However, there are occasions that I have encountered where employees have been terminated and filed suit and lost their cases due to their indirect behavior. A former co-worker posted a meme on her Facebook page publicly the day after a performance review that our boss considered as a direct threat. The meme involved a person stating that they smile and nod while their boss gives them constructive criticism, but what they are really doing is punching the person in the throat. This meme was accompanied by a caption that indirectly acknowledged that she was speaking of our boss when stating that this was how she felt yesterday in her performance review. In my opinion, when an