The email sounds like it was written by someone angry and hurt and desperate to "do something" (the hypothetical "he would have been terminated" is revealing).

The email sounds like it was written by someone angry and hurt and desperate to "do something" (the hypothetical "he would have been terminated" is revealing). The actual interpretation of who is being asked to resign is ambiguous. At the least it should be a lesson not to hastily send company-wide emails while gripped by extreme emotions. Agreed the headline here is a bit of click baiting.