who is the least bit computer savvy, would already know this.
As far as using your office computer to send any type of nonprofessional e-mail….just plain stupid. Most companies have a computer manager, who monitors all sorts of computer activity (and yes, e-mail too). Computer managers usually report to someone higher up in the echelon of authority.
Always makes me glad I’m the network admin, and our “chief compliance officer” is ex-frat boy who likes to forward crude emails.
I work in the same industry (investments) and it is a crude and foul mouthed industry - not just with guys. My co-manager at one company was called “Foul Mouth Liz”.
AT 25 this got is NOT a “A high-flying City of London banker”, look you grad high school at 18, go to college for 4 years to get a BA (age 22), then you need a masters (age 24), at best he had been employed for a year.
If he had any serious book of accounts JP would have just “suspended” him for a few weeks on paper.
Rules are for little pecople.
wrong. in the uk all you need to work for JPM is a BA which only takes 3 years. 25-18-3=4 years. He could be a 1st year associate.
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