Winner of the "Mosy Unprofessional Conduct by a VP ever" Award

Our Boss, who has just been promoted to VP of Sales and Marketing after a year of awful sales numbers (why was she promoted? We assume sleeping with the CEO helped her chances) sent everyone on our team this email, following a 7 am meeting that she sent out an email notice for at 10:30 PM the previous night (none of us are expected into work until past 8 normally so lots of us hadnt seen the email notice until the meeting was over)

"To those of you who did not attend my meeting this morning, here it is….

I realize I sent the invite at 10:30 at night for a 7:00 am meeting. But, it does say something about those who managed to receive my invite (and text) and make it. And, it proves what I am about to say.

I have been working for this company, this “mission” for 17 years. I, personally have been through 2 divorces, two pregnancies, 5 presidents, 4 possible buy-outs with job loss fears, working as a single parent, working for no pay at all, etc. I could go on and on. We have endured many stressful times over these years. But never have we been under the gun like we are now. We are supposed to be transitioning from a small company to the big leagues and all I see is lackadaisical, non-involved, uninterested and undevoted attitudes. You all joke about me and my Blackberry, never apart. You tell me I need a vacation and that I work long hours. Guess why. This is serious and I want to see the same dedication from everyone that works at this company. It is frustrating to see others putting in their 8 hours a day and forgetting everything as soon as their feet leave the front door. If you cannot step up and show some sincere hard work and dedication and determination, then leave now and stop wasting our time and the company’s money. You are all paid well and when you were hired you were told that this would be the challenge of a lifetime. It’s time to rise to the occasion or throw in the towel. I always prefer trying positive reinforcement before it gets to this, but that is obviously not working.

For those that attended the meeting, they were offered a bonus for the first national account Purchase Order received. A bonus out of my own pocket. You may want to ask around about that.

I was up all night thinking about this (and responding to 3:30 am e-mails). This is not the end of the company. That is not what this is about. This is the beginning of the Company we need to be..now. And, we need only the right people to get it done.

Feel free to respond.

V.P. Sales & Marketing"

SO..did you like the part about how working a full 40 hour work week means we are slackers?

but the icing on the cake came later in the day, when she sent out an email and sloppily didn't notice she had left the entire email thread between her and the CFO copied in the email in which she was asking him about when she would get her VP pay raise to $165,000 !!! THIS on the same DAY as she is ragging on us low level employees because the company is financially suffering and only SHE is dedicated enough.

By the way, I AM looking for other jobs....:-)