Man Sues After Explicit, Reply-All Work Email Lands Him in Some Very Hot Water
A former employee of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office is suing his workplace for wrongful termination—almost six months after he was fired for sending a bizarre and explicit message to his coworkers in an email thread.
Jovan Thomas, a former victim advocate at the DA’s office, was fired in January after he hit “reply all” and sent a sexually explicit email to his entire office—including District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
In an email thread planning an event commemorating Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and killed in 1998, Thomas sent his coworkers the message: “What color panties you have on.” The exchange was later leaked in photos posted to Twitter.