Feedback starting January 18, 1998
My comments are in [red brackets].
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:55:22 +0100
From: Andreas Olsson <andy@abc.se>
Subject: Awesome!!
I guess I'm not the only one by now who knows you story :)
I read one of your stories, and I´m truly amazed!
Hello? Is this what got you fired? Where´s the world going???
Ok, I know it's quite different in the states compared t where I live, Sweden, but... hey, this is insane!!!
Well, what can I say - the world is full of rediculous cowards and strange people!
I wish you all the best in the future, and I hope you get thru this thing in good health, and as a winner!!
Take Care!
Kind regards,
Andreas
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 23:49:49 -0500
From: craig jones <crjones@indiana.edu>
Subject: employment law
Sorry to clog your e-mail (I just sent the one re: Bloomington Herald Times) but I just went to another page of yours and got the indication that you feel certain you have no cause of action. You might. Just so you know I am not a complete bozo, I am a 3d year law student in the top ten percent at IU Bloomington. I am not familiar with Michigan employment law; it probably is an at-will employment state and you are correct, you have no 1st Am. protection. What you might have however is a species of contractual claim based on your employer's normal termination procedure. Employees who are terminated for one big thing (at least what is perceived as a big thing) compared to a series of small things (amounting generally to incompetence) are often fired without the normal warning/probation... sort of procedures. In several states, employee handbooks and even unpublished but routinely followed policies are considered to be part of the employment contract and employers are therefore bound by such policies. If your employer had a normal termination policy and failed to follow it in your case, this may (I stress MAY) create a cause of action for breach of contract. Again I am not familiar with Michigan law, nor have I been admitted to the bar (can't practice law yet), so I cannot advise you any further, but if you have yet to contact an attorney, I would at least make a phone call or two just to be sure.
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 13:47:55 -0800
From: FRED JOHNSON <f..johnson@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Newspaper
I read about you in the January 16 copy of the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville Tennessee. I can't see a thing wrong with your web site..It's like they say "if you don't like what you see ..change the channel" or if they think it's "questionable literature"..you don't have to read it..
Hope you get your job back.
Donna
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:48:31 -0800
From: Peter Argersinger-Fries <vatican@pacbell.net>
Subject: [Fwd: AM News Abuse Jan 17/18]
Dear Cameron:
You've got a very elegantly designed--and interesting--website.
I am also passing along to you the URL's for:
The most useful, intelligently written and well-designed web style I've found on the internet:
and the following font resources:
- http://people.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~kikita/
- http://tjup.truman.edu/dtr/
- http://www.worldwidemart/scripts/
- http://members.aol.com/mmqchome/fonts/fon
- http://www.fontsite.com/
Apologies if you are already aware of these sites.
By the way, I would hire you in a hot flash.
Kind regards!
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:48:02 -0800
From: john plotner <johnplot@netins.net>
Subject: Comment on your recent employment
I have reviewed you Home Page and some, not all, of the associated documents contained therein. If your past employer hasn't awakened to the facts of reality in current day life, you're much better off living in an open employment market.
I'm 72 years of age and, even at this time of life, have come to realize thatwe no longer live in horse and buggy days and must accept the fact that sexual comments and individual tastes dominate the Internet as well as television. There are certain elements that are not intended for minors but I believe that it is the responsibility of a parent to police that policy.
Good luck to you in your future.
From: "The Liberator" <liber8r@mcs.com>
To: <cameron@michweb.net>
Subject: SnowSex
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:20:08 -0600
Cameron:
My brother was cruising through CNN's web site and caught the story about you being fired. He sent me your web site URL and I just checked it out.
SnowSex was hilarious! I also was entertained by the Slurpies are From Heaven, even though it was a bit strange. You definitely have a sense for the extraordinary. :-)
I have come to the conclusion that you got one Hell of a raw deal--being fired for your WWW pages. I hope that you proceed with a lawsuit. I bet that you have a case.
In any case, maybe you can use this media attention to sell some of your work. Who knows.
Keep up the good work; I'm on your side.
