Employers watching Employees

In New Jersey the employers of a major company went onto MySpace.com and made a discussion forum about your place of work and invited all their employees to engage in conversation, the only thing the employees didn't know is was that the company was behind it. After the employees engaged in discussion and bad mouthed some of the head bosses at the job, they were soon fired, but the company sees nothing wrong with this.

The same thing happened with the popular restaurant in Hackensack, NJ, Houstons. The bar tenders engaged in the online discussion and once the owners of restaurant found out and read what they all had to say, anyone who part took in the bad mouthing was soon fired.

I personally think this is wrong, to fire someone for speaking their mind, especially when it was never intended to make its way back to the boss. Do you think this should be grounds or termination?

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