An employee of a company that provides home care to seniors received an "Employee Warning" threatening discharge if there was not "marked improvement" in her performance at the end of the next four weeks. The employee believed that some of the allegations in the warning were false and possibly defamatory. She was asked to sign the report; instead, she told her supervisors that she had been advised to consult an attorney before making a formal response to the warning. Almost immediately thereafter, she was fired. The employee sued. What should the court decide? Why? (Porterfield v. Mascari II, Inc., 823 A.2d 590 (Md. 2003))