Comments on: Woman Fired Over a “Confrontational” E-mail http://neoacademic.com/2009/08/31/woman-fired-over-a-confrontational-e-mail/ technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard N. Landers http://neoacademic.com/2009/08/31/woman-fired-over-a-confrontational-e-mail/#comment-225 Richard N. Landers Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:21:03 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=366#comment-225 Well, I think as the number of Millenials in the workforce continues increasing, this is only going to get worse. Many of this group have been chatting online since they were pre-teens, and we’ve already seen some of the side-effects of no one instructing these people in how to behave online.

I hadn’t heard that about the military though! Now that I work 5 miles from Norfolk Navy Base, maybe I should ask someone…

]]> By: George A Guajardo http://neoacademic.com/2009/08/31/woman-fired-over-a-confrontational-e-mail/#comment-223 George A Guajardo Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:51:34 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=366#comment-223 I know this is probably not funny to either of the parties involved, but I can’t shake the image of of a manager reading the email and replying “OMG Caps!” This is a near compulsory response whenever someone writes a message in all caps on discussion forums, or multiplayer games. I never thought this would leak out into the professional world, much less lead to termination and litigation.

On a related note, I was once told that people from the US military are trained to use all caps when typing. I learned this when approached a co-worker about this once. So before anyone else gets fired, lets get on the same page about this.

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