Please discuss the extent to which the company’s action in this case was ethical.

An employee at a major food retailer wrote a weblog (blog) and, in one of his writings, complained that his boss
wouldn’t let him go home when he felt sick and that his district manager refused to promote him because of his
dreadlocks. His blog named the employer, but the employee didn’t use his real name. Although all blogs are on
the Internet, the employee claims that his was low profile and that it didn’t show up when doing a Google
search of his name or the company. Still, the employer somehow discovered the blog, figured out the employee’s
real name, and fired him for “speaking ill-will of the company in a public domain.”

Please discuss the extent to which the company’s action in this case was ethical.