There are a lot of reasons to treat your employees with respect. It’s the decent thing to do. You’ll have less absenteeism. You’ll have employees who like working for you.
You won’t be mocked on Twitter.
This information comes a little too late for John Soden, who sent this really crabby email to his employees on Good Friday.
John’s employees didn’t like this email very much. And who can blame them? There’s nothing wrong with expecting, even imploring, your employees to come to work on a holiday. But a good email rule of thumb is that you shouldn’t write things that you wouldn’t say in person. So either John is really rude in general and this is par for the course, or he should have thought twice before sending this out.
Actually, he should have thought twice anyway, because somebody (probably somebody below the MD level) created a Twitter account on his behalf, posting Tweets making fun of him. And his email is now making the blog rounds, so he’s probably in for more ridicule.
The III at the end of his name is getting special attention.
