Downfall: BP worker sacked for Hitler meme wins $200,000 in compensation
by Michael McGowan from on (#56RTX)
BP ordered to pay Western Australia oil refinery worker for lost wages, after his parody of bosses got him fired
An oil refinery worker who was sacked for creating a Hitler parody of his bosses has been awarded $200,000 in compensation.
The employee, a technician on a BP refinery in Western Australia, was sacked after he used an oft-parodied scene from the 2004 film Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel about the final days of Hitler and Nazi Germany to depict his bosses during a tense wage negotiation.
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