I worked for a semiconductor manufacturer (they were owned 50/50 by Toshiba and IBM and made mostly memory, including the PS1. Still the best company I ever worked for) Anyway, 9/11 happened and a lot of markets tanked, including technology. 1st Toshiba pulled out. The president was a Toshiba guy so IBM hired some schmuck from I forget where but he was horrible and a cut a lot of things to save $. Then IBM decided to bail and sold to a company called Micron who were even bigger assholes (they don't believe in giving yearly raises and other things) The new president IBM hired sent out this email which was so cringey the way he kissed Micron's ass (they were already in trouble with the government for certain practices) and rambled on and on about how wonderful they were and would be so honored to have the opportunity to work for them. I had a friend in the Tool Crib, which were contractors so they didn't get this email. I thought I'd forward it to him and put 'in other words please don't fire me!!! LOL' Later in the shift it hit me I never typed his name/email in...... It turned out I didn't hit forward, I hit reply!!! Micron eventually took over, got a bunch of tax breaks and other incentives, got the county to pay for all this work.... Then a couple months later sent most of the machines to a plant of theirs in Taiwan and laid pretty much everybody off.