Lesbian wins unfair dismissal case over e-mails to her lover

[davidinalameda]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2-1465084%2C00.html

A DESIGNER who was dismissed for using a company computer to send explicit e-mails to her lesbian lover won her claim for unfair dismissal yesterday.
Helen Brearley, 41, was dismissed after dispatching hundreds of messages to Theresa Millward, 27, including one reading: “Lick me nice and slow.” Her bosses insisted they were right to get rid of her after claiming her standard of work slipped once she started sending the “offensive” messages


why would send such stuff from work anyway?

she was lucky

[trumad]

1. I prefer fast licking myself.

[davidinalameda]

2. yick

that is something that I didn't need a visual on

[Ian David]

3. The questions are:

1) How did they find out?
2) Did they look at anyone else's email?
3) Did anyone else get disciplined for the same things?
4) How do they document that her work suffered?
5) How did her performance compare to everyoe else's?
6) What were their stated email and privacy policies in the employee handbook?

On-edit:
She's a designer. We're supposed to expect and perhaps encourage this stuff from the creative-types.

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: Find out what kind of whiskey he's drinking, and send it to the rest of my generals.