Offensive Facebook Posting Leads To Dismissal

The perils of posting comments about fellow workers on social media networks are highlighted in Damian O'Keefe v Williams Muir's Pty Limited T/A Troy Williams The Good Guys where the applicant (O) allowed his frustration at not being paid his correct commission entitlements over a period of months to boil over into the following Facebook posting:

The Respondent's concern was that:

1. an employee had called a female employee a "c..t" and had done so publicly on his Facebook page where other employees could see it; and
2. the reference to "c..ts are going down tomorrow" constituted a threat to the Respondent's Operations Manager (T) who was responsible for sorting out the commission payments.