Hah, it's the business use of web/email they fire you for. Go read
your terms of employment, and the reference to "IT acceptible use
policy" that you inadvertantly agreed to.
There have been cases in the uk where they have done this as it's
much cheaper to hunt out employees who have sent dodgy emails/had a
sexual advert popup/etc than to actually pay people redundancy.
Note that i agree it's a bit harsh to get the guy fired. Still,
who really wants to work for a company that will fire you over a
comment you make on a mailing list?
Daniel.
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Reumann
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2005 17:42 To: Struts
Users Mailing List Subject: Fired???? was...Re: Struts Books
Recommendations
Mark Galbreath wrote the following on 7/6/2005
10:19 AM:
Thanks to whomever emailed last weeks nonsense
thread to the Director
of the Board of Elections. It made me look like
a racist and I was
fired this morning. The State is also looking
into whether my use of
an official email address for that discussion is
in violation of state
law. You did your work well, you low-life
bastard.
Signing off.... Mark
Whoever did send something is such a loser it's
not even funny. At least
step forward and admit who you are. I constantly
here bigotted stuff on
mailing lists and forums, yet I don't go running
like a little baby to
find out their employeer so I can "tattle" on them
like a 3rd grader.
I'd much rather the internet be open for a free
exchange of ideas
(regardless of whether we agree with them or not)
without having to fear
someone is going to hunt down who I am and state
my comments to my
employeer or wife.
I can't believe I now have to watch what I say on
this mailing list.
Guess I will be making up a gmail account that
doesn't use my real name
just to help protect myself from losers like this
person.
It's sad the same thing happened to a guy working
at Allstate who
happened to post that he felt homosexulaity was
wrong on a non-company
related website
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44961
The irony is I guess Mark should have said how
"The US is so evil for
being in Iraq" or "How he hates pro-life
Christians" and maybe he would
have gotten a promotion. Or better yet, what if he
was gay and posted
all over some homosexual website about how he
wanted to do all these
sexual things with some other males and farm
animals, and I as his
employeer, found out about it and found it was
offensive so I fired him.
I will bet you *anything* that the ACLU would be
on my back so fast it
wouldn't even be funny and I as the employeer
would lose my job for
firing him! I just love the double-standards in
the U.S. today. A guy
can get state funding from the National Endowment
of the Arts by putting
a crucifix in a jar of urine and calling it 'art',
yet at the same time
people get fired for off-color comments they make
on a mailing list?
