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Accu-Weather, Inc.    [Note:  The name has been changed to AccuWeather]
619 W. College Avenue
State College, Pennsylvania 16801
814/237-0309 * FAX 814/238-1339

Joel N. Meyers, President                Elliot Abrams, Sr. Vice President
Barry Lee Myers, Exec. Vice President    Evan A. Myers, Sr. Vice President
Michael A. Steinberg, Sr. Vice President Joseph P. Sobel, Sr. Vice President



                                 October 17, 1995


Mr. Robert W. Clark
[P. O. Box 222
 State College, PA 16804-0222--this represents my current address]

Dear Rob:

When we met the other day you had requested that I send you a
letter reviewing specifically the reasons for your termination
from employment at AccuWeather.

As you know, when we met on Wednesday, October 4th and I showed
you the various messages containing obscene language, which 
could also be interpreted as threatening and intimidating that
were originating from our facilities.  [1]  You acknowledged
the fact that on work time you were preparing and sending 
these messages from our facilities out on the Internet.  [2] 
This was the third incident in several months of misbehavior
at work and I viewed it to be sufficiently serious, on its
own to terminate your employment.  [3]  When coupled with 
prior infractions this decision was further supported.

Therefore, the reasons for termination can be considered
as follows:

1.  Prior incidents of misconduct at work for which you had
    been given specific verbal warnings and in fact, the last
    time I met with you I told you that I could not have a
    situation recur and that was the final warning.  [4]

2.  An incident of misconduct did occur involving the above
    mentioned profanity being sent out on the Internet from
    our computer facilities.  You admitted responsibility
    for it.  [5]

3.  These activities besides reflecting upon AccuWeather and
    placed [sic] AccuWeather in a bad light and could have 
    potentially lead [sic] to legal liability of the company.

4.  These activities were conducted on work time when you 
    should have been devoting yourself to AccuWeather tasks
    rather than consuming many hours of time on the Internet.  [6]

We consider these actions to be intentional and willful 
misconduct.  [7]  It is therefore, with regret that I felt
we had no choice but to terminate your employment immediately
as of October 4, 1995.  A check has been prepared and is
available to you to pay for the work that you performed 
through that day plus accumulated comp time and vacation
time.  It is available for you to pick up at your leisure.

                     
                                 Very truly yours,




                                 Barry Lee Myers

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[]  This is very cleverly worded to appear other than it is.
     I never acknowledged sending any threatening email whatever.
     I refuse to give credence to the notion that the posts 
     I had made to alt.angst could be interpreted as threatening
     or intimidating by even the veriest of idiots, and these
     seemed to comprise the large part of the posts which I 
     was presented.  It is also neglected that the only message
     which could be interpreted as threatening or intimidating
     is a message I never sent. 

[]  Furthermore, none visibly emerged from
     AccuWeather, and numerous of the messages were in fact
     not originated from AccuWeather facilities at all.  Those
     which were not could certainly not be considered, and the
     others would, I assume, have to be judged on a message-
     by-message basis.

[]  While I am certain that should there ever be a hearing
     concerning these 'several months of misbehavior,' during
     which I had volunteered to work Christmas and Thanksgiving,
     and never once refused additional hours or to change shifts
     on no notice whatever, as AccuWeather often does, they 
     will be able to produce something, the only incident in
     which I was ever warned by a direct superior of anything
     of consequence was in regard to checking my voice-mail.
     Never did I received a written warning concerning any
     of these incidents, and I don't remember any other verbal
     warnings.  Certainly, if one is to deliver a verbal warning
     it ought to be recognizable as such.
     
[]  I assume this is a reference to the specific matter of
     voice-mail.  This was, as is well-known, immediately
     rectified when brought to my attention.

[]  I believe 'an incident' is quite unclear, as earlier
     he had alleged 'various messages,' which would indicate
     several 'incidents,' had it been true.  Therefore, I 
     can't respond to this, as I have no idea which 'incident'
     is alleged to be misconduct, or, for that matter,  
     'profanity.'  I will further note that profanity and
     obscenity were fairly common elements of language in
     my work environment, particularly when working on the
     archaic and outdated equipment used by AccuWeather, 
     which requires continual jury-rigging and quick-fix
     solutions.

[]  I had made no secret of spending time on the Internet.
     Indeed, on most occasions that I came in for a shift
     change, it was very common for the person I was relieving
     to be looking around on the World Wide Web while others
     who were off the clock played Doom or Magic.  No direct 
     superior of mine in my department had ever questioned
     this, and I had even discussed it with coworkers, specifically
     an incident in which someone claiming to support a racist
     organization called the "National Alliance" had sent 
     unsolicited email to tens of thousands of people.

[]  I will note only that 'willful misconduct' is a legally-
     recognized phrase given force by, among others, the 
     Unemployment Compensation, thus mandating its use 
     despite the fact that it is hardly clear whether or
     not this has been established in a reasonable manner
     to be the case.