So did he send the email from his work account or from a personal account while at the office?
Why not? People write the council about all kinds of things that piss them off ... and I'll bet often times a lot worse than what he said. I wonder why she felt compelled to to snitch him off? Why didn't she just blow him off like they do everyone else?
Don't you think her actions were a little over the top. I mean, reporting her cons uent to his employer?Blood on her hands?
San Antonio District 7 Councilwoman Elena Guajardo
I don't think so.
It was a vindictive act and caused the guy to loose [sic] his job, be labeled a racist and commit suicide.
Probably from his work account. The article indicated that he was terminated for violating the computer policy.
WOAI54 year old George erson, an executive with the San Antonio based global engineering and construction firm Zachry Construction Corporation, committed suicide today, after an angry e-mail he sent to his city council member complaining about a night club in his neighborhood was leaked to the media and prompted Zachry to fire him for unauthorized use of the company's e-mail system.
Anybody find a copy of the complete e-mail online?
Racist?
Blood on her hands?
San Antonio District 7 Councilwoman Elena Guajardo
I don't think so.
I am waiting for some to photoshop THIS one...Looks like potential Troll Forum Material
I think the councilwoman's actions were vindictive and wrong. Why didn't she contact Mr. erson first instead of "tattling on him to his employer? I hope she has many sleepless nights over this.
I'm going to send her an e-mail, but I have to wait until I get home, since I'm working for a state agency!
I hope we don't end reading about you in a few days.
Working, are ya?
If that's the worst part then it looks like she read a bit much into what he wrote.
I would like to know what incident set off Mr. erson. I would guess that lots of stuff has been happening and he finally got fed up and fired off an angry e-mail.
Considering that he sent the second e-mail regarding confidentialty, I would hazard a guess that he realized he maybe shouldn't have been so vocal.
Either way, I can certainly understand his frustration. It's a very sad situation all around.
Sucks.
Let's all forward the obituary and funeral arrangements to councilwoman Guajardo, shall we?
Let's say you live near a club like that. You pay property taxes out the ass. You've had it and vent to your local elected representative. Maybe there's been a bunch of cars and homes broken into in the area. Now instead of at least a form letter response your representative opts to rat you out to your employer.
I do agree that the individual should never have used his work account to send such a complaint, but it was just that, a complaint. So the man worked for a respected company. So what? He made it clear that was his own personal opinion. Unless the email (or prior ones) was full of racial epithets and threats, I don't see the justification for her going to his employer.
What happened was extreme, but it's a natural result of the councilwoman not using reasonable discretion. If she thought the email was bigoted, then she should've let the man know that, or better yet, ignored him.
Here's a prior story. It provides a little more light on what the email contained...
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/met....17f524e4.html
Zachry is stung by another e-mail
Web Posted: 02/02/2006 12:00 AM CST
Laura E. Jesse
Express-News Staff Writer
A 27-year employee of Zachry Construction Corp. was fired this week for sending an e-mail from the company's server to City Councilwoman Elena Guajardo with what she called "very racial and very discriminatory" comments.
It was the second time in eight months that a Zachry employee has embarrassed the company by sending an e-mail containing disparaging remarks about various parts of the city.
"When I read it I thought, 'Another e-mail from Zachry. What is going on?'" Guajardo said Wednesday.
George erson, who worked in the company's procurement department, wrote to complain about Graham Central Station, a large nightclub on Fredericksburg Road. It's across the street from the subdivision where he lives.
erson wrote that the club attracts "undesirable, low class elements from bad parts of the city into our upper class part of the city for which we pay a very large tax burden in which to live to be safe and away from such elements."
He also wrote that the entertainment at the club "is of a lude, lascivious, low class, debaucheristic, criminalistic, riot insistic, anarchistic nature. Thereby inciting the absolute worst behavior from the worst possible type of patron."
Those patrons, he went on, come from the "lower class bad parts of the city" and that the club should be forced to relocate to one of those areas, "thereby containing all of these very serious problems within the areas in which these types of criminal debaucheric behavior occur on a regular basis."
Contacted at home Wednesday, erson refused to comment.
Vicky Waddy, Zachry's public affairs director, said the company was disappointed to learn of the e-mail and that it was a violation of the company's policy on computer use.
Last summer, Ken Wolf, who was vice president of Metropolitan Resources Inc., a Zachry subsidiary, resigned after he sent an e-mail through a company computer in May saying the SBC Center, now AT&T Center, was built "in the ghetto" because of a lack of leadership in city government.
Waddy said the company will increase its training on the computer-use policy and remind people about its e-mail policy.
The fallout from Wolf's May e-mail included a public apology from H.B. Zachry Jr., who heads the company, and a community effort to scrap plans to give Zachry Realty Inc. $1.9 million in tax money for a Staybridge Suites Hotel near Sunset Station.
Eventually the company agreed to give $750,000 to the East Side's Community Economic Revitalization Agency to help lure jobs to the East Side, and they trimmed the original request for tax money to $1 million.
"The bottom line is it's not the Zachrys, but that's what concerns me: It came from their company," said Guajardo, whose district is heavily Hispanic. "We have a beautiful city and we can't pit one side of town against another."
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I don't think she has blood on her hands at all...at least not anymore than Bush does.
He probably also called her a . That's the real reason why she was pissed
The dude musta lived in OAK HILLS. That would make him white.
Who cares what his race was? If that's the worst of what he sent, it looks like she extrapolated a bit much about him.
Oh-my, Kori. You hit the whole thing on the head. What part was racist.
Nothing he said was racist. Could it be that the councilman wanted to
paint him racist? What a shame. What a shame. He, the writer, said what
he thought and believed.
For those that care, here is the email address for the lady councilwoman.
[email protected]
Just maybe you would like to tell her how right or wrong she is.
I think this man had more issues than anyone will really know and the stress of life may have caused him to write that email in haste.
I know I've had my meltdowns and said things I shouldn't have been meant at the time.
Should she have done what she did? Hind sight is 20/20 as they say.
I heard them talking about this on KTSA this morning and was shocked when I heard of the tragic events of today.
God Bless them all.
http://sanantoniolightning.com/zsuicide.html
Here's the e-mail.
Man, there is nothing racially charged about that e-mail. I agree with Kori in that it's class-based, not necessarily race.
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