E-Mail Mocking Obama Is ‘Exhibit A’ in Wrongful-Firing Suit

[Newsjock]

Source: Wired

The president of a Midwest office supply company is in court after a salesman claimed the boss’ pre-election e-mail rant against Barack Obama amounted to an edict: Vote for Obama and you’re fired.

The lawsuit (.pdf) claims the president of KK Office Solutions’ pre-election e-mail criticizing Obama to company employees was no joke and instead resulted in the firing of a pro-Obama salesman, Elliot Snell, who openly made it known he supported and voted for Obama.

... Among other things, the Oct. 29 2008 e-mail said if Obama is elected, changes would be made: sales personnel would pool commissions to give underachievers a “fair shake.” Hourly wage earners will pool wages and overtime to “help those who are ‘too busy’ for overtime.” Tretbar maintains the company president did not write the message but instead forwarded it on to employees.

What’s more, the e-mail, “Exhibit A” in the case, said top managers would be referred to as “the government.”

Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/obama-email-exhibit-a/

[ET Awful]

1. I think you have a typo . . . you left off one of the "K"s in the company name

:)

[malaise]

3. DUzy

:D

[bluestateguy]

2. A lot of businessmen did this in the 1896 election (McKinley v. Bryan)

Intimidating their workers to vote for McKinley. Only back then it was legal.

[Arkana]

4. How utterly classy.

I'd have quit on the spot.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Only 1 K away from being properly named

[zbdent]

6. when you consider that you can get fired for forwarding goofy e-mails

using your business e-mail address (albeit more than just one or two times), I thing Snell has a case ...

Except that John Roberts will probably somehow find his name pulled "at random" for deciding whether or not a case goes to SCOTUS ... and if he doesn't, he's got several lackeys in tow who will vote with his "non-judicial-activist" tendencies ...