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What people do remember, forever, is truly malicious behavior. I’ll share a specific example. I worked for a manager who, in addition to cheating me out of a significant amount of money, decided it was ethically OK to break into my private email, read over 10,000 messages, and then brag about reading my mail to colleagues (with color commentary). I have since corroborated this with four independent sources, three of whom never worked for him.

I was willing to forgive getting screwed financially and move on, but the invasion of privacy was so over the line, that’s something I’ll never forgive or forget.

The point is that most people are forgiving if you make a mistake. Nobody’s perfect, and most of us work in offices where dysfunction and inefficiency is commonplace. However, if you willfully damage people, then you may well find yourself on someone’s black list, and that it’s very difficult to get off that list.

Fortunately, that’s a pretty rare situation.

- Segan