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I turned off the auto-play jazz ’cause it was starting to annoy my wife.

It seems that each December I have a bad tendency to burn my bridges and run, though the burning and running is purely coincidental, the effect is the same. Almost exactly one year prior to this past December, at a job that I liked I made the terrible mistake of replying to an email that I should have ignored and/or reported. It just so happens that this reply contained a foible with something to do about my affiliate website http://www.coinsales.net. Naturally, I didn’t expect that the email would go through, but nevertheless, it did, and boy was that a mistake.
If I were to have sent this email out of malicious intent, there are several things I did that I would not have done. Namely, use my legitimate website, use my legitimate IP address, and use my legitimate email address. Later that day, when checking my email, there were thousands of reply emails from everyone and their monkey’s uncle asking to be removed from a non-existent list. I think the real problem was when I sent another email, not replying to the original message but to the originally targeted email address, saying, “Spammity spammity spam.” So, later that day I received a phone call from a fella from the IT Security team that I used to work so closely with. When he first questioned me about it, I played dumb, then after about 20 seconds of prodding, I confessed. Of course, it did me no good, apparently there were several rumors flying around that I hacked into the server using my access and set up this terribleness to do what I did. It was of course, a rumor, yet I had nothing to disprove such allegation. Naturally, because this caused all kinds of havoc, the (then new) head honcho was apparently ranting and raving and wanting to fire me, and rightly so, I did something stupid, though, it would’ve been nice to have been given the opportunity to make amends.
I was asked not to come back.

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