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A B.C. man is considering legal action after he was fired for a tweet he posted about his company's Christmas bonus.

Hussien Mehaidli, 27-years-old, from Burnaby, B.C. wasn't impressed by the $6 BBQ and scraper he received from Fastenal as a holiday gift and he took to his anonymous twitter account to complain.

Someone within the company spotted the tweet and Mehaidli was called in for a meeting the day before New Year's Eve.

CTV News is reporting that Mehaidli had already deleted the tweet but was fired on the spot during the meeting.

Fastenal CEO Dan Florness told a Minnesota newspaper Tuesday that Mehaidli's tweet was grounds for firing. The tweet read: “What kind of multi billion-dollar company gifts it's (sic) Canadian employees barbecue sauce as a holiday gift? Yet the USA employees stuff their face with an actual holiday gift box!”

Florness has since called the firing unfortunate, “calmer heads didn’t prevail over this.”

However, Florness says the company’s reaction followed the law. And while he admitted that the firing may have been “an overreaction” and he may have responded differently, he said he was “not going to second guess” his staff’s decision.

Mehaidli has now obtained legal advice and is contemplating a wrongful dismissal claim.

-with files from CTV News and Associated Press