In all these cases, bloggers were fired for postings that their employers objected to.
Spiggle said it's not clear if Ewing-Brown would have a case for being fired for refusing to serve someone due to his own political views, however, but he wasn't aware of any cases that had tested that question.
In some cases, workers have been fired for failing drug tests despite having prescriptions saying, in effect, that what they are doing is legal according to the laws of their states.
(In almost every conceivable case, firing someone for making a mistake on Twitter is an overreaction).Despite its leniency, US Airways took fast and decisive action to fix the problem.
In my years in the agency, I cannot recall a single case where anyone was fired for failing to perform.
In one case, an officer was fired for destroying police photographs that documented a suspect's injuries, allegedly at the hands of the officer's partner.
In any case, when someone is fired for doing a rotten job, you don't have to pretend he just went on a nice long vacation.
If that's the case, and you get fired for watching this, uh, sorry.
On Nov. 3, 2003 Twana Rose, a former director of career services at Career Education's Gibbs College branch in Montclair, N.J., sued the company, claiming she had been fired for reporting cases of fraud to her bosses at the school.
