These guys are partners rather than employees? Wow. This is a bad way to talk to your employees, but a far worse way to talk to your partners. Your partners wo

These guys are partners rather than employees? Wow. This is a bad way to talk to your employees, but a far worse way to talk to your partners. Your partners would be well advised to cut you out of the project... or perhaps to dump the project entirely since (a) it doesn't seem to be going too well, and (b) you're obviously not that committed to it yourself because you're working on something else right now. The real problem here is not that you've destroyed your project (or at least your role in it) and alienated your friends by sending one douchey email; it's that you apparently don't realize that this is what you've done.