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Career Clinic: beware the email that could get you sacked

Forwarding work documents to your personal email may have severe career consequences

Question: I'm an analyst at a major bank. I applied for a job with another bank and they asked me to send across some examples of my work. So I sent them a confidential internal document. My current employer saw that I sent the document to my personal email address and now wants me to sign a document saying that I haven't distributed the document to anyone else. I've got plenty of dirt on the bank that I could use, but don't want to ruin my career. What should I do?

Julie Morris, a partner at Slater & Gordon, answers:

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