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Italian telecommunications company Telecom Italia has received an Italian Supreme Court decision prohibiting it from firing a text-happy employee, Textually.org and UPI report.
In 2002, a Naples court decided in favor of Telecom's dismissal of an employee, publicly identified as Carlo T., who had sent 12,000 personal text messages (about $2,000 worth) from his work phone over the course of just ten months in 2000. The Supreme Court's decision overturned that lesser court's, citing precedents in which Telecom took these sorts of charges out of employees' paychecks.
Since it seems the Supreme Court didn't care about the probability that the employee was texting his friends instead of working, we'll go ahead and assume that the Court's official position is that on-the-job texting opens up office communication by making workers more sociable.
Now, what's more puzzling: That the company didn't just dock the employee's pay, or that the employee was confident enough of his strange case that he fought it in court for six years? [From: UPI via Textually.org]
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Subscribe to commentsvickiSep 19th 2008 12:51AM
OMG...where I work (Major Insuance company)I could be fired for sending an email to another coworker just asking anything that "corporate guidelines" say is not a work related issue ...people where I work have literally been fired for asking a coworker in email what time they were going to lunch... simply because it was not work related....a text message would be instant dismissal ...let alone 12,000 of them !!!
IanSep 19th 2008 4:17AM
looks like its time to change jobs... if you can't ask a coworker when they are going to lunch so you guys can coordinate getting lunch together then the company is just begging to be brought down. which insurance by chance? doubt ill get an answer but it would be nice to know so i never use them ever because they harass their employes.
textmeSep 19th 2008 10:12AM
Doubt you'll get an answer huh? Yea, cuz she's probably fired for sending this first message from work!