So you don’t like your coworker, or maybe you think that she isn’t as good at her job as you are… Let the lesson learned by Wisconsin weatherman Zach Brown be a lesson to all of us: if your roommate starts sending nasty, harassing emails to her, make him stop before you lose your job (or end up in court).
Brown claims he didn’t think the emails — 21 of them over the course of two years — qualified as harassment. He said he knew his roommate, Jonathan Edwards, was sending them and that he had asked him to stop, but that he took them “with a grain of salt.”
At a court hearing held last week, Brown said Edwards sent the emails to his morning news co-host Amy DuPont because he thought DuPont had been mean to him. Edwards added that the emails were intended as “constructive criticism.”
DuPont said the author of the e-mails wrote that he was sick of hearing about her child and that she should go on extended maternity leave. The author, who signed the e-mails “Mario,” wrote that she was terrible at her job but that co-host and meteorologist Zach Brown was great, she testified.
At the hearing granting DuPont a restraining order, Brown was ordered to stay at least 100 feet away from DuPont and her family for at least five years. Since the two worked side-by-side hosting the Daybreak morning news, he might have had to get creative to adhere to the restraining order.
Luckily, Brown also got fired, making it much easier…
