OMG — caps lock abuse gets woman fired

Oh, those kooky kiwis. In this story out of New Zealand, a woman in a healthcare administration office was fired after her supervisors deemed her e-mail correspondence "confrontational" because of her use (some would say overuse) of capital letters, colored and boldface fonts.

This New Zealand Herald article tells the tale of Vicki Walker, an accountant with ProCare Health, who was abruptly given the ax in 2007 after two years of employment.

While the company alleged that Walker's habit of "shouting," as writing in all capital letters is considered, was a regular occurrence, they only produced one e-mail when pressed by New Zealand's Employee Relations Authority, to which Walker appealed after her firing.