Office worker sacked for writing emails in block capitals

[T_i_B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6120532/Office-worker-sacked-for-writing-emails-in-block-capitals.html

Vicki Walker was forced out of her job as an accountant at a healthcare company after colleagues complained that her emails were too "shouty" and confrontational.

A tribunal heard that she spread disharmony among her co-workers by sending missives with entire sentences in block capitals. She also behaved "provocatively" by highlighting key phrases in bold or red, her employer ProCare Health claimed.

In one office-wide email presented as evidence at her tribunal, she had typed in bold blue letters: "TO ENSURE YOUR STAFF CLAIM IS PROCESSED AND PAID, PLEASE DO FOLLOW THE BELOW CHECK LIST."

Mrs Walker, from Auckland, New Zealand, claimed it was "ridiculous" to describe the email as confrontational, saying that she was only trying to ensure that her colleagues filled out their forms correctly. She has now been awarded £7,000 ($17,000 NZD) after the tribunal found that she had been unfairly dismissed by ProCare in December 2007.

[SpiralHawk]

1. EXILE THIS VILE CREATURE TO GITMO

AN ABSOLUTE FREAKING OUTRAGE SHE DESERVES A FULL MEASURE OF REPUBLICON HOMELANDER KONZERVATIVE KOMPASSION KIWI STYLE.

[JVS]

2. FILL OUT THESE FORMS CORRECTLY RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!!

[Maru Kitteh]

9. BAH!

:rofl:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. HEY! WE'RE YOUR UNION! WE'RE HERE FOR YOU!

SO SHUT UP AND SIGN THE FUCKING FORM!

One virtual dollar to anyone who can name what movie that's from......

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. SHE MUST BE A WINGNUT

THEY LOVE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. Yeah, must be..........

:eyes: Nothing like reading closely, of course.

[Name removed]

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[Vickers]

4. PWN3D

:P

[MrModerate]

5. 2dum4wurds. not to mention capital letters. n/t

[tanyev]

6. YOU'RE FIRED!!!1!

[Maru Kitteh]

8. I WONDER WHAT HER FREEPER NAME WAS11!!!!!?

[SoCalDem]

18. probably CANUHEARMENOW

:)

[Historic NY]

10. I DELETE ALL E-MAIL IN CAPS. I WON'T EVEN READ THEM.

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. They are hard to read. I skip over all cap posts

[rucky]

11. She would've gotten a raise..

if she reduced it to 2-point italics on the back of the page.

[KittyWampus]

12. IN CHINA THEY WOULD EXECUTE HER AND HARVEST HER ORGANS!!!

[Javaman]

13. THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PHOTOS!!!

OR EXAMPLES OF HER WORK!!!!

[Historic NY]

17. found her photo & e-mail

[JBoy]

14. "Please do follow the below check list"?

She should have been fired for butchering the English language.

[pipi_k]

15. I've run into people in various other online groups who did this, and

when asked why they write everything in all caps, their reply was, "I have bad eyesight and have to write in all caps".

OK. Fine.

But when asked how they manage to read what other people write when none of it is in all caps, they have no answer.

so apparently they only read what they write.


sigh...it takes all kinds...

:shrug:

[krispos42]

16. !!!

[nyc 4 Biden]

19. MAYBE HER CAPS LOCK WAS STUCK!!!1!1!!

[TexasObserver]

20. GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!!

[Lagomorph]

22. oH dAMN!

[Edweird]

23. FUCK YEAH CAPSLOCK

[Cresent City Kid]

24. tHAT HAPPENS TO ME AT WORK

i FORGET THE CAPSLOCK IS ON AND MAKE ALL THE LETTERS i WANT TO CAPITALIZE SMALL WHEN i HIT "sHIFT". bUT IT ONLY TAKES ONE SENTENCE TO FIGURE IT OUT AND FIX IT.

[johnfunk]

27. VINDICATION AS MORAN EMPLOYERS PAY OUT BIG!!!1!

I hate CAPS LOCK e-mails, but I say YOU GO VICKI!