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Originally Posted by rubicon
I had not addressed my opinion of the video itself but in my view there was nothing damaging about it.
If this was the only reason then I believe the guy's employer over reacted and perhaps should have simply admonished him or perhaps disciplined but firing?????? It makes the employer seem small if this was the case?????
This would be an interesting case to litigate because this guy videoed this piece on his own time and with his own equipment and because we have a David and Goliath scenario. Perhaps their is a valid legal concept I am missing??
Perhaps the Villages Media could claim copyright, etc but then they would have to sue the thousand upon thousands of people who video The Villages on a daily basis.
Perhaps they may make claim that the video was damaging but a sampling on this thread demonstrates that most people were favorable and hence the guy's video could be construed as a free and beneficial advertisement for TV.? We could go on... but without particulars ....................... to what avil
Perhaps as I stated previously we have a valid and legal situation where a company says I can fire you for anything or nothing and you can't do a darn thing about it and that ends it Perhaps they gave a cause for this termination? We don't know and while we can speculate we cannot pre-judge.
In the end I doubt for a number of reasons that a wrongful termination lawsuit will result anyway.
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In my opinion, the kid would be better off just to walk away from this. He should do fine with his future career.