Man Fired for Sending 12,000 Texts From Work Phone Can Keep Job, Says Court!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:15 pm

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.

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