My Life With IT

A man decided to sue IBM after he was dismissed for surfing adult chatroom. Did I read right? I guess anything that can be sued, will be sued. The excuse was given that he was still under “traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an Army patrol in Vietnam.”

There are other ways to treat the stress rather than by visiting such chatrooms, right? If you really feel the need, maybe you’d do it at home rather than at work. It reduces the risk of losing the rice bowl.

This man also argued that “other workers with worse offences were disciplined less severely – including a couple who had sex on a desk and were transferred.” Now that everything is related to it, he sure knew how to argue his case, he was about to retire in a year, at age 56. Now, why on earth would this guy jeopardize his retirement plans? Does this lawsuit claim any pension if he wins?