Woman Fired For Using Uppercase In Email 364
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tomachi writes "An accountant in NZ has been awarded $17,000 NZD for unfair dismissal after her boss fired her without warning for using uppercase letters in a single email to co-workers. The email, which advises her team how to fill out staff claim forms, specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red, and a sentence written in capitals and highlighted in bold blue. It reads: 'To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below checklist.' Her boss deemed the capital letters too confrontational for her co-workers to read after they woke up from naptime."
Time to fire all lawyers (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, the time has to come fire all lawyers who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs!
hehehe (Score:5, Funny)
*sigh* heh... naptime?... confrontational?... heheh.... I don't know where to start... hehehe..
*sigh* OK, I'm done.
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:2, Funny)
you sir are fired.
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:5, Funny)
I think her boss was e.e.cummings.
NO (Score:1, Funny)
CAPSLOCK: IT'S CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!
My bad, Filtering error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I'm going to sue Slashdot for discrimination!
Re:Time to fire all lawyers (Score:4, Funny)
s/ who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs//g
Ob. bash.org (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.bash.org/?835030 [bash.org]
It's funny, 'cuz it's true. :)
Re:Ob. bash.org (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:4, Funny)
BUT EVERYONE LIKES B1FF'S POSTS!
(filter food)
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:3, Funny)
i think her boss was e.e. cummings.
FTFY.
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:2, Funny)
e e cummings
He hated punctuation & diacriticals too.
FTFY,
IN SOVIET NZ (Score:1, Funny)
E-mail UPPERCASE fire YOU !
BILLY MAYS HERE!!! (Score:4, Funny)
BILLY MAYS HERE!!!
TOO BAD I'M DEAD, OTHERWISE SHE WOULD BE WELCOME TO WORK WITH ME!
and here is something just to bypass /. caps filtering. I guess she didn't posted here much either.
Re:There must be more to this story... (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed. Even though the use of caps lock merits a summary hanging, it does not merit sacking.
Your suggestion is stupid and insane (Score:5, Funny)
Have you actually bothered to read the other story about the cannon build by a dad?
Notice anything? As big as it is, there is no way you can fit a laywer in there to fire them. Not unless you chop them into little bit firsts and that would get the gun powder wet and unable to fire.
No sir, firing lawyers is NOT the solution. Try again, or build a bigger cannon.
Re:Time to fire all lawyers (Score:5, Funny)
)>^_^)> The software is provided "as is" and the author <(^_^(<
)>^_^)> disclaims all warranties with regard to this <(^_^(<
)>^_^)> software including all implied warranties of <(^_^(<
)>^_^)> merchantability and fitness. <(^_^(<
Re:Time to fire all lawyers (Score:3, Funny)
s/ who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs/ out of a 700lb cannon/g
FTFY.
Re:Reality slowly creeps in (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe she just took an upper that morning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the real problem (Score:2, Funny)
Yes. HTML is high priority on my systems! It is always marked read first and ends fastest in my trash folder.
Perhaps... I should mention... this is all being done automatically by procmail.
Re:the real problem (Score:5, Funny)
is it all over yet? (Score:1, Funny)
people who believe in the apocalypse and end of world scenarios have it wrong. They look at war and fighting and annihilation and death camps and all of that and say this is why god is coming to put an end to things. but that shit has been going on for centuries and it hasn't made a difference. when i say the end of the world is near, its the above article that i would point at as the whole reason this god finally got up off his ass and did something. when you have stupid compounding stupid further compounding stupid in the form of legal framework with lawyers and government all about the formatting of some fucking email, yeah thats what will be the final trigger.
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, I'm no physicist, but the months may be shorter and/or follow a different sequence "down under". It is unsafe to assume that your understanding of the space/time continuum applies everywhere......
Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Time to fire all lawyers (Score:3, Funny)
It's the quietest yelling you've ever read.