A BP refinery worker sacked for mocking the company's approach to bargaining over pay through a popular Hitler meme has had a decisive win after the company took the case all the way to the full bench of the Federal Court.
Scott Tracey, who worked at a BP oil refinery near Perth, was fired in January 2019 after he posted a video to an employee Facebook group using a popular meme format, where humorous subtitles are overlaid on footage of Hitler screaming in his bunker in the 2004 filmA still from one of a vast number of Hitler Downfall parodies, with actor Bruno Ganz in the lead role, on the internet.
In the movie, the parodied scene shows Hitler ranting at his generals in German as they tell him how dire his position has become. Mr Tracey's subtitles referred to what he saw as BP's weak bargaining position in pay negotiations that had been under way since 2017 under the title "Hitler Parody EA Negotiations not going the [company's] way".
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Imagine actually thinking a decade old meme is meant to be taken literally.
this is one of the best ... WTF are BP thinking
Our govt is acting like nazis
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