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'TOP FIVE' women email forces company-wide apology

'TOP FIVE' women email forces company-wide apology

A London advertising firm has apologised after a worker sent a crude email ranking his female colleagues’ attractiveness.

The employee of The&Partnership caused anger at the firm after sending an email to the office on his last day of work, including a list of his ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ five female co-workers – The Evening Standard reports.

The employee’s email included a comment about one female colleague, which said: “If you were the last girl on earth, I would use you as bait to trap a wild animal I would be happier f***ing.”

Another list in the email, which was sent with the subject line ‘Bye Bye’, also included another offensive list, titled ‘TOP FIVE – if I’d Had a Few Too Many.’

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