WHAT??!!!!!!!!!!! FIRED??!!!! FOR CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUTRAGEOUS!!! :)

[rule: caps = yelling]

I think there is more to it than the story covers. I wonder if the email was the straw that broke the camels back.

Methinks there was a bit more behind the firing than an all-caps email.

I have always wondered why people, when new to the Internet, use all-caps until someone gently tells them to stop yelling.... What possessed them to use bad grammar to begin with? We went through this with my mom-in-law. A whole letter LIKE THIS!!! Augh!

Bold is for yelling, Red is for there must be blood, Blue is bruising.

Her typing is violent !

So...I take it cartoonists wouldn't move too far up the ladder with this Auckland business....

ummm after they woke up from a nap? Was it a group nap? Is ProCare Health a day care???

I'll bet she has tried unsuccessfully to get her colleagues to submit their claims on time in the proper format for some time. And when they haven't in the past, and have been told the deadline was missed -"too bad", they appealed to a higher authority and were granted exemption from the policy. That likely entailed her staying overtime to cut cheques for people who have been mollycoddled by the boss and her monthly statements would have needed recalculating in order to balance. Believe me when I say "I've been in her shoes!"

I have tried to gently explain to my Mother-in-law that it is hard to read all caps but she insists on sending emails this way - and in Times Roman to make it worse. Ahhhhh.... I told her it was equivalent to yelling and she said I was overreacting. I need an email etiquette site to send to her anonymously!

I hate it when people put their entire message in the subject line.

The few people I know who write emails in all-caps tend to speak in all-caps as well.

Im sure they were looking for a reason to get rid of her and they found something.

Agree with Linda. If you read the NZ article you'll see that this woman is helping co-workers meet deadlines to get paid, not randomly yelling.

This is absurd!

Naptime?!

Wow that is pretty unjust it seems. I understand that using a red font, bold, and all caps is forward nut really that's the point. Sometimes you need to communicate certain things and make it loud to make sure you get your point across. Ultimeatly it's for the readers benefit. On the other hand, if this particular woman was a known bully, the company had constant problems with her, it was deliberatly meant to be rude and had given her previous warnings then maybe it was just.

She must have been angry to capitalize.