Webb

BACKGROUND

In March 2017, after a months-long recruitment process, Webb started in her position as a business development manager for DSM. Webb’s base salary was $180,000 per year, and she received a $15,000 signing bonus. Webb spent most of her time travelling and otherwise worked from home. During her first week of employment, Webb attended a company conference in Japan. She arrived late to the conference, and also arrived late to two events during the conference. Webb maintains she missed her connecting flight due to a weather delay and that her supervisor, Matt Marnell, preapproved her late arrival to the two events. In any case, Marnell was concerned about Webb’s apparent lack of professionalism at these events because she typed on her phone as he tried to introduce her to important colleagues. After the trip, Webb submitted various receipts that Marnell believed were efforts to obtain reimbursement for personal or family food expenses. The following month, in April, Webb e-mailed Marnell two draft presentations related to the planning of another company event. Marnell found the work to be “incomplete, unusable work product,” that “essentially shift[ed] responsibility to the…