Woman Fired For Sending All Caps E-mail

Woman Fired Sending Caps E-mail - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 2nd Sep, 2009 - 4:38pm

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1st Sep, 2009 - 11:14pm / Post ID: #

Woman Fired For Sending All Caps E-mail

Absolutely ridiculous! It seems to me they were just looking for an excuse to fire her!

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A woman in New Zealand was reportedly awarded $17,000 for wrongful termination after she was fired for using bold, uppercase letters in an e-mail to co-workers.

Vicki Walker used a variety of bold, red and all-capped fonts when she gave colleagues detailed instructions on how to properly fill out forms, MyFOXNY.com reported.

"To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below checklist," the e-mail stated, according to MyFOXNY.com.

The company deemed the capital letters confrontational and fired her without warning in December of 2007, the Web site reported.

Walker said she was forced into much debt over the past two years, including a second mortgage on her home...


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Post Date: 2nd Sep, 2009 - 4:38pm / Post ID: #

Woman Fired For Sending All Caps E-mail
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This makes me wonder if there was something else that we are not being told about. What is the real reason she was fired.


 
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