Foreign Relations
I was working at a French company. We were working with a development team in Vietnam on some IT project at one point. The project manager they report to in HQ was French. They didn’t like him, and he knew it.
The Vietnamese team did some great job, and he wanted to find the correct words to congratulate them, hoping to smooth over their future relationship. He sent an awful “thank you” email:
“When we see the quality of your work, we can only realize how sad it is that we lost you guys as a colony!” The French expats in the Vietnam office told me they were hiding in shame for a full week after that…
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