Man fired for message board posting calls in lawyers
John Oates writes in The Register:
A US man sacked after 16 years working for the same energy company is suing the firm after it dismissed him for making anonymous comments on an internet messageboard.
He is taking action against Allegheny Energy for misuse of legal process because he claims they filed a "John Doe" suit only in order to discover his identity, not to support further legal action. Clifton G Swiger of West Virginia is taking the action with the support of lobby group Public Citizen.
In November 2003 the energy firm filed a subpoena against Yahoo! to discover the identity of a poster called "ayeyawn" on a messageboard which was highly critical of Allegheny management. Ayeyawn, or Swiger, accused Allegheny management of "turn(ing a) respectable Blue Chip into a POS (piece of sh*t) he criticised the company's racial sensitivity programme saying: "We were force fed 'love thy n*gger' with [Allegheny Energy's] DIVERSITY program. Yet another brainstorm that was going to bring on tremendous growth, high dividends, and astronomical profits!"
posted by Fergie @ 11/02/2005 06:35:00 AM
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