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."

Comments

All caps: an indicator for insufficient education?

[Anonymous Coward]

There seems to be a tendency for people with less education to more often use all caps. Perhaps it looks more "official" (and emphasizes importance) to them because all the "important" forms they have to fill out are written in all caps (somewhat less the case in other languages than English).

Re:Her boss wanted her gone

[nosferatu1001]

But when the company illegally fires her for no reason and with no warning she has a right to complain.

You have some screwed up employer yay! mentatlity.