Office Birthday Party gone wrong
I wonder how that lawsuit would have faired in Louisiana. Kentucky is an at will state as well. I guess given the reasoning as "because of the events of the previous week." is probably what got the ruling. I bet if they just said "work performance" or "other" she would not have won the lawsuit.
Management that thinks employees must submit to their every whim as if they are some serf and the manager is a lord of some sort is so rampant in all of the worst places I have ever worked.
To summarize Marcus Buckingham, people don't leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.
Glad they got sued!