Woman Fired For Using Uppercase In Email

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

[hernick]

Yes, the time has to come fire all lawyers who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs!

hehehe

[Normal Dan]

hehehe HAHAH heeheeeheeeheee HAHAHAHAAHAA!!!
*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?

[Anonymous Coward]

you sir are fired.

Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW?

[SQLGuru]

I think her boss was e.e.cummings.

NO

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[Anonymous Coward]

s/ who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs//g

Ob. bash.org

[schon]

http://www.bash.org/?835030 [bash.org]

It's funny, 'cuz it's true. :)

Re:Ob. bash.org

[religious freak]

LOL, I dunno why, but that's pretty funny! Can't stop laughing - I think I've got a case of the Mondays or something!

Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW?

[dkleinsc]

BUT EVERYONE LIKES B1FF'S POSTS!

(filter food)

Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW?

[dgatwood]

i think her boss was e.e. cummings.

FTFY.

Re:DO I GET MODDED DOWN NOW?

[Anonymous Coward]

e e cummings

He hated punctuation & diacriticals too.

FTFY,

IN SOVIET NZ

[Anonymous Coward]

E-mail UPPERCASE fire YOU !

BILLY MAYS HERE!!!

[PhiberOptix]

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...

[BrokenHalo]

I don't see this as a story about someone being fired for using caps lock

Indeed. Even though the use of caps lock merits a summary hanging, it does not merit sacking. ;-)

Your suggestion is stupid and insane

[SmallFurryCreature]

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.

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Re:Time to fire all lawyers

[theskipper]

s/ who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs/ out of a 700lb cannon/g

FTFY.

Re:Reality slowly creeps in

[brusk]

Until one executive officer decides it is permanently Tuesday.

Maybe she just took an upper that morning

[brusk]

And that's why everyone is on her case. It's not as though she was doing anything shifty. If I were her boss, I'd just sent her a letter, explaining how some minuscule changes could fix things. Instead of firing her, he should have put on some Dvorak and calmed down, or at least sent a page up to ask the board of the company. In the future, the key thing the firm could do is find an appropriate space and pick up the tab for a function that would teach alternate methods for controlling oneself; I'm sure that would bring significant returns. But them's the breaks, I guess.

Re:the real problem

[koinu]

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

[obarel]

to be honest I'm actually sick of websites that use html stop they just don't look right on my teleprinter stop less markup and more content is what I say stop

is it all over yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[Runaway1956]

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a physicist. No I don't have a point, but bragging on Slashdot is about as useful as this degree will ever be

Re:Time to fire all lawyers

[Kreigaffe]

It's the quietest yelling you've ever read.