Mr. Barrow was vice president of public relations at Grantham Enterprises for five years when heis position was terminated on August 1, 2016. He first discovered a gripe site around the beginning of July and bought it to president of Grantham, Robert Crawley’s attention. In this case, the “gripe sites” mentions that the Grantham’s bad waste-disposal practices and give some serious comments, which focused on Grantham’s policy in violation of safe-disposal practice and increase the profit by this. Mr. Crawley was infuriated and told Mr. Barrow to shut down immediately. However, after Mr. Barrow searched on the Internet, he found that these gripe sites usually were protected by free speech. He was afraid to violate the right to free speech, Mr. Barrow did not do what his boss wanted.
After thinking about the protection of free speech, Mr. Barrow did not shut down the gripe site, but drafted a press release about positive spin out the gripe site. Right after his boss found out that, he refused to shut down athe gripe site,. he thought that Mr. Barrow did nothing to stop this website. Mr. Barrow's boss was infuriated by his action.
Besides, Grantham has an annual evaluation of all workers each July. According to Elsie Hughes, director of human resources at Grantham Enterprises, Sshe said that it is an “at-will” employment relationship between Mr. Barrow and Grantham Enterprises. RegaAccording to the employment record, Mr. Barrow usually received the highest ranking in all categories until this most recent result of the evaluation on July 20. Although He got a couple of negative comments of excessive absenteeism for his job, Mr. Crawley still has a positive view on this issue, and tolsaid to Mr. Barrow thato takinge as much time as he needed. By this view, Mr. Barrow was surprised that he could and was terminated by thiese reasons.
AlsFurthermore, another comment was from Mr. Barrow’s colleagues in his department. He was accused of forcing his colleagues to work overtime. This evaluation also indicated that Mr. Barrow got a negative result of evaluation in recent years about excessive absenteeism and complaints from his colleagues thabout forcing them to overwork. These notations showed other employees have also received one of these, but not for both. This is the first time that an employee got both these two bad comments in the same evaluation. She also indicated that Mr. Crawley would have received Mr. Barrow's most recent evaluation on July 19.
Thiese accusations are also be hoeld onby another department. Mr. Barrow therefore thought it was not a big problem. He was also not called into his boss’s office until August 1st. Nevertheless, Mr. Crawley did not mention the result of the evaluation, but talked about the gripe website. Mr. Crawley accused that Mr. Barrow deliberately disobeyed his order and the situation about this website was out of control. A few hours later, his boss fired Mr. Barrow because of the evaluation.