Employee Sends 12,000 Text Messages

Apparently the Italian Supreme Court has ruled against Telecom Italia’s attempt to fire an employee who sent a whopping 12,000 private text messages on his work phone. The mountain of text messages ran more than $2,000 in terms of charges for his work phone between January and October of 2000. The court mentioned that Telecom Italia had previously penalized other employees for similar offenses with less extreme measures, and that employees must be treated in the same way.